John McDermott - The Green Fields Of France (With Lyrics)

Another great song by John McDermott

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[Cameron Watts]

you all know that this song was used by dozens of different bands/artists and not just this guy

[Lawrence047 .]

Okay?

[pirbird14]

"Did you really believe that this war would end wars?

Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame

The killing and dying it was all done in vain

Oh Willy McBride it all happened again

And again, and again, and again, and again"

That sounds pretty anti war to me.

[Teddyb1939]

John does a great version of this sad but lovely song

[dogcanyon]

Perhaps the greatest of all antiwar songs, It has haunted me since I first heard it in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Years later when Mary Travers sang it at an outdoor concert in Santa February, I just couldn't hold back the tears.

[GeorgeVeld]

I am not saying that war is a good thing But........

[GeorgeVeld]

I am sorry but there is nothing about this song that says any thing about ani war just sipply put honor for a young 19 yearold boy and the many more like him if you say anti war that mean that young Williy should not have been there which means he deserves no honer Yet when my grandparents fought hitler to save the jews from the gas cambers they where not to be there ither So they deserve no honor because they fought a war???

[Diana Pohe]

This is one of my Dad's favourite songs.

A month ago my family and I went to Wales passing by France; there, he made us visit all the cemeteries of a little village in order to look for William McBride's grave. We've been to something like 6-7 cemeteries before finding the right one.. When we found both the graves (there was a W. McBride too), I managed to get a bit closer to the true meaning of this song, for I saw the thousands who had died.. One of the deepest experiences of my whole life.

[supernikki12100]

John McDermott sang with the Irish tenors but he is originally from Scotland his family moved to Canada when he was very young.

[jalowitz]

McDermott's version of the song was the composer's favorite.