Over There: Remembering WWI ~ Music by George M. Cohan, Sung by Billy Murray

[bigfilmhat]

Wasn't one of the lyrics- "fuck a bear, I'll fight any night in my underwear"? Why was that lyric left out of this version?

[AAZZazA123]

Oh History class...

[RedFootballJV]

Love this video!!

[riolop1972]

this song got stuck in my head cuz of history class lol but wat a jumpy tune to it! it must have motivated millions at the time!

[Mann0802]

One of the better things to come out of apush

[soadanddisturbed000]

History class brought me here, and I'm pretty happy for that!

[SooBeautyFull]

@iluvdrakeandjosh Wow, now don't we get engaged in our studies? Hey, go to page 167. Now tell me, isn't that the most hideous person you ever did see?

[SooBeautyFull]

@iluvdrakeandjosh Wow, now don't we get engaged in our studies? Hey, go to page 167. Now tell me, isn't that the most hideous person you have ever seen?

[SooBeautyFull]

Thumbs up if your AP U.S. History book brought you here.

[iluvdrakeandjosh]

@SooBeautyFull i wish i could thumbs this up more than once.

[MrFernando8419]

hi, where can i download this music. I need it for a project for schol. Thx :)

[TheCGvids]

thumbs up if your social studies teacher brought you here

[thefelipebrm]

Over theere, fuck a beear! Long live jimmy darmody

[foucault1020]

Black Jack Pershing! Amazing- thanks

[YesImInThisVid12]

thumbs up if they need more ww1 movies, and yes boardwalk empire is amazing =]

[Mysterwright]

@YesImInThisVid12 My great grandpa fought in WWI. His parents had to go and pull him out because he was underage. Its a good thing too. He was the only member of that unit to not perish. Knock on wood they got there in time.

[zotlerg]

"GO COMPARE, GO COMPARE!!!"

[currisauce14]

My great grandfather fought in this war. He was excepted into Harvard but he was drafted to fight, so Harvard was postponed until after the war. He was so physically and mentally affected by the gases in the trenches that when he came back he was to unhealthy and out of it to actually go back to Harvard and finish. He ended up working in a factory, on an assembly line.

[kolboy757]

@sonofhimmler1 James Darmody was my Great Grandfather who fought in the 3rd Division in WWI. He lost his life at a early age. He had fallen to his death in 1921 as a contractor in Boston, MA. It's so happens its the same name as the guy from boardwalk empire.

[sonofhimmler1]

wow boardwalk did not bring me here great show but unlike most people i actually now what the Great War was and who we fought and for what reasons read a book and turn off the tv you ignorant fools

[patelaa0414]

@sonofhimmler1 "know" not "now", just enjoy the music and shut it

[jamaldhard]

For those of you who don't know, Johnny got his gun IS fictional! Vaneee33E is just a dumbass

[MENLYMENN]

I used to fight in world war 1... then i took an arrow to the knee

[made2trick]

@MENLYMENN i used to be gay like you... but i took an arrow to the knee :)

[stepennwolf]

@made2trick Ok Mr. Whiterun guard lol

[realwaluigi]

@MENLYMENN 1. you are a faggot for making that joke

2. shouldn't it be “a bullet to the knee” ?

[vaneee333E]

:( so sad if you read johnny got his gun...well he got his gun and.. :( now he's terriblly injured and uhh :[ i feel soo bad cuz the book is great but nonfiction soo its a real guy :( read the book its really nice

[kolboy757]

R.I.P James Darmody

1896-1921

[sonofhimmler1]

@kolboy757 wow what about RIP to the millions that died in the great war you ignorant fool

[NejiTentenlova]

I most definitely blame Mrs. Hayduk for getting me addicted to this.

[Brodey23]

R.I.P James Dormondy

[Tankballer]

@Brodey23 That's Darmody, pal!



[Xenda]

Thumbs up if Boardwalk Empire brought you here!

[FFMSmit]

@Xenda hahah for sure it brought me here

[sonofhimmler1]

thumbs way down i mean history should have brought your ignorant ass here

[fattyMcGee97]

Over there or go compare?

[peopleperson235]

Dear Mr. L,

thanks for getting this stuck in my head...really appreciate

Your 3rd hour student,

Kaitlin

[MrFromthedark]

@lowtone10 it was a favorite marching song among the American expeditionary Force. It asking helped sell Liberty Bonds.

[rollipolli17]

i have to sing this for soial studies ahhhh!!!!!!

[maxpowers518]

Send the word over there?

