@@shanedarcy361 same man ..eric bogle..also bringing buddy home..... also...all the fine young men.....also.....the band played waltzing matilda.....and more.
Beautiful song. I learned not long ago that my great, great uncle 'joined the great fallen of 1916' from wounds he sustained on the first day of the Somme. He was lost to the family for many years until my uncle discovered him while doing some family-tree research. Thankfully he is now remembered and my uncle travelled to France to put flowers on his grave.
To all those who died in WW1 and WW2. In an attempt to make this world a better place for the generations coming after You. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE
The voice, the lyrics, the emotion. We never acknowledge the true costs of war. And we never acknowledge who actually benefits from war, and they just go on to enjoy their riches gained by the blood of the men.
One of the most important songs ever written. I'm a descendent of a soldier that fought in The Somme and was forever damaged, waking night after night screaming to his comrades to "get under, lads" meaning to take shelter from an imminent gas attack in the trenches. For anyone to be so mentally mutilated for the rest of his life, by a country that sent him in as cannon fodder, is an obscenity beyond words. This song however comes pretty damn close.
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep. All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts. We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives. They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
Forget the flag-waving, the military parades, nationalism and uniforms. Remembrance Day should be marked by TV and radio reading out the names of all those poor lads who died for the lies and greed of rich old men - and every person in every country should be made to listen to it.
Absolutely right Shaun , when you think WW1 was caused by a bunch of infighting inbred royalty...They were all related, so 20 million people died because of these ba$tards...Eric is a great anti war song writer, on top of that he looks like a great guy...Sadly it makes no difference, a president (Trump) in the has increased the military budget to more than the next 28 combined...Even Obama had to go along with the US war machine, this money would probably end starvation in the world, total madness!!!...
I'm with you, man. Imagine listening to all their names one after another. It's never been tried. Some people would just shut down and go to sleep, but many people would be deeply affected, I reckon.
My two Grandfathers fought in suvla Bay, the Somme, yepys. Both came home. Eric Bogle really sums it all up in his songs just like you feel you was there with the diggers. Brilliant really
I've tried singing this song and cannot get very far. As a veteran of another pointless war (Vietnam), it cuts too deep. I was born a year after my uncle was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, and I was named after him. My mother and grandmother never got over his death.
The song is not poingnant perhaps to vietnam or the battle of the bulge.I did the road trip down the route of the battle some years ago at around the same time of year.. I hit Bastonge on the right hand side and sort of glanced and noticed the bullet holes from the road. Stopping seemed pointless, I had paid respect to the graves in the north already. I guess one needs to take the trip to see it is a place to get away from for some reason, I never figured why I never wanted to stop off , I just moved to a tank museum further south. Good trip in the easter break.. I recommend it
I first heard this song as a student in Canada on Remembrance Day. It was on the radio in 1984. Never forgot it but never knew the title. Searched for it years later using remembered lyrics and so grateful to have found it. Beautiful and haunting.
I served 34 years. My family served in every war since the French and Indian War. I understand the sympathies of this song perfectly. Here's a glass to the brothers and sisters I've lost and those who went before me.
@@bipedalame A Flight Nurse was buried in Los Angelos. As one bitter relative said at the funeral, "She returned with all the useless medals". It took most of 30 years for us to acknowledge the service of the Nurses who served and died in Viet Nam.
From the "War to end wars", Young Willie McBride it all happened again. And again and again and again and again!! We are ALL RESPONSIBLE! Thank you Mr. Fogle.
I've seen him live a few times -Port Fairy, Echuca etc. Always sincere, and had a broad range of topics. Fun recordings, sad recordings. All of them great.
My Grandmother lost her husband during WW2, he was over 50 and had gone through all of WW1 but was kept on in the RN because WW2 had started, he was on the Hood between the wars and was transferred to HMS Galatea, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. She kept a picture of him on her mantelpiece, and a glass cabinet was almost a shrine to him. This song always reminds me of her, and the Grandad I never knew.
I just visited Flanders Fields and some of the many soldier cemeteries around Ypres and then I wondered about the stupidity, vanity, and greed of the men that caused the catastrophe in which so many young people lost their lives or were maimed for life. "lest we forget" is inscribed on the Menin Gate, and reading the words I thought about how soon we forgot the lessons of WWI. Humanity will never learn.
2022 I am a Yank and just found this. I had heard this song many times, but this is something else to hear the composer doing this song. Let us all never forget...
It applies equally to the foot soldiers on all sides. I don't believe for one minute, that the ordinary Russian wants to be involved in the present conflict. :-((
I watched it in school we were supposed to do a task and it was to think of 1 word about this song and I was unsure but my teacher put it on again and then I thought again (my thoughts words) “I think William McBride was all about BRAVERY “
My grandfather survived WW1 with great luck as a damaged person, physically and of course psychically. But apparently he wasn't damned enough to be sent again in WW2 with the age of 44 years. In the meantime his young wife had died leaving three children, one of them my father. I was lucky to have a grandfather who had so much love for his grandchildren, we learned so much with him. But he was a broken man at all. Never talking about his war experience, only desperatly crying at night. No man can imagine, what he has seen, which fear he had to suffer hiding jews in the nazi time ... Would someone exchange lifetime with him? Or isn't peace a much better decision?
