The Green Fields Of France By The Fureys & Davey Arthur

The Fureys are an Irish male folk band. They also sometimes record as the The Fureys and Davey Arthur.

The group formed in 1978 and consisted initially of four brothers [1]. The band later met Davey Arthur and had their biggest commercial successes working with him.

Prior to the band two of the brothers toured as a duet known simply by their names as Eddie and Finbar Furey. Paul had together with Davey Arthur and Brendan Leeson a band called "The Buskers". Both were part of a very successful tour through Germany first in 1974 called the "Irish Folk Festival", where they perform as "The Furey Brothers" and "The Furey Family". Here they were joined by their father Ted, a famous fiddler, who was 73 at that time.

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[sbbinahee]

Thanks for the info. It's a great song and they do a great job. Thats' the point really.

[NLTreasure]

@sbbinahee YW and I agree 100%

[Arkybark]

I saw Eddie and Finbar in Frankfurt in the 1970s. Sadly, few folk groups play here anymore -- probably because the affordable concert halls have all been converted into expensive concert halls or Cineplexes.

[peternewbottle]

beautiful song , sung beautiful !

[SuperSelfservice]

lots of love to my love ones xxxxx

[armyman195]

it might be the shame of war but those guys who fought in that war fought for a country they loved and will always love even the falling soldiers fought with pride and died with pride but no-one realises that but the people who understand war

[blackfly1955]

@GatesOfHell4 and @MajorPatMcClelland, people like you are the REASON it all happened again and again and again and again. This song is about the shame of war, not the glory.

[samueltheodoridi]

@GatesOfHell4 Ah, but without them we'd have lost the war most likely

[fedinhorax]

Did anyone ever go to the green fields of France? I've been there a couple of times and the WW1 graveyards are really beautiful, especially the small ones where there are maybe only 7 crosses in a circle in the middle of a field, where the men actually fell.

They paid the highest price in war and they lived through hell, but man, do they have a beautiful place to rest for ever...

[gaiaiulia]

This also moves me very much. If you liked this check out "Waltzing Matilda" by the Clancy Brothers. Another great antiwar song.

Much of the blame for the enormous death toll in WW I is down to the incompetence of the Generals (mostly British) and the truly dreadful conditions in the trenches. Check out the war poets, Siegfried Sasoon, et al, for evocative descriptions of life on the battlefield. Not before time that our Irish soldiers efforts can be recognised.

[1mraware]

@matthewkeene powerful song alrite