Well, everbody knows that the bird is the word! A-well a bird bird bird b-bird's the word!

[NotaDino1]

To think my grand-father who died when I was 16, served in the British Royal Navy in BOTH WWI and WWII and he ran away to serve in WWI lying about his age to serve as mine sweeper after HIS father's ship was sunk by a German U-Boat torpedoed in the Dardenelles. R.I.P. Grandpa as you were a most amazing man and I miss listening to your stories and I miss YOU!!!

[peopleperson235]

@NotaDino1 was his fathers ship the Lusitania?

[HGM1138]

Happy Armistice Day, all. Remembering those who died in the Great War, and in all wars; and saluting those who lived. God Bless American Soldiers.

[lowtone10]

gocompare

[quique7017]

luisitania!

[UFOJockey]

Doing a report on Woodrow Wilson, this is getting me in the mood.

[madking241]

Is this on itunes?."....

[Epicness54Troll]

15 people are Krauts.

[hughesms]

Go Compare!!!!!

[BROCKLESNARFAN1980]

How about over here ? LOL ;)

Thanks to the us and to the brave soldiers that gave up their lives to help us .

R.I.P. guy's

[gupta889]

Proud to be a Yankee.

[typex1945]

アメリカらしい自由な曲だな。歌詞も簡潔で、メロディもわくわく­させるようなものだ。

・・・悔しいが、日本がアメリカに負けた理由が少しわかるな。

[kingbball7]

@typex1945 You're just mad because we nuked the fuck out of your country.

[typex1945]

@kingbball7

確かに原爆は仕方がなかったというような発言をしてしまうと干さ­れてしまう風潮が日本は根強くあります。

でも、僕自体は原爆は仕方がなかったと思います。もしも、原爆が­落とされなかったらポツダム宣言を受諾した８月１４日は、無条件­降伏は決して訪れなかっただろうと思うし、逆に京都や皇居にまで­爆弾が落とされ、天皇家も途絶えていたかもしれない。日本国はカ­ルタゴのようになっていたでしょう。

まあとにかく、原爆のことを差し引いても、アメリカは日本にとっ­てこれからも心強いパートナーだと僕は信じている。

といってもまだ高校生ですが・・・（笑）

[BigDaddyDJD]

WWI if ever there was an unnecessary war. what a shame.

[MRBIGDADDY19321]

over there

[GFar7491]

I read an item from a WWI veteran who stated the moral picked up in Britain as the Yanks arrived. Many were farm boys stout and strong and the Europeans were in awe of their physical condition. I believe the same can be said of WWII. With the demise of our agricultural base we have lost those stout and strong young men. However, hats off to those who volunteer today because it is an all volunteer military.

[1legomaster]

Its weird to think that all these young men are all probably now dead... sush great guys. Served in war... guess thats what the fututre generation will think about us 100 years from now.

[JohnPiperBoots]

America needs men that are men and ladies that are ladies again. Semper Fidelis! USMC 1974 -1981

[GarshardJeVard]

Cool

[j2n]

Sung by Bill Murray! What a patriot.

[oldmusic138]

@j2n not the actor the singer who died in 1954

[elmolsen]

this reminds me of my great grand father who served in WWI

[samnichols26]

@AntiMTVMovement No, and I'm an American and I've never heard anyone get offended at the word yank before.

[AntiMTVMovement]

Are there people who find this song offensive? Just asking because of the inclusion of the word yank.

[TheWaarivzrach]

It's amazing to see the young men it these pictures and think that now they have all died and that the war was almost 100 years ago. God rest their souls.

[ewd76]

@TheWaarivzrach

With youtube and the rest of the internet people don't have much excuse for not knowing historical culture of the last 100 years. Nothing's really "before our time" anymore.

[patandkatesma]

This is cool, thanks!

[Tay5551]

@Jllavin I'm just saying it's an interesting to compare our nation 100 years ago and now.

[drewman1150]

I JUST LISTENED TO THIS IN HISTORY CLASS!!! Almost a little too catchy, though.

[AdorkableKoters]

if some people think that america is dumb and stupid, i dont agree. i am american, german, polish, irish, french, african, mohawk, cherokee, siox, italian, british, and hungrain. jsut because america won the war with the allies doesnt mean a gosh dang thing! jsut remeber idoitic people who think past is more important than the present, theres always three sides to the story, yours mine and the truth.

[CALUCATCEPS]

AHA, i KNEW id heard go compare somewhere before!