And now we have war again in Europe. And you find me in despair. What happened to the world, that one hazardeur puts the world into another Willi McBrieds destiny again?
Thirty four years of service, this rips me heart out. God bless those who served with me and the loved ones they left. Why was I left? Alcohol and time doesn't give me an answer. Bless my friends, hopefully I'll see you soon.
A song that was written about the First World War , but yet it really continues to be valid in how it relates not just to WW I , but it really now covers all of the war and conflicts that have been fought since , the questions asked to Willie McBride would be relevant to be asked to any of our fallen soldiers , sailors , marines , and airmen .
Wow. And damn the politicians who think war is an alternative to bargain with. Have always cried with these songs, but my own regrets, thank you for spreading the word.
You've been gifted Eric Bogle...this and Waltzing Matilda prove how humans are sacrificed by cowardly unseen forces...the puppeteers...as is happening now across the World...thank you.
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep. All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts. We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives. They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
The last concert that I seen with my dad, was Eric in Irvine. A moment for me that will stay for many years. Huge thanks as it was just my dad the night before I got married. the best Stag do with only two people ever. Thanks Eric.
I visited the graves in Northern Thailand (river Kawai) was heartbroken at so many young men and women buried there, found many from my home city. War as an act is NOT something to be glorified - war should be despised as the wanton act it is. All my heartfelt love, respect, admiration, and veneration rightly given to the people who did not survive, all heroes.
I too visited the War Graves at Kanchanaburi...,,,,,Near River Kwai Bridge,,,,,the beautifully kept graves,,,,,,and the Ages of some buries there was so sad.
My wife and I had breakfast with Eric and John in Rotherham the morning after seeing them live, what a surprise, we had booked into the B&B not knowing 🥰 and he signed The Dreamer album I bought. Fantastic artists and decent human beings 😎
Every time I hear this song I've got tears in my eyes because I think of my great uncle who I found out about in the family bible he was killed in action aged 19 2 weeks before the war was finished his older brothers felt survivors guilt god bless all who serve their country's
Came across My Youngest son came home today by Eric bogle, he knows how to make people think about war. Also another war song As if He Knows , heart breaking
Was lucky to have seen Eric live in concert on numerous times when he lived in Australia. Genius song writer with also a sense of humour, I remember his shows he would have you laughing with one song and in tears with the next.
This is by far the best version of this song! If the writer of a song sings his song, it cannot be done better! It is the same with a book, the best is if the author reads it. This is pure feelings!!
@@davidsandz2186 different opinions are important! No one ever can match the feelings and motion of the writer. Everyone who comes next is an interpretation. There are very good ones but they always different from the original. To be honest I do not talk about texts that can be dung from everybody that is blah blah blah!
After being a fan of Eric's music for years, I finally got a chance to see him perform in New Jersey about a dozen years ago. He has many fans in the USA.
Absolutely awesome.The lyrics are amazing, how Eric can sing that without cracking up I do not know. it is the Violin that gets me every time I hear this song, it brings so much pathos to it.
My father was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He died when I was a child. This song always reminds me of him. We think of those who died on the Somme, but none of those young men, some but boys, survived unscathed. Such a lovely song always brings tears to my eyes.
@@patrickkoreman7576 Listern to the The Fureys version of Eric Bogle's Green Fields of France and your mind will be blown away. czcams.com/video/XDyip7SIJkQ/video.html
All the way from Broughton fkn tears in my eyes listening to a genuine classic I'm privileged to have heard this man live and Scotland's loss is Australia's gain
I have heard many fine arrangements of your great song Eric. However, few can come near this one, as the recording is just sublime. The fiddle especially adds the tears.
I don't know when I first heard Eric sing this song, but it seems like a lifetime ago now and I have loved it from that day to this. It stirs up a lot of images of someone walking through a war graves cemetery, which is something everyone should have to do. This song turned me against wars when I was a teenager and am still anti war to this day. The sentiments he expresses in this song remind me of some of the old women I knew as a child, who kept a photo of some long lost soul who was taken during that conflict, and we forget that some of them were underage soldiers who ran off to war thinking it was the right thing to do. They were 14 and 15 year olds, and what do we hear now on the news? Boy soldiers in war zones
Any thinking person and most particularly soldier/veterans are 'anti-war'. Sadly though, as recent events have proven, you only need one totalitarian scumbag like Vladimir Putin in a position of power with no moral compass to start a war and then folks' 'anti war' stance is irrelevant. Ordinary people have to pick up a rifle and fight tyranny or succumb to it. Don't get too bent out of shape about 'rich old men' - it's usually about psychopaths. We see them coming but they get away with until it's too late.
