willie McBride

1916

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Music

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• somme

[bluestarguy]

GO ON YAA BOY YEE

NO SURRENDER

[oldchurch000]

WE ARE THE PEOPLE

[ivo1120]

Great song,great video.Serbia fight together with Britain in WW1 and we lose more then 2100000 mens in army for freedom.

No surrender!Nema predaje!

[rutherglenbluebell5]

lest we forget battle of the somme 1st july 1916

[gatesycfc]

Three of these William McBrides fell in 1916; two were members of an Irish Regiment, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and died more or less in the same spot during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. One was 21, the other 19 years old. The 19-year-old Private William McBride is buried in Authuille British Cemetery, near Albert and Beaumont-Hamel, where the Inniskilling Fusilliers were deployed as part of the 29th Division

[MiniGil1992]

It wasn't for King or for England I died,

It wasn't for glory or the Empire's pride.

The reason I went was both simple and clear:

To stand up for freedom did I volunteer.

It's easy for you to look back and sigh,

And pity the youth of those days long gone by,

For us who were there, we knew why we died,

And I'd do it again, says Willie McBride.

[MiniGil1992]

Ask the people of Belgium or Alsace-Lorraine,

If my life was wasted, if I died in vain.

I think they will tell you when all's said and done,

They welcomed this boy with his tin hat and gun.

And call it ironic that I was cut down,

While in Dublin my kinfolk were fighting the Crown.

But in Dublin or Flanders the cause was the same:

To resist the oppressor, whatever his name.

[MiniGil1992]

Yes, they beat the drum slowly, they played the pipes lowly, And the rifles fired o'er me as they lowered me down, The band played "The Last Post" in chorus, And the pipes played "The Flowers of the Forest."

[MiniGil1992]

My dear friend Eric, this is Willie McBride,

Today I speak to you across the divide,

Of years and of distance of life and of death,

Please let me speak freely with my silent breath.

You might think me crazy, you might think me daft,

I could have stayed back in Erin, where there wasn't a draft,

But my parents they raised me to tell right from wrong,

So today I shall answer what you asked in your song.

[MrRastaJoe]

wtf ulster? gtf.

[1798Greenflag1916]

@Prodpete Theres a H in what Pete ;)

[Prodpete]

@wandelbhoy This video and song is dedicated to a hero, something your tiny sectarian mind could never appreciate.