Flowers of the Forest

[ErnstBecker]

Here's to you Uncle John. Thanks for kicking Hitler's arse at Normandy and beyond. We miss you.

[jasper0192837465]

To uncle John

[EdnaSweetlove]

What relation have the pictures of Americans invading France got to do with the music? Pathetic ignorance!

[ErnstBecker]

Willie McBride, WW I; however, the words apply.

[EdnaSweetlove]

The photos show US soldiers invading France. They should have stayed at home and chewed gum.

[ErnstBecker]

I thank them all to this day. I drew up not speaking German, even though I'm part German. I wasn't forced into a Hitler Youth Group. Too bad the only thing you know about WW II is movies, video games, and You Tube. Perhaps you believe that the Germans were prepared to do that? Who was going to take OMAHA and UTAH BEACHES? Perhaps either the Queens or the Kings Own? Le curse a vous madam.

[EdnaSweetlove]

You drew up not speaking German? Yet you are part German? Obviously not the educated part.

[ErnstBecker]

First, I grew up. I didn't "drew" up. It's a "type o" Rosie. Quick to condem are ya? The educated peson, more holy than anyone else! It is better not to have attended the Univeristy and learned something than to have gone to the University and learned nohing. Obviously, you ARE IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF.

[HelenSSpencer77]

Did you have to work hard to get this stupid, or were you born with the inability to read and learn. Stupid just comes naturally to some people. Congrats

[EdnaSweetlove]

Listen, dumbo.. How about learning a bit of manners? This film is sloppy crap and anyone with a brain would know it.

[HelenSSpencer77]

Somehow I have a difficult time accepting advice on "manners" from someone as crude and rude as EDNA (ha). Read Miss Manners and get some for yourself.

Try it...you'll like it. You have some anger issues that need to be addressed, IMHO.

Like, towards everyone on earth.

[EdnaSweetlove]

What sort of rubbish are you talking about? "Anger issues that need to be addressed" ???? Do you speak English? What's an anger issue? Why should one address an issue? Speak English, not subnormal American slang-jargon. Goodbye.

[ErnstBecker]

Since you didn't fight any where for anyone -- you're dumber than dumb. "Flowers of the Forrest" is a piper's lament for the dead.  It has been replaced at funerals, amongst Common Wealth Forces and Canada, with

" Amazing Grace". Why don't you become a talk show host? Your "om de guere" -- The Great Karnak".

[EdnaSweetlove]

@ErnstB - "Amazing Grace" is a cheap and sentimental hymn tune. And Commonwealth is one word, so who's the dumb one, Ernie? And surely it's fighting and getting killed for nothing is pretty dumb?

[ErnstBecker]

Have I been sentenced to messa duty and gurad duty.? Been there and done that.

[ErnstBecker]

Woke up on the wrong side of the bed did ya? Perhaps withut fighting, the World as we know it today, would have been over run bt=y the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mussonili, Tito and Tojo. Would you have liked to live in a World as such?

[EdnaSweetlove]

Try not to talk drivel, dear. You may not have noticed it, but the only reason why Hitler's Germany was beaten in WW2 was because of Stalin's Soviet Union. Read some history, get educated and learn how to spell Mussolini.

[ErnstBecker]

Greta day in the morning ! Liberty canceled and I'm restricted to barracks. Becker you got mess duty, guard duty and every other shit detail that comes down the pike. Been there an done it all. The Russians wiht their doga as pack animmls to transport their S4 gear? Give me a break. Stalin was on the verge of cutting a deal with Hitler. He begged both FDR and Lord Winston Churchill to start a second front. Those mulniks were embroiled in battles like Stalingrad, Minsk and Kursk.

[ErnstBecker]

Is because you are incapable of understanding it. As the Moon -- it's over your head.

[ErnstBecker]

Whatever you say Helen Spinster. Does this mean liberty is canked and I'm restricted to barrracks?

[ErnstBecker]

Listen up Edna Sour bags, I fought in a war, you didn't. Education by part -- Wagner, Mendel and others. Obvioulsy? So you're a learned scholar are ya? Well then darling, secure a teaching postion at either a University or a College. You'll do a "spin off" on the days of rage and be a hang over from the 1960s.

[ErnstBecker]

Back again -- with a hangover. What University ot College did you graduate from? It is better to have not attended either the University or College and learned something than to have attended the College or University and learned nothing.

[ErnstBecker]

If I was born in a barn would it make me a horse?

[EdnaSweetlove]

Dear Herr Becker: I think you will find horses tend to dwell in stables, not barns.

[ErnstBecker]

If caca was concrete you would be I-10, that's East and West.

[jasper0192837465]

good song...dropkick murphys

[ErnstBecker]

LOL !