I’ll be sure to have my 5 year old son listen to Eric’s songs as an antidote to future conflicts and the accompanying propaganda encouraging him to risk/sacrifice his life for political ends.
Stonyfell , outside of Adelaide was a small group of emergency houses after WW2 for homeless 2/27th Battalion men and their families. My family ended up their after the 1956 Riverland floods for a short period
OMG This touches my soul. How can we continue all this violence? Like Eric Bogle says, unless there is a major shift in perspective, it will continue to happen over, and over, and over again. We need to learn about compassion for all people, and all animals, and all living things.
When I was a teenager, we had an alcoholic living with us whom my father had taken pity on - a Scotsman. We went on holiday and I was in a tent with him. One night he started shouting his head off - "Get down laddy, get down - Oh no, what can I tell your father?". I woke him, he was in a total sweat, shaking and very emotional. He told me he was landing in Normandy in 1944 and he had his best friend's son with him - he was "looking after him". The boy wanted to see where they were going and put his head up over the parapet of the landing craft - he took a round between the eyes. This has haunted him all his life!
What happened to him? And when did that holiday take place? And just because I want to tell it Here's a little story of my great great grandfather: He fought in the war from beginning to end in a special bavarian regiment and he told once that they always had to stuff their dead comrades back into the walls of the trenches in a artillery barrage because the bodies were blown out by shells time and time again. I think he carried some trauma with him too. Although he died sometime in the sixties he's still one of my greatest role models, not just because he survived the great war but also because he was able to keep on living normally afterwards without alcohol. And to the end of the second world War he saved some young boys by sending them away instead of training them, as the Nazis intended because of his military background.
@@durinderunsterbliche6472 It was in the late 1960's. [I think it was Southern-hemisphere Summer of 1966 or 67]. his name was Don Morrison. He was such a great guy when he was sober; he took me under his wing and was like a second father to me. We lost contact, I left home, went studying, flatting, drinking, wenching etc. When I was more mature, I asked dad whatever happened to Don and he told me that the last he had heard from Don was that he had returned to Scotland and apparently married his boyhood sweetheart. Sad, I wish I had been more mature and kept in touch with him - he will be long gone now.
well,well,well, what else can I say,[64yrs] lost my brother vietnam god bless ALL our past and present ANZACS i am now a grandparent, and proud to say that my granddaughter [6 going on 30!!!] lives in a very small country town and has and IS being taught the LEGACY of 'THE ANZACS' as they should be.. my undying love to all that served and yesterday i lost my 92year old UNCLE who served 3 wars FOREVER YOUNG ANNIELEE
As an ex soldier this song hits like a sledge hammer. "My" war was nothing on this scale, but it was just as futile, wasteful and obscene. These lyrics are the most powerful thing about this song. They should never be changed as other renditions do...this is perfection...
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep. All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts. We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives. They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
@@bobapbob5812 They believed they were giving their lives to protect us, they believed they were fighting the forces of tyranny, they believed they were fighting for freedom. The sad tragic truth is they were fighting for our slave masters and for the forces of evil.
@@MegaDavyk Straight up, solid gold truth right there, mate. It both saddens me and angers me when I hear folk talk of how those young boys dying in misery with their guts hanging out crying for their mothers in a stinking shit infested hole, men turned into raging killers, Men turned into bone-shaking wrecks, Men turned into vacuous eyed nothing.... dead and brutalised so we can be here today! The same goes for the Sons of the first war that were butchered in the Second. And Churchill, that Cunt, that vile drunkard bastard lapped it up, reveled in every mad bastard moment of his Glorious Wars. Paid to the hilt, the fucking stooge he was. And I got no truck for Red Poppy, or the White Poppy that gets flashed about, or those so called anti-war protesters that defile monuments, and I care nothing for the monuments them selves, really, I am very indifferent to it all. It all makes me rather solemn and pensive. The whole fucking sorry lot of it, this obsequious Festival of Remembrance, that gets more and more expansive and manipulative the further we get in time from the actual events.... and on top of the popcorn emotion, pride of place is given to the bastards that cause, profit and gain from the death, butchery, and brutality wrought upon my Kin. No more brothers Wars! Though is that an empty determined wish, cos we both know if they want another war on this scale, every one will go marching again. It bewilders me how so many good solid people are so intrinsically naive and easily fooled to swallow the most blatant lies and deceit. See, I can't help but understand that the problem isn't the 1%, but the large portion of the 99% that dance to the tune these parasites sing.... Left Wing, Right Wing are both sides of the same coin tossed by the same hand of control. It would seem that, I have come to think that, every one is predicated towards an intrinsic naive, gullible, ignorant disposition, a disposition that our masters understand implicitly, and have studied microscopically, and play us all... tune perfect. Though we do have, if we allow our selves, the opportunity to understand this natural disposition, and some of the 99% can see the world for the insufferable truth that it is, folk like you and I. But once, in the past I believed, and fell for lies of the Glorious Wars to save us all.