[catkiller60]

why does everyone seem to move so fast in ww1 videos and footage

[ECWChris94]

@catkiller60 The camera reels during this time were hand cranked. During the war the ideal frame rate was around 12 frames per second, which by today's standards are incredible slow, this is why we see it as quick and jerky movement. 

[Tay5551]

"And we won't come back,till it's over over there."-America in World War I

54% of Americans support end of war in Afghanistan-America Today

[jllavin2]

@Tay5551 yes cause WWI and Afghanistan or totally the same thing.

[rock1262]

the guy that wrote this song recive the medal of honor for writing this

[WirePalidan]

@rock1262 Actually George M. Cohan won the "Congressional Gold Medal". Which alongside the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" is the highest Civilian award in the United States. (Neither to be confused with the Congressional Medal of Honor which is the highest Military decoration awarded by the United States government).

[PiLoAb]

@WirePalidan Actually there is no Congressional Medal of Honor. The correct name is simply Medal of Honor.

[lowtone10]

@rock1262 i dont think there are any british people who would thank him. search for gocompare advert

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

@lowtone10 ? This is not some dumb advert.

[lowtone10]

@EasyCompanyAirborne no, but the tune is used in a dumb advert

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

@lowtone10 Incredible. It was the main song in both WW1 and WW2 for the American boys going off to war.

[RGRIMOWEN]

GO COMPARE

GO COMPARE

[MrRobTyner]

oh and all those other millions of non-jewish, gypsies, mentally challenged, and just plain old americans hitlers armies killed, P.S. Frank Buckles was a fascist prick who should burn in hell, he was descended from slave holders, he thought dark skinned were racially inferior, and was a "proud member" of sons of the confederacy

[lakersrdabest]

@MrRobTyner and saying weve been that way since our inception, well we where not involved in an international war until 1812, then we had a war with mexico in 1846, then we had a war with spain in 1898. so until ww1 in which we joined in 1919, the 143rd year america was a country, the military was only used 3 times internationally for a grand total of 5 years. Thats 3% of its existence

[MrRobTyner]

seriously find out what happened when johnny got his gun over there, he ended up a brain and a torso kept alive for 36 years by machines, that whole sinking of american ships aint the reason america was in wwI, read your goddamn history, america is a bloodthirsty empire that's killed wave of innocent people after wave of innocent people since ints inception, WWI did not produce one single gain for humanity ever!, unless you count WWII and the subsequent slaughter of 6mil jews

[lakersrdabest]

@MrRobTyner before you go calling america a bloodthirsty empire that has killed wave after wave of innocent people, why dont you go look at european history. they where doing that for about half a millennium

[Tinkerbell32197]

to those 13 people who don't like this-SCREW YOU! this is one of the most famous american songs . How could u not like it?

[16MattC]

Such a great song. However, Is it me or does it sound familiar to the "Go Compare" advert?

[AidanLunn]

@16MattC It is what the Go Compare advert song is based on.

[kingbball7]

13 German Soldiers don't like this song.

[pwnd448]

Nazi Germany probably never would've existed if America didn't enter WW1 and get the victory for the allies:(

[oldmusic138]

@pwnd448 well you see it was france that messed up America had a reasonable peace plan but France went against it and unreasonably punished germany causeing all the tension afterwards

[hunterkiller232134]

@oldmusic138 And that lead to Hitler's hatred of France and desire to humiliate them as totally as possible.

[airforcepuddy]

This song is stuck in my head now from my World history class :) almost memorized lyrics. Insanity. 

[AidanLunn]

@airforcepuddy You don't want to live here in Britain, then. It's the song for an extremely annoying advertising campaign for Go Compare car insurance.

[MrRobTyner]

you bet your fat american asses that would have produced something far greater and more truly democratic than capitalism post WWI and today, but the people wont be fooled any more, we've learned our lessons, no more wars, no more bull shit, workers of the world unite!

[agent4051]

@MrRobTyner Screw you commie, our founding fathers didn't fight for a communist or socialist country.

[ShadowsOfMoonlight]

@agent4051 The founding fathers of America fought for a democracy. Which we are not. Common misperception, but America is actually a constitutional republic. Just a little FYI

[agent4051]

@ShadowsOfMoonlight Then how come our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a Republic, and our Declaration of Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy"?

[ShadowsOfMoonlight]

@agent4051 ~shrugs. I've never really been interested in politics and government, but I've been told pretty much my entire life that America was born of and for democracy, and is a democracy. Tell you the truth, what you said about the pledge didn't even occur to me until you pointed it out. It's just that when people talked about governments "by the people," it seemed to directly imply "democracy."

