No Man's Land

Written and sung by Eric Bogle.
AKA The Green Fields of France and Willie McBride.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bogle
• McBride
• Green
• Fields
• France
• antiwar

[HelenSSpencer77]

I agree with you...I love this song and it could be about any men from any country, who have fought useless wars. I'm from the USA and proud of it, while realizing we're not perfect...we don't deserve all the blame for everything that happens all over the world. Americans are generous people and do try to help in any diaster.

Americans are everyman, for we come from everywhere in the world.

We also hate war, and this song is a wonderful deterrent, or should be. It 's beautiful.

[chickinchainmail]

They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old,

age shall not wear them, nor the years condemn

In the going down of the sun, and in the morning

We will remember them

Lest we forget

[bobknightfolk]

Great song from Eric. In the 1905 census, the Scots were recorded as the tallest people in Europe. In the census after the first world war they had become the shortest. The Scots make up around 10% of the Uk population, but made up around 24% of British casulaties :(

[jonnieprince]

if the politicians and media moguls encouraging you to fight a war are not in the first wave - just don't follow - simple

[bradesh]

I love this song and I perform it also. It has been a quandary trying to find a way to ultimately honor the incredible courage and sacrifice of the soldier.by finding a way to stop killing off our brightest, bravest and best in the interest of state and religion.

[TheReg54]

@HelenSSpencer77 americans are fine people i vam Australian and we from all over the place

[HelenSSpencer77]

I too am proud to have the blood of Scots in my veins, even tho it was a few hundred yrs. ago they came to this wild country. There is no doubt this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, and if the words do not touch the listeners heart, then that heart is made of stone. The Scots are a magnificent people and this song, a powerful manifestation of the Scot spirit, sung by an incomparable Scot.

[barrach7]

@HelenSSpencer77 From a 'Scot', I fully agree. People, are people, are people. But flags and intolerance and ultimately greed are what's wrong. Cheers - from a citizen of this world (more to me than being Scottish).

[caslox]

Well said HelenSSpencer77, great sentiment.

[BenAliGtor]

I really needed this. Just got through viewing a video of a song called "I Saw Jesus Waving the Stars and Stripes" or some such title....and this fine thought provoking song about the reality of war is a perfect antedote to silly tripe.

[imunchbutts]

@tracy070991 Original is always the best.