@@TheGeezer30 You have to understand we were bred to be this way. For countless generations the psychopaths who farm us like stupid sheep have culled out the mavericks who opened their eyes and tried to warm their community, horrible fates befell them as the crowd cheered..
Eric Bogle wrote the two best anti-war songs ever imo, this and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Agree. But many other great songs. An absolute legend. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I agree.
Don't forget "My youngest son came home today" was his bitterest anti-violence song
@@thespoon91 By whom?
@@shanedarcy361 same man ..eric bogle..also bringing buddy home..... also...all the fine young men.....also.....the band played waltzing matilda.....and more.
I thought I had heard the best anti war ever with " they band play waltzing matilda", now i cant pick.
Eric Bogle is a genious
Beautiful song. I learned not long ago that my great, great uncle 'joined the great fallen of 1916' from wounds he sustained on the first day of the Somme. He was lost to the family for many years until my uncle discovered him while doing some family-tree research. Thankfully he is now remembered and my uncle travelled to France to put flowers on his grave.
yep.....
So happy he is now remembered & loved. ❤
What a beautiful, emotional song. Our heroes won't be forgotten.
To all those who died in WW1 and WW2. In an attempt to make this world a better place for the generations coming after You. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE
70 YO here, and never tire of this man's brilliance.
The voice, the lyrics, the emotion. We never acknowledge the true costs of war. And we never acknowledge who actually benefits from war, and they just go on to enjoy their riches gained by the blood of the men.
My uncle was killed in WW2. He was 24.
So sorry for your family's great loss. 😢
How Eric isn't a Scottish icon is a mystery this man is up their with Dylan for songwriting a lyricist genius
@@brianforbescolgate2352 that's poss Brian if so it's very petty he's a great songwriter
Eric gave up his Scottishness to stay in the lucky country forever. Tae me he'll always be a Jock.
@@allanwbrown aye he's proud of his border roots , gutterbluid
@@allanwbrown Im from Peebles Scotland I only heard about him from a guy at work in Dublin Ireland mad.
Eric even wrote a song about Bob Dylan
Can you sing any Dylan
One of the most important songs ever written. I'm a descendent of a soldier that fought in The Somme and was forever damaged, waking night after night screaming to his comrades to "get under, lads" meaning to take shelter from an imminent gas attack in the trenches. For anyone to be so mentally mutilated for the rest of his life, by a country that sent him in as cannon fodder, is an obscenity beyond words. This song however comes pretty damn close.
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep.
All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts.
We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives.
They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
And the mud and blood of Flanders.
Graham Lee Kernigan Covered revisited
My two grandfathers were there, on opposite sides.
Only 20,000 dead in one day! No regrets from General Haig.
Men who don't learn from history, repeat it. 😩
Forget the flag-waving, the military parades, nationalism and uniforms. Remembrance Day should be marked by TV and radio reading out the names of all those poor lads who died for the lies and greed of rich old men - and every person in every country should be made to listen to it.
Absolutely right Shaun , when you think WW1 was caused by a bunch of infighting inbred royalty...They were all related, so 20 million people died because of these ba$tards...Eric is a great anti war song writer, on top of that he looks like a great guy...Sadly it makes no difference, a president (Trump) in the has increased the military budget to more than the next 28 combined...Even Obama had to go along with the US war machine, this money would probably end starvation in the world, total madness!!!...
What a great idea,we need a politician to run with this.
Yes, Shaun. Then people might realize it takes more than a year to read through the list. Might set them to thinking.
Should have conscripted and placed on the front line all the feminists of that era.........
I'm with you, man. Imagine listening to all their names one after another. It's never been tried. Some people would just shut down and go to sleep, but many people would be deeply affected, I reckon.
I've lost count of the number of times ive listened to this beautiful song tearsh every tlime
Gods all bless this man and this song
My two Grandfathers fought in suvla Bay, the Somme, yepys. Both came home. Eric Bogle really sums it all up in his songs just like you feel you was there with the diggers. Brilliant really
The most haunting anthem and reminder of what we, today, owe to so many unknown young men who gave their lives. Thank you Eric Bogle.
I've tried singing this song and cannot get very far. As a veteran of another pointless war (Vietnam), it cuts too deep. I was born a year after my uncle was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, and I was named after him. My mother and grandmother never got over his death.
The song is not poingnant perhaps to vietnam or the battle of the bulge.I did the road trip down the route of the battle some years ago at around the same time of year.. I hit Bastonge on the right hand side and sort of glanced and noticed the bullet holes from the road.