[agent4051]

@ShadowsOfMoonlight Yeah, I use to think that the US was supposed to be a democracy, but when I was in middle school I took american history and found out that it was supposed to be a republic.

[themedlins27]

@MrRobTyner its funny because your gay

[MrRobTyner]

@themedlins27 no its funny because your an ignorant dumbshit

[MrRobTyner]

Respond to this video... no its funny because your an igrnorant dumbshit

[themedlins27]

@MrRobTyner go fuck yourself you fat gay commie

[hotdogman67]

@MrRobTyner

All fucking commies should hang.

[malofa99]

@hotdogman67 Just because someone thinks the government deserves more power, it doesn't mean they should die. I'm wholeheartaedly against communism, but still...

[ShadowsOfMoonlight]

@hotdogman67 Just wondering...why exactly do you hate Communists? Do you have any real reason, or do you just say that because it was how we were brought up coming out of the Cold War and hating on Soviet Communists?

[MrRobTyner]

Just imagine if there had been a true people's revolution in capitalist england and america like what happened in russia during the same time, it didnt work as planned there because they hadnt yet evolved beyond feudalism, but in capitalist america

[MrRobTyner]

yes johnny, get you gun, unite with your brothers on the other side of the trenches and kill the aristocratic capitalist officers who sacrifice the lives of the proletariat for the interest of their immoral capitalist depravity!

[LiberalJerseyman]

What a horrible song. Don't let the positivity fool you. 

[MissGoldenDreams13]

@AdorkableKoters: I loved that book when I was younger! (As a female pre-teen history nerd, I was obsessed with the "Dear America" series.)

[mercury82]

12 people are card-carrying communists!

[LiberalJerseyman]

@mercury82 WTF? That doesn't even make sense!

[AdorkableKoters]

i just love this song!!! i read the song in the book "when christmas comes agian" the ww1 diary od simone spencer.

[hotdogman67]

Great video. =]

[righteouswolf1]

Now THIS is music!

[donuts71]

I have this on an Edison Amberol Cylinder and still play it on an Edison player (circa 1925) and it sounds just like this...love it!

[MissLauri26]

I hate how Go Compare wrecked this. Shame on them.

[rsfreakofnature1]

0:45 wow not to be mean ik this is how times were back then...., but rape?

[ShieldsStudios]

@rsfreakofnature1 Troll harder bro.

[narutofightindreamer]

FRANK BUCKLES, the very last living WW I Vet of all time and any country just passed away this week...........A wonderful "Pulitzer Prize Quality" article named "Farewell To A Generation" on the AP Website honored him as the very last of his kind beautifully and speaking bluntly on how WW I is still affecting us to this very day.

[AndrewPPalmer]

The United States had no business fighting in Europe during WWI. The US lost over 116,000 men (roughly 10,000 per month). Even if every American ship in the world were sunk we may have lost 10,000 TOTAL. President Wilson caved in with the goal of global utopia. Nice try you Ivy League nincompoop!

[Hobojedi]

@AndrewPPalmer Well, only about 53,000 brave, American souls died, and the rest were wounded; and even then, it's trivial compared to the death toll of other nations during the war.

[buyfarmfresheggs]

@AndrewPPalmer AMEN! If every nation had minded its own business, the war would have been a 3 week battle between Austria and the Serb terrorists, and the 20th century would have looked an awful lot different.

[LiberalJerseyman]

@AndrewPPalmer Not to mention that Britain was the real enemy.

[TrojanSkyCop]

R.I.P. and God bless, Cpl Buckles, and thank you for your service and sacrifice. End of an era.

[NewWaveFan1]

RIP Frank Buckles the last doughboy. General Pershing is waiting for you to report for duty at the gates.

[autobotjazz1972]

@NewWaveFan1

Indeed , FRank buckles has sure done his time in hell , heaven awaits him.

[TheWaarivzrach]

@NewWaveFan1 Amen

[payt54639]

@NewWaveFan1 Amen. rest in peace Mr. Buckles.

[bigwillyg1]

@NewWaveFan1

To all the Doughboys.

[johnmburt1960]

@NewWaveFan1 I would prefer to think that Private Buckles has finally felt free to stand down.

[NewWaveFan1]

@johnmburt1960 It's a figure of speech he's the last to go through the gates to heaven to see his old buddies and his long time friend Pershing.

[ajferet]

RIP Mr. Frank Buckles. Went to war once as soldier, once as civilian , then moved to a farm and stayed there.

[NickTann]

Now I know who wrote that bl00dy Go Compare song!

