Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire

A song about the First World War sung by Chumbawamba.

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Education

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• Chumbawamba
• World
• War
• One
• Great
• General
• soldier
• 1914
• hanging
• barbed
• wire
• mud
• history

[AsDeadAsDillinger]

It's called the 'GREAT WAR because they could hardly call it 'The SHIT war now could they ?

No one would have bothered turning up for 'A SHIT WAR'

I guess the PR people thought the 'GREAT WAR' sounded more attractive

I mean they'd look like right dicks if nobody turned up on the day.

-of course I could be wrong.

Instead of a war the politicians should be put in a room, and if they can't work out their problems, we shoot them and put two more in, eventually they'll get the idea.

[BroodofLoki]

My grand dad fought on the Western front for three years. he sang this song for me when i was an ankle biter.

[KarmicAnarchist]

@DanielAfroHead Thank you. I'm so glad you cleared that up for me.

[DanielAfroHead]

@KarmicAnarchist Because great sounds better than huge people thought every war was huge beacuse thousands of people took part but this made the others look tiny so they used great

[KarmicAnarchist]

@F4Wildcat Ashamed of what, exactly? Speaking for myself, I'm not ashamed of anything I've said here. And as for for the 100 million dead, It's an awful shame and everything, but I didn't kill any of them. And if I can't make a joke out of something that happened nearly 100 years ago without you getting all butthurt about it, then it's not me who needs to get a grip really is it?

[KarmicAnarchist]

@dortyhoor Good point.That's a stupid place to be. I'd rather be "Rolling out some new barbed wire", so there was some room for all the Officers who didn't get a chance to play. It's a bit bloody much, getting all the way to the front line, only to find there's no room to hang up the Majors and Generals too. I could even roll with extending the War to 1919 just so that the ranking Officers got a chance to be cut to fucking ribbons by MG fire too. After all, fair's fair.

[KarmicAnarchist]

@croweman180 That's only because they didn't wan't him behind them, bomsecksin them when they weren't looking.

[KarmicAnarchist]

@DanielAfroHead Bollocks! If that was the case, why don't we call it "The Huge War" then?

[TOMMY95215]

@KarmicAnarchist lol @ u fag

[AsDeadAsDillinger]

@NeverTheSame

Yes, I realise that that 'Great' in this context means great in extent, and not great as in very good. I would have thought that the thick vein of irony would be readily discerable.

PR people had less inolvement in the wars of the past, unlike today, where PR ass-hats think up such bullshit names as 'Infinite Justice' in order to better 'market' their wars to the public.

they may as well name it 'Operation Moral High-Ground'

[NeverTheSame]

@AsDeadAsDillinger You do realize that in this context, "great" is used to mean large, not fantastic. It was called the Great War because it was the largest-scale war every fought in recent history, not because they thought it was awesome.

[DanielAfroHead]

@AsDeadAsDillinger Actually great in those times didn't mean good it meant huge because the war was so wide spread