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  • Forget about politic. Listen good song.

  • Im from the UK and have many friends in the states especially texas, i love this song as it reminds me of my good friends! and as a liverpool supporter footy (soccer) supporters sing this song but obviously change the words haha! not that anyones arsed like!!!!

  • I've noticed alot of far right rascists have hijacked the cause of dixie but instead of accusing the north of being rascist too, just accept that there was rascism every where back then.. now there isn't unite with your black comrades and over throw the centalised federal government.!!

  • i hope they let women fight in the next civil war. set me on top of a building with a Maw Duess and let me pop a few Yankee's off. little sister dont miss when she aims her gun

  • Check you history. You'll find the North had and has plenty of racism. The war wasn't all about slavery . It had a lot to do with economics.

    One of my great great grandfathers faught for the North and there is written documents how he testified against a group of Nothern soldiers that were killing slaves just for the sake of killing.

    There were alot of good people in the south that didn't beleive in slavery and lot of Yankees that did. 

    Dig deep into your history before you judge

  • "And like all guilty men, you try to rewrite your history."

    Iron Man 2 was so so, but I find this quote applies to so many contemporary situations. Often times people are so desperate to justify the horrible deeds their ancestors committed, as if doing that somehow will justify their own existence.

    Well, the folly of humanity never ceases to amaze.

  • Wow.

    Awesome. When our nation was at war with itself.

  • 동요로 먼저 들어서 그런지 너무 정겹고 듣기 좋네요.

    감상 잘 하고 갑니다.

  • yankees- apart from "fanfare for the common man" -have you actually written ANY music. This is Irish. Your national anthem is English. And you wonder why us " foreighners" get a little tired of you all

  • Im a European and a nationalist. And almost all americans ive met, i think, are a bit strange. The exception is those coming from the South america. But its not just you in the south witch get called racist, those in Europe get called too by leftist and liberal freaks, when somon refuses to treat an pass-board-european as an real european.

  • This stirs my soul. Thanks to all our veterans for their service.

  • The civil war was for economical reasons, second it was social liberalism against conservatism. Lee was great abolitionism so wtf in such case we can speak about slavery ? it is medial propaganda nothing more

  • Is there a chance we can just enjoy the music? We'd like all the 'Johnny's' of the world to marching home-FOR GOOD! But, then again, that's too simple..Some of you will actually find it so unpleasant to bury your hate..

    GIVE PEACE A CHANCE..

    Try it; you might like it..

  • Nice

  • May God Bless the South & all who fought and died for her!

  • Moving to say the least, good video!

    DEO VINDICE!

  • hydrogen bomb*

  • Anybody see the movie, "Dr. Strangelove"?. The music played in this video was played in that movie as well. ...the background music of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was played as American Stratafortress bombers attacked the old Soviet Union with a nuclear bomb. It was a great movie and the juxtapose of the music was interesting.

  • on add reflection; u amer blacks in general probably couldnt find the sudan on a world map much less usa or canada. mmm govt schools...now u stupid masses want govt healthSNare. remember the illiterate (suprise!!)black woman whom said now its free gas and free mortgage payments time when half white KENYAN obama was "selected".. every generation is tested as they say. real africans look at u with disgust and KNOW there is NO RELATION between amer blacks and Bourne Africans. God bless Vets!

  • You really should use spell check before making such arguments. The lack of a spell check really undercuts your point.

  • It only would undercut his point if your against it and want to grasp at straws to undercut his point. Don't act like you've never made a mistake while typing or writing something. If you're going to try to "undercut" his point at least find not so ridiculous as forgetting to add a letter and not catching it for correction. Maybe it should have something to do with your own opinions and rebuttals against his arguments.

