And the Band Played Waltzing Matildia

Oddly I came across this song bundled with a bunch of Irish drinking songs. I listened to it and new I had to try and make a video.

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Music

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• WWII
• Gallipoli

[jratt2]

This is a very well done video - enjoyed it. The song was written by a Scotsman about the Australian experience at Gallipoli in 1915 where about 8,000 Aussie's and Kiwi's were killed. Its appropriate that it should be sung here by The Dubliners, as about 3500 members of the 10th (Irish) Division died there, many with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. May they all RIP.

[bigbeninjax]

A sadder song and better video were never made on Youtube. Hopefully one day there will be no more need for parades for war.

8,000 stars for this one.

[bobgladstone]

The Suvla Bay landing was actually a British landing force. The Bristish 1Xth Corps made up mainly of 10th Irish Division and 11th Northern Division and led by Lt General Stopford.

The landings were actually quite succesful with little opposition and few casualties.

It was the inept leadership of Stopford and the failure to move out of the beach heads to Capture the heights and support the ANZACS at ANZAC Cove that allowed the Turkish reinforcements to arrive and then the casualties began.

[boazandjiacinth]

MAY ALL OUR FALLEN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS REST IN PEACE...

[iluvprawns]

In 2000, my school choir performed this at our local RSL. I was both proud and humbled to sing such an emotive song.

[soledweller]

my brother sang this on his stag night with a local band,he was a soldier who had come back from war only a few months before and he,d seen and done some things to the enemy that troubled him and he sang it with such emotion,i never forget that night every time i hear this.

[hanshotfirst1138]

@MDBellamy Should've recognized his superb inflection anywhere!

[MDBellamy]

@hanshotfirst1138 Ronnie Drew (of the Dubliners)

[hanshotfirst1138]

Who's singing here?

[maghaberryman]

Great version of this song, just a pity that the video has more Americans in it rather than the Anzacs

[jonsouthgen]

Once again ,as so often happens with his magnificent songs, no mention of Eric Bogle. From Peeebles he emigrated to Australia and after various careers finally found his calling as a songwriter/performer."The Band Played Waltzing Matilda "and No Man`s Land 2(known as The Green Fields of France /Willie McBride) are only two of his many superb compositions regarding the futility and hopelessness of war. While Ronnie D. undoubtedly makes a very fine job of this cover version, Eric` is magnificen t

[derryhawk]

You are so right. Every war is the same. Ordinary people are conned into thinking they are right, and good fathers, sons,brothers, are trained to kill and die. Then when it is all over, the politicians sort it out at a peace conference. Thirty years later, you start to find that your own crowd were guilty of war crimes too. It is all so sad. Such a waste of life.