[UFOJockey]

I LOVE THIS SONG! I'm not really pro war but it's great for games like fallout and such. Can't find the Billy Murray version on iTunes, help?

[mrfreeman117]

The thing i hate most about WW1 was how its ending, specifically the punishment of Germany, was the cause of WW2. If we had followed Wilsons plan, and did what we did after WW2, work to rebuild all damage, rather than punish the offenders, then Hitler wouldn't have been recived as universally as he was. It's the perfect example of why revenge isn't the best option. Stupid Allies.

[hunterkiller232134]

@mrfreeman117 Alternately, if Neville had the balls to stop Hitler when he was blatantly violating the Treaty, then WWII wouldn't have happened.

[mrfreeman117]

@hunterkiller232134 Yeah, it's like the one Hitler Downfall Parody "Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodys being removed from Youtube" said

"Google's basically doing the same thing the british did in 1937: They're doing nothing while these fucking Nazis start destroying the world!"

[TheNoah1999]

@mrfreeman117 You be dissin the Allies? NAZI IN PRESENCE. NAZI IN PRESENCE.

[Ninjadude2012]

the only thing i hear when people argue on youtube is " by cocks bigger than yours... no mines bigger". a strange but true analigy........ great song

[Rave7557]

BOTH Countries kick ass.

End argument.

[xNathanDeex]

go compare, go compare !!!

[NBGD22]

high cost for true heroes watch?v=5eODLtDz4IM&feature=re­lated

[legonatter105]

this is a good song.

[underlinedbluetext]

I'll GO! and I vote D.

[sugarcube440]

This propaganda is so sad. World War I was completely and utterly pointless, just a way for the governments of each participating country to get back at their rivals at the expense of such a huge loss of life. Not to mention it caused World War II, despite World War I being the "War to end all wars"

[ihmen]

@sugarcube440 yes world war I was very pointless, but i wouldnt say it was "just a way for the governments of each participating country to get back at their rivals". it started when archduke franz ferdinand got killed, so the major powers just used this as an excuse to use their military because up until that point all these countries were building up their military and they wanted to test it out. but they got trapped in a bad situation that they couldnt get out of, (trench warfare).

[legonatter105]

@sugarcube440 it was the blodiest war ever.

[legonatter105]

@sugarcube440 ww1 was the bloodiest war ever and its not propaganda its a song that they r singing to encourage ppl to join the army i know im in 7th grade.

[Shadesbane43]

@legonatter105 Actually, it wasn't the bloodiest war in history. It was for its time, but there's this little war called World War II that's the greatest loss of life in human history. And you just about defined propaganda there in your comment. You'd hear it or see it, and then want to do something you wouldn't if it hadn't been for that. Propaganda isn't necessarily bad.

[keinaan12345]

@legonatter105 Uhh WW2 was the bloodiest war ever. 70 million dead. Millions more injured.

[sugarcube440]

@legonatter105 that's great, i'm in 10th grade and we're studying propaganda. this is propaganda. and no, world war II was the bloodiest war ever, about 16 million people died in world war I and around 60 million died in world war II. i do believe you're missing the whole undertone of the song.

[carsmasher]

The last America WWI veteran died just a few months ago. There are no more left now. My Grandfather and his two brothers were all there in the Great War. One, my Greatuncle Sgt. Artie Manco was decoraded with the DSC for his service.

[TheWaarivzrach]

Its amazing to think that of the millions that fought this war there are only 3 alive today and that those who died in that war died almost 100 years ago.

[AlkaanUncertain]

@TheWaarivzrach It truly is. In my lifetime the same will happen to the veterans of World War II and Korea. Tempus Fugit.

[HPismyfuturehusband]

hey, but ya know what? despite all of this arguing..

It's a long way to Tipperary.

[20ace07]

YOU CAN BE SURE WHEN YOU INSURE WITH GO COMPARE!

[20ace07]

GO COMPARE!!

[20ace07]

GO COMPARE!

[50sguy1]

America, Britain, France, Canada, and Australia for the win.

[Rac665]

Happy Armistice/Veteran Day everyone!

[galacnor]

Let us remember the men who fought this war as we pass over the threshold from memory to history. As the last of them die the war will fade into history as a war of immense suffering and needless destruction the only lead to the start of a second more terrifying and hostile war.

[Starkisnumbaa1]

great music

[Thomasinoke]

wtf bad song!

Gimme metal!!!

\m/

@Thomasinoke It's music hall styled from 93 years ago. The metal from those years would be shrapnel scything you to the stinking mud. To my friends I say, "It's Chinatown, Jake."