[BillDFC]

This song is The green fields of France,not the floo'ers o' the forest.

Alba gu brath.

[ErnstBecker]

Perhaps known with both song titles?

[jim2t6]

Stand by, your glasses steady, and drink to your comrade's eyes. Here's a toast to the dead already, and hurrah for the next to die

[ErnstBecker]

Ich enien comraden .............

[nacho1560]

I disagree. I think as a lament the Flooers o the Forest can be used in many contexts, not just for Scottish dead.

[metalhead192]

its celtic it can go for irish 2

[nacho1560]

metalhead, couldn't agree more. I took it for granted we Celts were all as one.

After D Day my late dad was with the KOSB's, holed up and faced with a German Panzer division in Normandy.

They had to hold their position which they did, for several days, then were relieved by the Ulstermen and went on to take the German post.

"What good was a Panzer tank against the race of Celts?" my dad used to say.

[ErnstBecker]

Salute !

Well said for the Celts.

[Gaudd]

When we get independence we can be shot of you English, you are a dispicable race.

[BirgitMunro]

Cruelly inappropriate visually to hijack a traditional Scots dirge, written as a lament for the Scots massacred by the English at the battle of Flodden field. This is an anti-English song, which can only be played at funerals or state occasions, and has no relevance to any other battle.

[cockleheadXL]

I totally agree with you Alison!

[Hubbub9999]

Flodden was massive defeat for an INVADING Scottish army. The Jocks were the bad guys in this one invading England to help the French. Using the word "massacre" is wholly inappropriate.

The "flowers" refers to the flower of Scottish nobility who perished along with King James ina suicidal charge on the English standard.

It's not the least bit "anti-English," it is a lament for a fallen king.

[ballynafeighbluedog]

You are correct Hub.The Scottish army was twice the size of the English army.Scottish army was the biggest and best equiped army ever to cross the border into England.On the day the English won.

[MetalSanke]

Will you dumbasses show some fucking respect?!

[nacho1560]

The Scottish army may have been strong, but it was made up of volunteers and conscripts who didn't receive a wage. And James was headstrong, a typical and loveable trait of the Stewarts, depending on your allegiance.

The English army were to a man professionals, paid for their services. I think that's why they won.

[nacho1560]

Also, Hubbub, come on, we were not the bad guys for fighting for the French cause. In those days there was no UK and the English were the constant thorn in our flesh, not the French.

You guys were in fact the baddies, power being the ambition of your king. Ours, foolish maybe, was to honour a treaty between Scotland and the French.

[nacho1560]

Henry VIII has hardly gone down in history as a hero, whereas James IV was seen as educated, principled and yes, foolhardy.

I'd say James was the most loved of both Kings. Henry was a womaniser of the most despicable of sorts who murdered his wives in order to have others.

[ErnstBecker]

Correct !

Recognition for valor in combat was given in "coin" on a drum head.

[fergiewergie]

Flowers of the Forest was originally a Scottish lament about those who didn't come home from Flodden. Very cleverly integrated with Green Fields of France (No Mans Land)

[BillDFC]

15 09 1513

[macala17]

Great song.  The Men They Couldn't Hang's version is my favourite version.

[allgreatmusic]

after flowers of the forest is finished, that song being sung is 'green fields of france.' A beautiful song, my favorite cover of it is by the dropkick murphys. well done.

[yeahbyme]

Sung at my mother's funeral in honour of her brother, my uncle, Lt. George Oakes Curphey, killed in Italy, 1944. Just another beautiful young man, gone before he had the chance to love and live out his due time. Bloody war.

[ponkkaa]

Here's another very touching version of This song

corries green fields of france

[myfinzrup]

I thought that sounded like the Bhoys.

[myfinzrup]

I really love what you have done.

It is quite moving.

Who is doing the singing?

[morgainedeshone]

The band is Glengary Bhoys and the album is 'Home Again'

[davidarmisread8623]

yes beautiful

[BlindIo42]

This song is actually called "Green Fields of France" or "No Man's Land." "Flowers of the Forest" is an ancient Scottish tune. This is an excellent version of "Green Fields of France" though. Thank you.

[morgainedeshone]

Thanks. I really liked using flowers of the forest as the title, since I'm a bagpiper, and I associate that song with funerals and such

[myfinzrup]

I really love what you have done.

It is quite moving.

Who is doing the singing?

[ferryman1903]

this is about the first world war on the 2nd ...do you know what it is really about?

[morgainedeshone]

yes, that was a personal choice because I could find better pictures for WWII. Also why I didn't use the whole song because it didn't match.

[ferryman1903]

Hey it's kool :) not getting at you :) Very gd choice

[KathyAJT]

Thanks for posting this beautiful song.