The Young'uns - "Between The Wars" v2
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2015
- The Young'uns perform a Capella a song written by Billy Bragg called "Between The Wars".
Recorded 'In The Moment' on Thursday February 19, 2015 at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, Mo #forbiddenfolk
www.theyounguns.co.uk - Hudba
Didn't think anyone could match Billy Bragg's awesome tune. Brilliant.
Would love them to do 'World turned upside down'.
That's a Leon Rosselson song, but Billy's version is great.
How have I missed these lads ? They are bloody marvellous !
Love it. This song was always one of my favourites. Great rendition
Excellent guys. I’ve recently recorded my own version as a pure hobby.
Great Cover Well Done My Friends
I just saw these guys sing this at the millrace folk festival. They're my new favourite band.
+Direwolf202 I just saw the lads sing at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. They're my new favourite band.
I saw these lads at the Calgary Folk Festival, I drove 500 miles to see them and Oysterband. Worth every second of the 9 hour drive, I have to say. Right now, they are my favorite band, tied with Oysterband, in fact.
Mesmerising rendition!
Incredible
Incredible!
Brilliant.
Hi I was in ur zoom call in bma for stagecoaches
Come back to Oz soon lads XXX
They came to my school
Superb.
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What I don’t understand is this song sounds like they’re anti war when it comes to WW2 but then they also sing a song about how wonderful the battle cable street was. So are they for or against physical opposition to fascism?
I guess you would have to ask them.
Read about the Battle of Cable Street; then you should understand.
I think the point if the song is that if the government did a better job of ensuring a living wage job guarantee of full employment people would be less likely to choose violent, extreme authoritarian "solutions" so that there is a just peace and we are less likely to have wars.
N.B Did anyone die at Cable street?
Will Richardson Yes. Absolutely that is what they're singing about. This is not about either WW1 or WW2. It is about the prosperity and stability enjoyed by hard-working people between 1918 and 1939. It was trade unions and humane social policy that built this social stability. As a result, England was a country that largely espoused 'sweet moderation', and did not succumb to dictators and fascists. The song ends with a plea that humane social and economic policies prevail, that people are afforded 'a living wage' and thereby a good life. At the end of the song, the English working classes stand now between the ideological wars of rampant corporate capitalism on the one hand, and respect and economic justice for working people on the other. Lovely, powerful song. My Dad, who came of age in England 'between the wars', and who later brought us, his family, to Canada in 1952, used always to say that 'the greatest enemy of communism and totalitarianism, is socialism'. The United States would do very well to heed that maxim in these frightening political times under trump.