  • So let me get you hippocrytes right. You were against slavery as it existed in the US for 70 odd years. Yet, today in The Sudan Persian/Arabs are killings maiming and ENSLAVING BLACK CHRISTIANS by the 100s n 1,000s. why doesnt ur self serving black marginalized leader jesse "take the cash" jackson cry out? what of allen sharpton? u amer blacks run aroudn and bemoand slavery fr over 100 yrs ago..get could care less abt ur African bros/sistas in 2009. U pipo make me movit. Veterans rock!

  • one of the most stirring marches

    ever written.

    Respect.

  • Numerous Afro-Virginians, free blacks and slaves, were genuine Southern loyalists, not as a consequence of white pressure but due to their preferences. They are the Civil War's forgotten people, yet their existence was more widespread than American history has recorded. Their bones rest in unhonored glory in Southern soil, shrouded by falsehoods, indifference and historians' censorship...and their number was as great as 62,000 and they served side by side their white counter parts...DEO DEVINCE

  • History is written by the victor, seldom the truth.

    It's amazing how many people think the war was just fought to free the slaves (would that many people really die just so they could keep a slave?). It's just a way to demonize the Confederacy to discourage people from thinking they did anything good; even though they were fighting for freedom and states rights against a corrupt government (that is something to die for.)

    ...and I'm a Californian, not a Southerner...

  • If the White man did not have slavery, there may not be any Blacks in America. If the slaves, captured during African wars, were not bought fron other blacks, they would have been executed by their captors-other Blacks. So, slavery saved a lot of lives.

  • Actually they would have been slaves in africa, not killed, so slavery just encouraged a lot more african wars and caused a lot of deaths.

  • also.. when the "white man" took the africans for slaves in america.. If i remeber correctly.. the british sold them to the americans.... then they were sent out on ships.

  • Eric Clapton never recorded Classical Gas. Mason Williams wrote ite, and some people said it was Clapton, so they crossed the Mason-Clapton Line, and now the Civil War is on youtube What is so civil about war, anyway?

  • The South will rise again!!!

  • From Texas....at the rate this brutal tyrannical federal government is it may be sooner than later.

  • Way down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes, and alligators.

  • hahaha limpdick yankee.......

  • Only limpdick around Southerners (The imbred bit really turns me off). I am a yankee, however, and my great great great grandpa got his horse shot out from under him at Gettysburg, thankfully though he survived, as did the Union, and eventually the traitor scum was suppressed, though never quite exterminated it seems.

  • Too bad that reb didn't shoot your grandaddy in the balls would have saved us all from having to put up with you... hahaha are you as big a fucktard as your comments make you appear to be? LOL

  • Great'

  • Hitler did at least ONE good thing during his life. Take suicide, for instance.

  • If only Hitler hadn't, you know, killed millions of people, he'd have been one of the greatest leaders in Germany :)

  • He managed to kill quite a few Marxists as well, thats always a bonus.

  • Oh, and that time he slaughtered the communists in the tens of millions, that was a nice touch too.

  • The Mason-Dixon line is nothing more than the border between Pennsyvania and Maryland. Drawn up in 1690, to settle a land dispute.

  • I like the music, screw the rest

  • hear the good music and stop shiting about south and north or black and white

  • Yes...Hitler refusing to allow the civilian population in Berlin to evacuate as a million pissed off Russians descended a pawn them. How many German woman got raped and we're forced to get abortions again? GREAT THINGS for his people. *Rolls eyes*

  • USSR FTW

  • Hitler did a lot of good things indeed.World War II for one where even today germans suffer from it well done for Adolf.You really got the point dumbass.Think about Jews who were german citizens n got their asses invaded in the name of ARIZATION . Read the books racist scum.

  • Ein Super Marschlied!!!

    Da möchte man doch gleich

    Mitmarschieren!

    THANKS A LOT!

  • hehe ja dann fang mal an zu marschieren :P

  • By the way, a very interesting video and inspiring music, indeed!!

  • Folks,  Just one Question for you- WHO FIRED THE SHOTS AT FORT SUMTER??

  • Don´t know, does it matter?

