June Tabor-The Band Played Waltzing Matilida
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To all my australian & new zealand & Irish& Indian & Ghurka friends - this song is just a SAD tribute to you all - YOU made a tremendous contribution to our freedom - Without you we would not be here
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A song to strum one's heartstrings... and a voice that can melt even the most frozen...
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Beautifully sung
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Wow
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One of the most powerful anti war songs I have ever heard, stunningly sung!
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So Great that you forget there are no instruments except for THAT voice.other great versions by Liam Clancy ,The Pogues.Do people really listen to the message in anti-war songs?
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Powerful stuff for all those who served or are serving, anywhere.
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@88888Adriana Never forget them, of course. But also we should not glorify war. Not every soldier dies for a good cause, and that is what this song is about.
If we are too eager to wave our flags and go to fight then it devalues the sacrifices that have been made in the past and are still made today. We should only go to war when we have a damn good reason, and we should not think that because good people are fighting for a cause that it is just. Soldiers do as they are told.
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Wonderful singer, but this doesn't give me the chills like the Makem & Clancy version. Has to be sung by a man?
So hauntingly true - and we never learn.
lorsujan 1 year ago 5
Genuinely enough to bring tears to one's eyes - I was lucky enough to see JT live - she is incomparable.
TheWesteros 7 months ago 3