The story of Willie McBride

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@AllansStation Жыл бұрын

Aged 93,l still remember some of survivors ( including my father, who had been badly wounded but survived the battle of the Somme=) He put it all behind him and never spoke of it.

@kattkatt5564 Жыл бұрын

I remember a pin-back button I used to have in the 60s/70s- ‘What if they gave a war and nobody came?’ After all, in most wars it’s only the leaders who profit. If the ‘leaders’ started a war, and the peasants (on all sides) refused to fight, there wouldn’t be a war. Put the leaders in a ring to fight each other. I bet they would be too cowardly to actually do the fighting themselves.

@annmoles3584 Жыл бұрын

I heard a three year old say the same thing, he said why don't the bosses fight meaning the presidents when he heard his great grandad was killed in the Vietnam war this was in 2016.

@davidpowell6098 Жыл бұрын

I had the poster on my wall, in an army camp, some of us will never learn.

@patbyrne5576 Жыл бұрын

Young men die fighting old men’s wars.

@davidpowell6098 Жыл бұрын

@@patbyrne5576 To make those old men rich.

@nomadpi1 Жыл бұрын

Your comment is a dead horse. Its bones have been flailed every year since Cain found Abel alone. The problem is that ambitious men are born into each generation. The leaders don't fight because there are also followers born into each generation. And followers also have followers...

@nicholaspatton1742 Жыл бұрын

If they didn't do any of it, this song does it all, for them all. They do not grow old........

@andreabest9336 Жыл бұрын

Heard Eric Bogle sing this song in Hamilton New Zealand a few months - he's still in fine voice and his song is still just as powerful. LDB

@Maggy47 Жыл бұрын

So sad So many died in war our world leaders will never learn from history

@jaswmclark Жыл бұрын

And an American President had the shameful audacity to call them "Losers and Suckers".

@jaswmclark Жыл бұрын

And an American President had the shameful audacity to call them "Losers and Suckers".

@heathergipps251 Жыл бұрын

They will never learn ❤😢

@nomadpi1 Жыл бұрын

Heather, it's not that they'll never learn, it's that ambitious men are born into each generation.

@Rogster559 Жыл бұрын

Heather it is not the men who fight that need to learn , they go where they are told and do what they are told without question , it is the people who stay out of the conflict just give orders that need to learn

@bunnykins8301 Жыл бұрын

I was working in Belgium, and the graves were so humbling 😢😢😢

@colinb8103 Жыл бұрын

I think people really believed it was the war to end wars ,they thought that no one would want to repeat what had happened

@annmoles3584 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately our leaders and politicians have other plans

@Bruce-1956 Жыл бұрын

I was taught in the '60s by a WW1 veteran who told stories of the trenches and the advantages of wearing a kilt when 'going over the top'.

@annedane8934 Жыл бұрын

In 1915 my dear old Dad lied about his age so he could go, as a second lieutenant in the British Machine Gun Corps, into combat. He was shot through the lung the first time he went over the top, and barely survived. He told the story with humility and humor. He never saw himself as a hero. The experience turned him against the cult of heroism in war.

@nomadpi1 Жыл бұрын

My mother's family grave lots have 2 widows buried there whose husband disappeared into the mud of Europe. Take care Anne.

@karlfurrutter14 Жыл бұрын

I had grandfather's, and other family on both sides (British and German) of both world wars. Even though I was born in '69, I kind of lived in the ghosts of those wars, till the relevant people died off.

@pfdrtom Жыл бұрын

So...this means you're a very old lady, Anne. Congratulations!

@markduffield8110 Жыл бұрын

Plato said only the dead have seen the end of war God bless all those who sacrifice for family & country

@steven117 Жыл бұрын

Death to war...

@thomasquinn9183 Жыл бұрын

Stiff little fingers version is gritty and the best version I have heard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@johnsometimeswrong8742 Жыл бұрын

The Irish have this one covered Lads..try Finbar Furey singing this phenominal..

@davidpowell6098 Жыл бұрын

And Davey Arthur, excellent version.

@paulwoolley4957 Жыл бұрын

The original by

@tacfoley4443 Жыл бұрын

His rough 'ould voice suits the song to a tee. I saw them live in Dundalk many years ago. VERY moving.