  • WE DID DEO VINDICE!

  • i live in the north and i heard in some southern states they call the civil war the war of northern aggression and they have bumper stickers that say pride not prejudice or something like that

  • I'm from Russia, and I actually think it was northern agression , and not because of racism , but becauseof its economic interests.

    One of the greatests marches ever.

    Long live to Southern States , South will rise again. If some time ever white people will rise again from this situation , where tolerance leads us (

  • I'm not 'racist' kids are part Filipino and American Indian, but my heart will always stay with my ancestors and the Southern cause. They weren't perfect, but the yankees were (and are) a bunch of damned liars. If they like black folks so much, why weren't they being elected to all sorts of offices throughout the North prior to the conflict instigated by Lincoln (our Stalin)?

  • Good point.The fact is the North won so they were able to rewrite history and make the war one of morality.What a crock.Long live the CSA

  • Sure you're not a racist! Have you got enough brain to be a half-blood person and think the way you do? I'm afraid you suffer from a certain "complex of Stockholm".You are talking about "black folks"..and what colour are you? I'm sure your ancestors would have sent you to grow cotton!!! I'm very sorry but in my opinion your post is a little nonsensical. you can compare Stalin to Hitler, or Mao, or Pol Pot...but to Lincoln!!!!

  • I'm white friend, but my woman isn't. I can't say what my ancestors would do or not do, but I know they'd agree with me that Lincoln was a lying son of b@#$&.

  • I know the real history of your sad War is not as simple as Northerns claim.Maybe it was the devastating fight of two very different societies which neither could live together nor wanted peace. The CSA lost the war so they grew a feeling of despair and indignity connected to "good old times, gone forever".When I listen a Spaniard talking about Hitler in a good way,I can't help saying:'Hey,he would have sent you to gas chamber for not being white enough!' And you made me thought exactly the same

  • 'Hey,he would have sent you to gas chamber for not being white enough!' that is the most ignorant comment ever said, Hitler only hated jews, and africans, he like the indians, and wogs (no not middle eastern wogs)

  • Maby not a racist but he makes his race impure.

  • Yes- South of the Mason Dixon line we call it the "War of Northern aggresion". I agree it had les to do with freeing slaves and more to do with control. Stars and bars forever!!

  • HURRAH!!!

  • Schools teach them that the South is and always has been Racist, and that racism is worse than Murder...that is of course unless that racism is projected at white southerners , and then racism is justified.

  • right out that is false i dont know where you get your information but it is wrong big time

  • Type in "top gear in the south" and you will see why the south gets such a bad rep

  • Sorry make that "top gear in americe"

  • @hindview they don't tell you, though, that democrat is the party of both the KKK and the black panthers, so in short is the party of racism.

  • @hindview You have to figure out who is ultimately responsible.

  • @hindview amen my friend

  • @hindview That is because anti-racist means anti-white, it is a code word.

  • I'm sorry to Disappoint you , but the North will always hate the South...just search the net and you will see that young people in the North today hate our guts even worse than their parents do.

  • sad, isnt it? im fron PA, and i know that the racism is just as bad up here if not worse than down ther

  • THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN...HOORAH

  • we will when obama trys to take our mother fuckin gunz and i think states in the north will join us this time

  • True that man almost eveyr state in the U.S. hates his guts and not because hes black its because he just plain sucks...Because frankly almost my entire neighborhood has mixed races every house a different race family lives in it and i know all of them.And i live in florida.Take that and shove it up your pothole.

  • cool

  • Still get that all over good feeling just listening to this! Thanks!

  • hey i love this song very much but I dont even know what point in this song.can you guys tell me who Johnny in fact is?

  • Johnny Rebel......he is the sprite of all Confederate People.... Long live the Confederate People.

  • Maybe, but it wasn't a Southern song. It was definitely a song of the North. The Rebs had Dixie and Bonnie Blue Flag.

  • @100swp And S'more flavoured schnapps for all!