Stopping seemed pointless, I had paid respect to the graves in the north already.
I guess one needs to take the trip to see it is a place to get away from for some reason, I never figured why I never wanted to stop off , I just moved to a tank museum further south.
Good trip in the easter break..
I recommend it
Thank you for your service.....
From another Veteran of a foreign war....
Stay safe brother
Probably the greatest song ever written. A masterpiece.
A definite masterpiece and I salute you in your knowledge of what the song represent love from Scotland
@@richardrobertson4318 the most poignant anti war song EVER ???
@@harveystill4549 more so now ,did they really believe that this war would end wars
I've lostcount of the number of times I've watched this clip. Tears every timr!
For Dan 1974-2008 in this faithful heart your still young and carefree. Your devastated wife
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I don’t even know u, but your comment brought a tear to my eye. I’m so sorry for your loss 😖😭
Breaks my heart. I am so sorry and wish you some peace.
I first heard this song as a student in Canada on Remembrance Day. It was on the radio in 1984. Never forgot it but never knew the title. Searched for it years later using remembered lyrics and so grateful to have found it. Beautiful and haunting.
I served 34 years. My family served in every war since the French and Indian War. I understand the sympathies of this song perfectly. Here's a glass to the brothers and sisters I've lost and those who went before me.
medal on it's way to you
I Served 24 Yrs, ill toast with you brother.
@@edwenzel8170 Thank YOU for your service my brother. The best to you as a member of the brotherhood!
@@bipedalame a beer with friends would be even better!
@@bipedalame A Flight Nurse was buried in Los Angelos. As one bitter relative said at the funeral, "She returned with all the useless medals". It took most of 30 years for us to acknowledge the service of the Nurses who served and died in Viet Nam.
From the "War to end wars",
Young Willie McBride it all happened again.
And again and again and again and again!!
We are ALL RESPONSIBLE!
Thank you Mr. Fogle.
How is possible to write such beautiful lyrics and a beautiful piece of music at the same time and then perform it better than anyone could imagine?
Amazing performance...
Profound words...
Let them seep into your hearts...
@@aliceskewthorpe8991 It's called genius...pure and simple.
I've seen him live a few times -Port Fairy, Echuca etc. Always sincere, and had a broad range of topics. Fun recordings, sad recordings. All of them great.
My Grandmother lost her husband during WW2, he was over 50 and had gone through all of WW1 but was kept on in the RN because WW2 had started, he was on the Hood between the wars and was transferred to HMS Galatea, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. She kept a picture of him on her mantelpiece, and a glass cabinet was almost a shrine to him. This song always reminds me of her, and the Grandad I never knew.
My father served on the HMS Aurora in WW2,His best friend died on the HMS Hood.
I'm proud of him and I have no family connections.
Great post mate, from another Kelly who served.
I just visited Flanders Fields and some of the many soldier cemeteries around Ypres and then I wondered about the stupidity, vanity, and greed of the men that caused the catastrophe in which so many young people lost their lives or were maimed for life. "lest we forget" is inscribed on the Menin Gate, and reading the words I thought about how soon we forgot the lessons of WWI. Humanity will never learn.
Makes me cry every damn time i hear it.
2022 I am a Yank and just found this. I had heard this song many times, but this is something else to hear the composer doing this song. Let us all never forget...
As an soldier inte been trough two wars.. And i'm crying like an Child. We are all fooled..
As a Germam.. A wunderfull Song.. Thank you!
It applies equally to the foot soldiers on all sides. I don't believe for one minute, that the ordinary Russian wants to be involved in the present conflict. :-((
Sad and beautiful song, Eric is a superb singer/song writer.
If this doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you're not human.
I’m not human..
I watched it in school we were supposed to do a task and it was to think of 1 word about this song and I was unsure but my teacher put it on again and then I thought again (my thoughts words) “I think William McBride was all about BRAVERY “
I would’ve cried tho
This song says it all.
Fought in the Angolan War in the 80's. Of British blood. Brings tears to my eyes
Fearless songwriter thank you Eric reminds us of our humanity. Those who will listen anyway
My grandfather survived WW1 with great luck as a damaged person, physically and of course psychically. But apparently he wasn't damned enough to be sent again in WW2 with the age of 44 years. In the meantime his young wife had died leaving three children, one of them my father. I was lucky to have a grandfather who had so much love for his grandchildren, we learned so much with him. But he was a broken man at all. Never talking about his war experience, only desperatly crying at night. No man can imagine, what he has seen, which fear he had to suffer hiding jews in the nazi time ... Would someone exchange lifetime with him? Or isn't peace a much better decision?
My grandfather survived Gallipoli - 3rd Lighthorse Brigade, and died many years later a staunch Communist.
And now we have war again in Europe. And you find me in despair. What happened to the world, that one hazardeur puts the world into another Willi McBrieds destiny again?
