Eric Bogle - No Man's Land ( Green Fields of France )

Nice version sung in English and German

By Eric Bogle and Wachol
(German lyrics composed by Hannes Wader)

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[007poerschi]

es wurden alle verarscht! deutsche, franzosen, engländer und amerikaner. R.I.P. allen soldaten der beiden weltkriege.

[BaldGrace]

I'm very glad to hear the German lyrics. Wouldn't mind hearing it in French, Hungarian, Turkish or any other language that a WWI combatant might have spoken- this is one of the most human and humanitarian songs I know.

[VideoSaySo]

@everyonelovesdee Awesome series! I love how they are SO historically accurate with the timeline...

[GlorioMundi]

Wunderbarer Song ! Knowing long long time the german version by 'Hannes Wader': Es ist an der Zeit..;-)*

Shalom&Selam&Peace

[tenfed1861]

Florence Green died this week.She was the last WWI.The pain of the "Great" War is truly over.The pain is only a thing of history now.

[everyonelovesdee]

WWI is following me around for the last year now. Since the end of the first series of Downton Abbey. I've gone to see the play Warhorse, the second series of Downton Abbey, debating the theme of heroes with my sister, who mentioned this song, the movie Warhorse and the BBC adaption of Sebastian Faulks' "Birdsong" and something else along the way. But as I watched Warhorse and Birdsong recently, this song went through my head. Interesting how things stick to be recalled at a later date.

[sophieclarkpoem]

Schönes Lied.Aber auch sehr traurig

[SiggiNebel]

@rhart49 It's strange. So many brilliant man died, so many bulllets and shells hit and killed, but, of all soldiers, he survived that war and maybe that's one of the reasons why ghe thought that "providence" was on his side and played his game as if he couldn't possibly lose, even against all odds.

[rhart49]

@SiggiNebel So many lives would have been spared if that wanker had died when he was wounded in WW1

[TwoBitWriter]

An entire generation of men human beings were destroyed by that war, no matter the side and no matter whether they were actually killed or not.

It is a shame we truly never learned the lessons of the two world wars.

[SiggiNebel]

@Andre8869 Actually in WWI, at some occasions the soldiers of both sides agreed kind of private cease-fires, walked accross the lines, exchanged presents and so on.After such incidents, the units were often deployed to other parts of the front, as the commanding officers doubted whether they were still willing to fight against each other. At other parts of the front the soldiers sometimes came to silent accordance only to do a kind of mock fighting, by shooting into the air etc.

[SiggiNebel]

@packratte1 Das beste finde ich vielleicht "Le déserteur" von Boris Vian,aber auch da finde ich die deutschen Übersetzungen nicht sehr überzeugend. Es gibt aber auch ein paar sehr gute deutsche, z.B. "Die Ballade vom toten Soldaten" von Brecht.