  • It's about waiting for a soldier, Johnny, to come home from war. My understanding is that it was originally an Irish song, very depressing, "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya". The American version is more hopeful. This is such an inspiring rendition. I love it.

  • John O'Shea, an Irish Full Back who goes marching down the wing on Saturday afternoons

  • He is'nt....he's used as a means to convey the loneliness and hurt felt by both civilians and soldiers during the civil war.

  • a la atencion de RoadCaptainEntertain maravillosa la version de esta marcha. animo y no desfallecer.

  • The "remake" of this song was re-written by a scottish man whos sister was a newlywed and her husband was draffted off to fight (Civl or revalutionary idk) and she was frightend that her husband would die he ended up coming back w/ one leg and one arm.

  • Bravo zulu!!!

  • All you socio-politic compulsive arguers out there JUST STOP & LISTEN a moment to the fine rendition of this grand military / marching song. And then play it again, & LISTEN HARD a second time. It's a brilliant tune, played in this instance by a brilliant military band. AND - I'm sure that the Virginia Military Institute band could do an equally fine rendition, for what that comment's worth. A very nice collection of photos in this accompanying montage, too. Grand work, RCE !! Congrats !!

  • Good comment, what you say is correct.

    But none the less many of us still try to get our viewpoint across via-u-tube.

    Myself I take great offense to all the America bashing that comes from Europeans with short memories

  • Some of the nicest comments I get from Europeans come from those who are 80 - 90 years old (they haven't forgotten).

    Some of the most rediculious come from the "Under 30" crowd who are too young to remember Nazi's or Communist rule.

    The old timers still feel the joy of "Liberation"!

  • Roger that!

  • @RoadCaptainEntertain ya... too bad there's no one in the U.S. to remember how the country came to exist in the first place! I guess that there is nobody over 200 years old to remember who more-than-helped the colonies gain their independence from Great-Britain.....

  • tottaly agrie :D

  • Liberalism is brainwash. The CSA fought for what they believed in which was the states to hold more power than the national gov. aka republic. they wanted to leave the slavery decision up to the states .

    heritage not hate

  • that was to Cheshirecat55

  • Americans are brainwashed. They are Ignorant. The Government wants them to hate each other because the Gov knows if Americans would be United There would a Revolution. The Evil Government would be Overthrown.

  • I admire the slaves who actually killed their so called "owners".

  • The only live film (instead of stills or paintings) in the Ken Burns Civil War film is a shot of a Gettysburg reunion in I think 1905 or some year like that.

  • N word! Are you so afraid to write nigger?

    So what if Lincoln used the word. I am a true American. I have been called a kraut, a Bohunk, a redskin, and a halfbreed. I know what it feels like to be differant. I have blended in at times, and have been rejected by all sides at times.

    Here is a HY PO ? Would the US be better off 2day if the N,s were sent back to A. or worse? Think it over good and then let me know

  • About the same. Just more hated by the rest of the world.

  • why more hated?

  • A country which is labeled as bigoted, arrogant, ignorant, and racist... Usually is frowned upon.

    Unlike American's, we're updated. Our nations of Europe have pryed ourselves out of racism and blind hatred.

    America, on the other hand, is still stuck in the 1960's.

  • I'm no spring chicken, but not old enough to go back and verify the various religions of the world. Persons that believe have a word for it........."faith".

    Lincoln also wrote that after the slaves were freed they should be sent back to Africa.......you don't hear that mentioned on CNN!!!

  • No... No, I honestly can't find any verification on Lincoln saying that.

  • Lincoln used the "N" word many times in his letters as well, he was not 100% the holy man many people (and news media) make him up to be.....

  • "Lincoln used the "N" word many times in his letters as well, he was not 100% the holy man many people (and news media) make him up to be....."

    ---

    By the looks of what he wrote he was an atheist.