@staffy4389 Жыл бұрын

Not wrong this time John,,, Gob fluck Agus bas in Eire...Not exact spelling, but may you die in Ireland, with a drink in your hand....

@bernicewade9796 Жыл бұрын

@@paulwoolley4957 Eric Bogle wrote and performed it first. Scottish born-Austrilian

@AliciaNyblade 9 ай бұрын

This is an absolutely incredible song. It pays tribute to the bravery of the soldiers while also being one of the best anti-war songs ever written. Because, yes, one can "support the troops", as in be grateful for their sacrifice, and simultaneously be against the concept of war, especially given that the leaders of nations are often so quick to start wars because they know THEY won't be the ones on the battlefield; it'll be the common people fighting and suffering the most. To everyone who has served or is currently serving, and to your families and friends, thank you.

@annedane8934 6 ай бұрын

Bring'em home! Bring'em home!

@ronaldstewart2532 2 жыл бұрын

No Man's Land - Eric Bogle

@jacquismith3277 Жыл бұрын

Yes, Eric Bogle sings it beautifully. ❤❤

@paulwoolley4957 Жыл бұрын

The original by Eric Bogle is the best version regardless of how many people sing it

@jacquismith3277 Жыл бұрын

@@paulwoolley4957 You are absolutely right.

@gwennethscullion9582 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou, greetings from Londonderry

@RFWieder Жыл бұрын

Since man first stood erect men have fought and died, for their tribe, their country, their God!! I hope there is a place where they have found peace!!

@lukeevans729 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@christopheroneil3375 Жыл бұрын

#finbar furey-christy dignam (beautiful version)🍀💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🍀

@maryfarrell1120 Жыл бұрын

Dunbar Furey is the only man that can sing this ballad as if he were speaking to Willie Mc Bride .

@maryfarrell1120 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve heard quite a few different singers and I’m always drawn back to Finbar Furey and his banjo , it makes the hairs on my neck stand too attention. Sorry I’ve just seen my typo mistake with my first post.

@MrConan89 Жыл бұрын

The Furey version is garbage IMHO.

@maryfarrell1120 Жыл бұрын

Maybe you’re not Irish ☘️ I’m living in my motherland and speak her language. You’re entitled to your opinion as am I , you should familiarize yourself with the Fureys music and remember whilst listening to their music that they’re a part of the traveling community in Ireland and they came from nothing , these are an example” of we can achieve anything if we want it’ just humble people doing what they know best.

@MrConan89 Жыл бұрын

@@maryfarrell1120 I also came from 'nothing'. So what?

@tomasofaolain3117 Жыл бұрын

@@maryfarrell1120 well said Mary they are a great musical family I love listening to their music talented them all

@susansmart1550 Жыл бұрын

Wow heartbreaking ❤

@alisonharvey4758 Жыл бұрын

Eric Bogle

@elizabeth10392 Жыл бұрын

For me, the man who wrote it, Eric Bogle, sings it best 🙂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5Nja7NzxJvTqpc.html

@anthonywalsh7613 Жыл бұрын

The Cinderella Soldiers(The Liverpool Irish)

@Steamtramman719 Жыл бұрын

And Korea, the forgotten war (almost) and Malaya - invisible enemy........

@26mcgettrick Жыл бұрын

Written in Canberra by Eric Bogle.

@daveh5947 Жыл бұрын

PAINFUL....!!!

@BennyandBoppy1690 Жыл бұрын

Great version of this song..

@gondwanaland3238 11 ай бұрын

I love it too.

@Smee86 9 ай бұрын

😮 I Believe Willy and MacBride might of been about young children who lost loved ones.

@ladymeghenderson9337 Жыл бұрын

Lest we forget

@susannaude8514 Жыл бұрын

And still there are way too many power hungry men in the world...

@sue9151 Жыл бұрын

Man never learns by history and keeps repeating it for what .

@jackfletcher1000 Жыл бұрын

Even worse than the murder inflicted on this great song by Finbar Furey.

@howbizarrepodcast5421 Жыл бұрын

They all fell for the old damned lie : dulce et decorum est pro patria mori