Hauntingly beautiful.
This is a excellent rendition of this song performed by the writer Eric Bogle.
Beautiful 😍 🤩 👌.
Love from Scotland
Thirty four years of service, this rips me heart out. God bless those who served with me and the loved ones they left. Why was I left? Alcohol and time doesn't give me an answer. Bless my friends, hopefully I'll see you soon.
This is so sad and so beautiful at the same time ❤️
This live performance is the best version of the song in my opinion.
Einzigartig
Look up "The green fields of France finbar furey and Christy dignam" it's another excellent albeit short version
Yes, @@respectedbeetle6955 that version does very fine instrumentation, but they screw up the wonderful lyrics in several places.
Yes, this performance is my favourite too. Christy Dignam does a great job too, his Irish tone fits well with this.
A song that was written about the First World War , but yet it really continues to be valid in how it relates not just to WW I , but it really now covers all of the war and conflicts that have been fought since , the questions asked to Willie McBride would be relevant to be asked to any of our fallen soldiers , sailors , marines , and airmen .
One of the greatest songs of it's genre. Of any genre.
Wonderful just wonderful
Wow. And damn the politicians who think war is an alternative to bargain with. Have always cried with these songs, but my own regrets, thank you for spreading the word.
You've been gifted Eric Bogle...this and Waltzing Matilda prove how humans are sacrificed by cowardly unseen forces...the puppeteers...as is happening now across the World...thank you.
A perfect folk song. SOB....Wish I wrote it. There's time. Oh yes my friend there is time.
No words necessary-- just tears. My great uncle was an army officer and died at Gallipoli.
and it happens again and again, peace now is theirs
My great great uncle died in action in France in 1918.
If you do not already know the song, go listen to Bogle's "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
@@katyapartan8577Love that song, and yes I have heard it many times.
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep. All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts. We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives. They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
Whagt a great tune. Awesome song writer...
The last concert that I seen with my dad, was Eric in Irvine. A moment for me that will stay for many years. Huge thanks as it was just my dad the night before I got married. the best Stag do with only two people ever.
Thanks Eric.
I visited the graves in Northern Thailand (river Kawai) was heartbroken at so many young men and women buried there, found many from my home city. War as an act is NOT something to be glorified - war should be despised as the wanton act it is.
All my heartfelt love, respect, admiration, and veneration rightly given to the people who did not survive, all heroes.
I too visited the War Graves at Kanchanaburi...,,,,,Near River Kwai Bridge,,,,,the beautifully kept graves,,,,,,and the Ages of some buries there was so sad.
I too visited Kanchanaburi,,,,River Kwai War Cemetary....Beautifully kept.....Tragic to see the Names and Ages of those buried there.
So many of those poor lads were abused and worked to death.
My wife and I had breakfast with Eric and John in Rotherham the morning after seeing them live, what a surprise, we had booked into the B&B not knowing 🥰 and he signed The Dreamer album I bought. Fantastic artists and decent human beings 😎
Absolutely Beautiful!!!✝️✝️🇱🇷🇱🇷👏👏👏👍👍🌹🌹❤️❤️💕💗💓
This is my deceased brothers fav song he loved Eric bogle love from Midlothian
Every time I hear this song I've got tears in my eyes because I think of my great uncle who I found out about in the family bible he was killed in action aged 19 2 weeks before the war was finished his older brothers felt survivors guilt god bless all who serve their country's
Another beautiful, anti war rendition against the insanity of war. Well done, Eric!
Yes, it should be an Aussie evergreen ... a song never forgotten!
Came across My Youngest son came home today by Eric bogle, he knows how to make people think about war. Also another war song As if He Knows , heart breaking
Was lucky to have seen Eric live in concert on numerous times when he lived in Australia. Genius song writer with also a sense of humour, I remember his shows he would have you laughing with one song and in tears with the next.
Unparalleled.
This is by far the best version of this song! If the writer of a song sings his song, it cannot be done better! It is the same with a book, the best is if the author reads it. This is pure feelings!!
Listern to the The Fureys version of Eric Bogle's Green Fields of France and your mind will be blown away.
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I agree with your first sentence...and there are so many examples to disprove your second...but your third, omg, that's just nonsense.
@@davidsandz2186 different opinions are important!
No one ever can match the feelings and motion of the writer. Everyone who comes next is an interpretation. There are very good ones but they always different from the original.
To be honest I do not talk about texts that can be dung from everybody that is blah blah blah!
After being a fan of Eric's music for years, I finally got a chance to see him perform in New Jersey about a dozen years ago. He has many fans in the USA.
Spence I will always think of you when I hear this version. Rest well brother!
6th RAR Long Tan
Absolutely awesome.The lyrics are amazing, how Eric can sing that without cracking up I do not know.
it is the Violin that gets me every time I hear this song, it brings so much pathos to it.