    So holy, no. Then again, what can be declared and proven as holy, when the entire Christianity is an imaginary fairy-tale.

  • I like this song.

  • people forget that black people had nothing to do with the civil war. It was more of a war for states rights. IT was a war of power. To have a strong central government or to have a strong state government. The south just couldnt out produce the north. The only way slavery was tied in was when Abraham Lincoln declared all SOUTHERN SLAVES to be freed. Most of the south could have cared less. It was only the rich people who had slaves that were taken aback. Northern slave owners were un-effected.

  • learn to education mate. Rome used slavery as a way to pay debt and punish criminals.

    Slaves in the U.S. were treated better that paid labor of the same type. Indentured servants being the worst. Look up states rights and learn somthing. Btw this is coming from a centerist.

  • And This is true , but like you said Egypt, Australia,The Irish, The Chinese, The africans (by the muslims) amazing how you. you moron drop the WORLDS RACISM ON THE U.S. YOU LIVING IN A GLASS HOUSE BLAME US. THAT WAS BACK IN THE 1860 SHIT BRAIN .FOR NOW ON YOU TALK OF RACISM YOU HAD BETTER SAY "PEOPLE" BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE COLOR OR RACE IN HISTORY WHO HASN'T BEEN A "RASCIST" YOU DIRTY LITTLE HYPOCRITE.

  • I was commenting on the Confederacy. Other slave societies are equally abhorrent, for example Imperial Brazil which kept on to their slaves into the 1880s and the modern indentured slave states in West Africa and other places.

    The problem is the institution of slavery is the death of all human rights and a reversion to the most indecent barbarism possible. 'States rights' as an issue is trivial compared to slavery.

  • Funny thing is that both Lincoln and the South wanted the same thing- to end slavery slowly. Lincoln for legal reasons (slaves WERE property) and the South cuz it wasn't economically feasible. If the South hadn't seceded slavery would have disappeared anyway. Dixie just wanted to do so w/o government interference. Southern prode, y'know.

  • You're so dumb it's incredible. But I guess it's not your fault. You've been spoon fed lies by the liberal education system that seems to want to always lick the black mans balls like we actually owe them something.

  • The liberal education system?...

    Right, you've TOTALLY had a liberal for Congress and president.

  • You're absolutely right. It's nice to see somebody hasn't fallen victim to the spoon-fed lies.

  • Yes, there were black Confederates. Still are.

  • There exists even today, a small number of Yankees who wish the South won the Civil War; not for racist reasons, but cultural and political reasons.

    They are honorable, but ancient at heart, as decent as R.E.L. They often live in the past, but always live in honor.

  • GO PICCOLO!!!!!!

  • The confederate generals were brillient. Had generals like Longstreet, Lee and Stone Wall Jackson not been on the confederate side the war would have been over years sooner. Too bad so many good men died in such a devasting war

  • Great pictures. Great history. Great music. We the people of the United Staes in order to form a more perfect union established justice, ensured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense

  • very nice. How much history is in this video?

    With the compliments

  • awesome song! This should be the National Anthem

  • Dixie!!!!

  • HORRAY FOR DIXIE!

  • okay, you are right, 76% ?

    I like americans, well, not all but some. In our village were many and they all where nice! but now they are gone... =(

  • year, right. 90%

    I love this song, but 90% ?

    the assholes are allways the europes, right? Is that what your saying? I like amerika very much, very very much, but you need to see that the amerikans have made many stupid things too! the europes have done some too, but not only them! 90% ha! mayebe 35-45%?

    well, I don't want to fight with you! oh no! I'm just wrighting what I'm thinking, that's all.

  • America's two biggest mistakes were with Iran and Vietnam. We installed that PIG the shah at the behest of the British. Then we lost 58,000 men for the French Empire. Because of French, we did not ally with Ho Chi Min, who very much wanted our protection in the 40's from the Chinese.

    Ok, how about 80%?