This haunting meditation has been in my consciousness for the last five days.
My father was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He died when I was a child. This song always reminds me of him. We think of those who died on the Somme, but none of those young men, some but boys, survived unscathed. Such a lovely song always brings tears to my eyes.
Eric is a public treasure. Trouble is no politician listens.
Beautiful harmonies.
Have loved and cherished this song since hearing it in the early 80s. I will perform it in my neighborhood tomorrow on Memorial Day.
This is the best version ever, by the writer of this great lament, the great Eric Bogle.
I couldn't agree more .....
@@patrickkoreman7576 Listern to the The Fureys version of Eric Bogle's Green Fields of France and your mind will be blown away.
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Listern to the The Fureys version of Eric Bogle's Green Fields of France and your mind will be blown away.
czcams.com/video/XDyip7SIJkQ/video.html
Eric Bogle, Another one of your songs that sends chills up and down my spine!
Brilliant!! So sad, the war to end all wars?Yea right.Beautiful violin
Great, Eric.. beyond words.. thank you so much!
What a beautiful memorial song. Thank, Eric.
First time I have heard this ,how beautiful
All the way from Broughton fkn tears in my eyes listening to a genuine classic I'm privileged to have heard this man live and Scotland's loss is Australia's gain
I have heard many fine arrangements of your great song Eric. However, few can come near this one, as the recording is just sublime. The fiddle especially adds the tears.
The lady playing the fiddle is Verity Trueman from Red Gum
I don't know when I first heard Eric sing this song, but it seems like a lifetime ago now and I have loved it from that day to this. It stirs up a lot of images of someone walking through a war graves cemetery, which is something everyone should have to do. This song turned me against wars when I was a teenager and am still anti war to this day. The sentiments he expresses in this song remind me of some of the old women I knew as a child, who kept a photo of some long lost soul who was taken during that conflict, and we forget that some of them were underage soldiers who ran off to war thinking it was the right thing to do. They were 14 and 15 year olds, and what do we hear now on the news? Boy soldiers in war zones
I went through the same experience as a child when I first watched All Quiet On The Western Front.
Any thinking person and most particularly soldier/veterans are 'anti-war'. Sadly though, as recent events have proven, you only need one totalitarian scumbag like Vladimir Putin in a position of power with no moral compass to start a war and then folks' 'anti war' stance is irrelevant. Ordinary people have to pick up a rifle and fight tyranny or succumb to it. Don't get too bent out of shape about 'rich old men' - it's usually about psychopaths. We see them coming but they get away with until it's too late.
Beautiful violin playing.
How in holy hell can you write the most note perfect song about the horrors of war *ever* (Matilda) and then somehow do it again (green fields)?
Both songs brings chills to my spine!
Eric Bogle is an icon with a way of absoluteiy telling it how it really isThat said,Bob Dylan'sMasters of War is as stark,and well worth looking up.
I agree completely--well said. i'd hate to meet the 13 people that dislike this one or the 167 that didn't like "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda."
I have written the same sentiment, all require psychiatric help! and I'm not normally mean, served 21 years
absolutely agree with you
Fantastic song, fantastic band!
Always brings a tear to my eyes
Eric is a legend, spot on lyrics. Should get higher recognition!
Just beautiful - but it always makes me cry . .
Eric Bogle is a legend. The Fureys and davey arthur have a great version of this classic
Great, thank you, Eric! ♥
I’ll be sure to have my 5 year old son listen to Eric’s songs as an antidote to future conflicts and the accompanying propaganda encouraging him to risk/sacrifice his life for political ends.
Amazing song, for peace and freedom
what a great song. Tears on my face. Also thank you Emma for your great Violine!
Stonyfell , outside of Adelaide was a small group of emergency houses after WW2 for homeless 2/27th Battalion men and their families. My family ended up their after the 1956 Riverland floods for a short period
Stop tears in my eyes
OMG This touches my soul. How can we continue all this violence? Like Eric Bogle says, unless there is a major shift in perspective, it will continue to happen over, and over, and over again. We need to learn about compassion for all people, and all animals, and all living things.
great songwriter, great singer, great songs, such feel and meaning
War solves nothing, never has, never will yet the craziness goes on...
When I was a teenager, we had an alcoholic living with us whom my father had taken pity on - a Scotsman. We went on holiday and I was in a tent with him. One night he started shouting his head off - "Get down laddy, get down - Oh no, what can I tell your father?". I woke him, he was in a total sweat, shaking and very emotional. He told me he was landing in Normandy in 1944 and he had his best friend's son with him - he was "looking after him". The boy wanted to see where they were going and put his head up over the parapet of the landing craft - he took a round between the eyes. This has haunted him all his life!