  • i agree- i am pro west- but our own selfishness, or rather the vested interests of the presidents and some other european leaders have been more to do with their own pockets at the expense of long term strategic thinking. the west should be a beacon for freedom- if we want to live up to that then yes...secure the oil but only so we can survive ourselves but also free some genuine dictatorships which we helped get into power in the 1st place. unfortunately power always seems to corrupt

  • Indeed - and the people that hurt the most are the American Taxpayer, and the unfortunate civilians in country "x" where we decide to do our jumping around. After that, then it is the American soldier that bleeds, is maimed, or dies.

    Meanwhile the Euros get free university, free health care, free welfare, short work-weeks, massive vacations - free free free. The Socialist Paradise - all on the backs of the American taxpayer!

    Question:  When do we AMERICANS get these benefits?

  • as a european i have to disagree that europeans services are on the back of the american taxpayer- european taxes pay for each countries services.

    what i would concur is that european security is very much provided by countries like Britain & America....i would not count on the french, spanish or italians - even the germans & nordic countries are unbelieveably liberal & forgiving of the non-western/christian tradition. in fact i find then doing a pendulum swing

  • Mono - To clarify:

    The reason WHY the Euros can afford these great benefits is the fact that the US is providing, and has provided the defense shield for them.

    Thus, they do not have to pay for real militaries - in fact, their militaries can be extensions of their welfare states. So yes, the American taxpayer does not DIRECTLY pay for these benefits, but the indirect payment, through the expenses on defense outside of the US, is real.

    Without it, the Socialist Paradise would be impossible.

  • yes -i wonder if the european armies as a unified force- which they are more or less, considering all the joint exercises & standardisation, have the power, cohesion, strategic planning & forces to defend europe effectively & more than that - project power abroad from their own borders, an ability needed to make the best defence being a good offence tactic......does europe not have this ability- between the Brits, french, german, spanish, italian, & nordic armies & navies?

  • Excellent question - and one that the US *must* force Europe to answer.

  • they seem almost anti-west and definately anti christian. they are anti the crusades seeing the muslims as the poor victims even though islam had the notion of jihad long before the christian defensive crusades got going- in answer to muslim aggression.

    but yeah i agree europe needs to cop itself on

    britain is drowning in islam at the moment- i just hope the U.S can see whats coming & hold onto its old western traditions passed on from the europeans who wanted true freedom

  • You are 100% correct about the Crusades. The Crusades were a European response to the invasions of Christian North Africa, Spain, Italy, southern France, Sicily, etc.

    By 1095, Christendom struck back. And they did not nibble at the edges of the Arab empire - they ripped out its heart - Jerusalem. Good job, I say... Europe should be proud of its Crusader heritage. Instead...

  • instead they are teaching our kids to be ashamed - that the crusaders were power land hungry blood thirsty brutes- all totally wrong. many nobles mortgaged their estates to pay to go on the crusades. many knew there was no wealth to be had on the crusades but most actually went bcoz they thought they were doing the Lords work- truly noble intent- this is backed by letters they wrote etc. if they didnt go we would now be bowing down to mecca praying to a false death cult god

    god bless crusaders

  • " Meanwhile the Euros get free university, free health care, free welfare, short work-weeks, massive vacations - free free free. The Socialist Paradise - all on the backs of the American taxpayer! "

    Where did you get this bullshit, i don't believe you ever have been in Europe.

  • Indeed I have been to Europe - I lived in Switz for a year. At a minimum, Banelux, Netherlands, Germany, Scand., France, Switz and Austria ALL get free or near free health care.

    There are SOME university fees, but they are 90% less than Americans pay. A typical uni semester in Europe costs about $500. The same in America costs AT LEAST $5000 - and twice or more that at a private college.

    35 hour work week in France... 30 days paid vacation in Europe, normally (we get 15 in the US) etc.

  • I understand that the benefits are not quite the same in places like Poland and the UK. They are still cheaper than the US, though...

    My grand point is this: when will the American taxpayer start seeing benefits in their OWN LAND for the vast sums that they dole out to Uncle Sam?

    Instead, it's bases around the world and propping up Europe, Japan and Korea militarily. It's all just a huge bill.

    In Sweden, you walk in, show an ID, fill out a little form, and get cash! How nice...

  • Can I ask you something? How is it that in every GO AMERICA!! song that is played on youtube, there will be someone discussing why America sucks...

  • Ironic isn't it, Firefox?

    The very same technology that we developed and largely gave away is being used to slander us.

    Ingratitude.

  • I go to Youtube to mainly listen to music, laugh, or watch a play/walk through. But hey, the internet is the only free thing in the world. That's ironic, a thing you pay monthly for, is more free then anything on this planet.

  • because ppl from england and other countrys have youtube too its not just an american site

  • (Story of my life...) Yea, but they don't need to hate America so much to the extent of non-existence. I mean, I am American, and I hate parts of it too. But I still love this Nation.

  • So by default other people from other nations should slander us with our own technology?

    You see? This is the problem - ingrates. As I have been saying for months, these Euros deserve NOTHING from the American Taxpayer, and instead get billions in technology and security.

  • Well, look at the bright side! No matter what direction the Human race goes, it will be destroyed be its own undoing.

  • Well count on the Euros to go last, standing on a pile of American bodies...

    The Euros will fight to the last American!

  • when you start seeing an entire nation as an enemy, thats when the body count starts to rise.

  • so true Firefoxrocks256, and we humans are to stupid to see it

  • ahh i have always whounder what the name was of this song ^^

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya, who cares? Both are good songs that are identical in all ways except lyrical.

  • "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"[1] is a popular Irish traditional anti-war and anti-recruiting song. It is the basis for the American popular song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", as Patrick Gilmore announced to the public that he had taken the tune for "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" in 1883.

  • blow it out your ass

    how can someone be a noob at being there nationality? think before you flap your lips you ejit

  • The Irish were key in thousands of ways that made America great. I admire the sacrifices of my ancestors and their brethren.

    This, of course, after Ireland saved Europe during the Dark Ages. Nice job for a little oppressed island in the North Atlantic.

    In terms of the origins of this song, it was sung frequently on both sides. Many, if not most songs were sung by both sides. And many songs were based on melodies from the uk at this time - psrticularly drinking songs.

  • just goes to show that beer is, after all, a great thing ;)

  • lol

  • Beer: is there anything it can't do?

  • it can't not be awesome

  • by great you mean big right? cuz if u mean "good" im gonna have to say that americans seems pretty stupid -.-

  • I mean great in every way. Someday, you will read your history and appreciate what America has done in this world.

    As your ignorance fades away, you will also notice that 90% of our mistakes have been the cleaning up of Euro-messes - Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, etc. etc.

  • When The United States Millitary band plays

    An Irish song, of an irish soldier, That makes

    me Mad.

  • Two of my best friends are red-headed Irish-Americans and military history buffs. They don't have a problem with this video.

    May I suggest Prozac or Valium, some anger management classes might be in order also.

  • I educated the ignorant in the history field.

    The Irish weren't the only ones to go through what you discribe. Be mad about it if you like but the Irish have no special claim to being "outcasts" many groups fell into that same catagory. Italians, French, Germans and Chinese suffered the same fate.

    And no I am not forgetting, I understand it quite well. Plus the Irish did find a better life in the States.

  • yes

  • the song was actual a confederate marching song the johnny is actal a confderate soilder

  • look up johnny i hardly knew ya it was written before this song and its a knock off of older irish songs

  • No it wasn't and no, "Johhny" wasn't a Confederate officer. The lyrics were written by Patrick Gilmore who was the bandmaster of the 24th Massacusetts. The original sheetmusic carries a dedication to "the army and the navy of the Union". It was popular in the south but the lyrics were written by a northener.