What happened to him? And when did that holiday take place? And just because I want to tell it Here's a little story of my great great grandfather: He fought in the war from beginning to end in a special bavarian regiment and he told once that they always had to stuff their dead comrades back into the walls of the trenches in a artillery barrage because the bodies were blown out by shells time and time again. I think he carried some trauma with him too. Although he died sometime in the sixties he's still one of my greatest role models, not just because he survived the great war but also because he was able to keep on living normally afterwards without alcohol. And to the end of the second world War he saved some young boys by sending them away instead of training them, as the Nazis intended because of his military background.
@@durinderunsterbliche6472 It was in the late 1960's. [I think it was Southern-hemisphere Summer of 1966 or 67]. his name was Don Morrison. He was such a great guy when he was sober; he took me under his wing and was like a second father to me. We lost contact, I left home, went studying, flatting, drinking, wenching etc. When I was more mature, I asked dad whatever happened to Don and he told me that the last he had heard from Don was that he had returned to Scotland and apparently married his boyhood sweetheart. Sad, I wish I had been more mature and kept in touch with him - he will be long gone now.
@@Kysushanz At least he got a good end to his story. Thank you for the answer. And hopefully Don will be remembered for a long time.
I am glad it was a scotsman
As a Scot also
We sing this about anti war
And how nasty English where
So ta.
well,well,well, what else can I say,[64yrs] lost my brother vietnam god bless ALL our past and present ANZACS i am now a grandparent, and proud to say that my granddaughter [6 going on 30!!!] lives in a very small country town and has and IS being taught the LEGACY of 'THE ANZACS' as they should be.. my undying love to all that served and yesterday i lost my
92year old UNCLE who served 3 wars FOREVER YOUNG ANNIELEE
good to hear eric sing his own song.
As an ex soldier this song hits like a sledge hammer. "My" war was nothing on this scale, but it was just as futile, wasteful and obscene.
These lyrics are the most powerful thing about this song. They should never be changed as other renditions do...this is perfection...
Its about hating u all!!-
This man is up there with the very top of this world's writers
My grandfather died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. RIP those who died to protect us.
The psychopaths who rule over us, Fleece us and slaughter us like sheep, causing untold misery and pain yet they never loose a moments sleep.
All wars are Bankers Wars, they loan money to both sides with cross guarantees all debts will be paid, enslaving future generations to pay of the debts.
We get our Sons and Fathers killed or broken and our Daughters raped, our children grandchildren and even great grandchildren get to pay off the bill for their entire lives.
They can only do this to us because we let them, we just can't believe they knew exactly what they were doing, when will we never learn, when will we ever learn.
Did they die to protect us??
@@bobapbob5812 They believed they were giving their lives to protect us, they believed they were fighting the forces of tyranny, they believed they were fighting for freedom. The sad tragic truth is they were fighting for our slave masters and for the forces of evil.
@@MegaDavyk Straight up, solid gold truth right there, mate.
It both saddens me and angers me when I hear folk talk of how those young boys dying in misery with their guts hanging out crying for their mothers in a stinking shit infested hole, men turned into raging killers, Men turned into bone-shaking wrecks, Men turned into vacuous eyed nothing.... dead and brutalised so we can be here today! The same goes for the Sons of the first war that were butchered in the Second. And Churchill, that Cunt, that vile drunkard bastard lapped it up, reveled in every mad bastard moment of his Glorious Wars. Paid to the hilt, the fucking stooge he was.
And I got no truck for Red Poppy, or the White Poppy that gets flashed about, or those so called anti-war protesters that defile monuments, and I care nothing for the monuments them selves, really, I am very indifferent to it all. It all makes me rather solemn and pensive. The whole fucking sorry lot of it, this obsequious Festival of Remembrance, that gets more and more expansive and manipulative the further we get in time from the actual events.... and on top of the popcorn emotion, pride of place is given to the bastards that cause, profit and gain from the death, butchery, and brutality wrought upon my Kin. No more brothers Wars! Though is that an empty determined wish, cos we both know if they want another war on this scale, every one will go marching again.
It bewilders me how so many good solid people are so intrinsically naive and easily fooled to swallow the most blatant lies and deceit. See, I can't help but understand that the problem isn't the 1%, but the large portion of the 99% that dance to the tune these parasites sing.... Left Wing, Right Wing are both sides of the same coin tossed by the same hand of control.
It would seem that, I have come to think that, every one is predicated towards an intrinsic naive, gullible, ignorant disposition, a disposition that our masters understand implicitly, and have studied microscopically, and play us all... tune perfect. Though we do have, if we allow our selves, the opportunity to understand this natural disposition, and some of the 99% can see the world for the insufferable truth that it is, folk like you and I. But once, in the past I believed, and fell for lies of the Glorious Wars to save us all.
@@TheGeezer30 You have to understand we were bred to be this way. For countless generations the psychopaths who farm us like stupid sheep have culled out the mavericks who opened their eyes and tried to warm their community, horrible fates befell them as the crowd cheered..
I saw Eric Bogle perform this at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.