"It all happened again and again and again and again and again" To me, that is the saddest part of the song. WWI wasn't the end of all wars as so many had hopped, it was the catalyst for the worst crime in human history and and an endless series of wars.

Every single year on Memorial Day, I make it a point to listen to this song.

Ive been singing this song to myself for 10 years and i still cant sing this song without getting at least a little teary eyed.

This is without question one of the most emotional songs I've ever heard. It doesn't matter who does the cover. It's always so moving.

This St. Patrick's Day, I spent the day I listened to nothing but Irish Rebel Songs, and today, I adapted the lyrics of this haunting song in honor of my Brother in Battle - Sunny - who died in my arms on Flag Day 1968. It is called The Green Fields of Arlington.

I am French and above all, I am Picard, a Picard who lives in the Somme. France celebrates Verdun but here we celebrate the Battle of the Somme. We are proud of you and even though I believe that all of this was for nothing, we thank you anyway. Today the roadsides are full of poppies, my daughter cut herself on a schrapnell (a severed tendon in the middle finger) and a farmer killed himself with a grenade ... The First World War continues to take its toll.

As a former soldier who lost 6 brothers to Afghanistan, this song means more to me than most will ever understand.

My father fought in WW2 though he would never talk about it. This song gives me chills.

I used to hate this as a kid, I was associating it with drunken parties, now I understand why my mum & dad loved it so much.

I adore this song. Brigs tears to my eyes.

This song gives me chills every time I hear it. I've lost friends on and off the battlefield, and this song resonates so damn hard.

I recently lost my beloved dog Rocky to old age and natural causes, he left us peacefully, surrounded by love and his favorite people and his toys, and the last thing he heard was me telling him "I'm so proud of you, I love you" and this song was playing as he crossed the Rainbow Bridge. I didn't pick the song, his vet did, she's that good, and that meant the world to me. I can't not cry when I hear this song, I can see my Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rocky up there playing with those boys we lost, and all the other pets we miss so much, but I know he's waiting for me.

I'm the son of a military historian and former sailor! My great-grandfather on my dad's side fought on the Allied side at Vimy Ridge and my paternal grandfather was a peacekeeper in Korea and Congo. My father was in the Royal Canadian Navy when the Persian Gulf War broke out and he survived the war! I have a cousin who is in the U.S. Navy!

i can’t listen to this song without shedding tears

Listening at the end of a week of touring the western front, such a moving experience dedicated to my great uncle Thomas Reuben Bull killed 28th June 1917 aged 23 Leicesters We Will Remember Them

The song pipes of peace about the Christmas truce between British and German Soldiers also tells a moving story about that era and how most Soldiers on both sides have more in common than they realize no matter what side they fight for. Being homesick is one of those things. I still rember the Christmas of 2003 when my Mom told my adopted Dad and that the three of house should be thankful to eat Christmas dinner together since so many other people could couldn't be with thier families that year. A MASH episode in which a homesick Rader watches a home movie from the States and says goodbye to his Mom still sticks with me to this very day because my Grandmon Thomas watched it with us and felt empathy for Rader. She really feeling empathy for all of the homesick Ametican Soldiers she knew of from WW1 to Vietnam.

Can’t believe how emotional this song is.. It’s not only the fate of “Willie McBride” and the unspeakable tragedy that was WW1 but also the fact that WW1 basically was the start of one long conflict that didn’t end until the fall of the Berlin Wall.. And the fact that new conflicts emerge “again and again and again”.. beyond “the Green Fields of France”. A masterpiece🙏

this shit gets me every time. the last verse.

Today is Nov.11th @ 11:36am and we've had this on repeat here at work since 11:11am.

Maybe someday , years and years from now, I will be able to listen to this song without being moved to tears. But I doubt it.

This song by this band speaks to me! I hear it and I have to sing along. I can feel the emotion and picture the story told, and it moves my soul like the ocean.

My Great Uncle fought in WWII and was shot down over the Netherlands. This song makes me think of him and brings a tear to my eye.

I come from a military family, in the First World War we had 8 family members serve, four of them were brothers, Andrew(survived Gallipoli and France) George (killed passchendaele) James(killed hill 60) Robert(killed Gallipoli) Andrew was the only one to return. God save them. We will remember them.

Dropkick Murphys For this song - Genius - One of the GREAT songs of the last 12 Decades. well Done Boyos!🏅BloodRed.🍒

William McBride, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, KIA 22nd April 1916 LWF

Heard this song sang so many ways but Al Barr nailed it what a voice for any music!

Thank you for your serve to all the men and women Who are in the army navy Air Force Marines and coast Guard god bless you 🇺🇸

This song connects to me so deep. My great great uncles all fought in WW2. Jack was a 101st Airborne, the rest were marines. My great grandfather, who was from Germany, was in the U.S Navy, fighting against his uncle, who was an SS officer. This song connects to all the wars, no matter which side. At the end of the day, there are no bad guys at war, there are the ones who follow orders and the ones who give orders. Us peasantry will never command our troops, the greedy rich will forever send our children to get slaughtered.

Get one last good laugh, hire someone to sing this at your funeral everyone would cry like babies lol

This song also reminds of something one of my Pastors at G.U.M.C. named Tom Derough said(I apologize ahead of time if I misspelled your last name Tom) He said during the two World Wars both American and German Soldiers who belt buckles saying God was on thier side. He said he would like to think God wasn't on anyone's side expect the mothers who lost sons, the wives who lost husbands and children. Who lost fathers weather they fought for the allies or Germany.

Every single year.. and this one is no different. This is the ONLY song that makes me cry. I wish the world wasn’t this way, but it will continue to be so until that hopeful day it isn’t. Sgt. Chris Crum and Spc. Thomas “Joker” Lutz, you will truly always be revered and forever remembered fondly, brothers. PATRIOT Missile Operator 2001-2005 Iraq - April 2003

I’ve listened to this song for at least fifty years but I just found this version. I love it.

I've been thinking what song would legitimately play at my funeral, and I discovered this song... Now I have to write it down. It's... emotional.

My Great uncle Willie fell in the Ainse-Marne offensive. August 5th 1918.

I'm a Vietnam vet and a singer - unable to sing this without losing my composure - as do many other songs.

I served in the USMC. Miss all my fallen comrades.

On loop 🔁 🛡🪖🛡🪖 🪶 🖤

Beautifully sung .

yes... Your ears have been baptized

Saw this band at the old Expo 86 site in Vancouver, it was good friendly but hard hitting mosh pit.

This is irish music for irish people but the rest of the world can listen to music that means something god bless ireland

I noticed that I'm not the only one who has a visceral reaction every time this song plays.

RIP Andrew Larsen, Jan 26, 1984 - Jan 7, 2024

And yet it's still happening today and tomorrow 😓

Which is even worse? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined And though you died back in 1916 To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen Or are you a stranger without even a name Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame

so powerful

I remember listening to this when NUFC got relegated, it means nothing, but I love this song no matter what, rest in peace all those who have fallen.

... it all happened again, and again, and again

its amazing songs, everytime i'm listening..

Powerful stuff, yet somehow calming and reassuring

Thank you Willie. Some of us antied up.

RIP Sean Rooney 2022 🇮🇪❤

Im listening to this in 2022 hoping we're not on the brink of the next worse war in history. Apparently no amount of blood can be spilled that will keep us from doing this again.

I never had the Honor of Serving in the Marine Corps. I couldn't hide my heart condition. It didn't work....I think of it every day. I remember being a child on 9/11. Feeling the burn of anger and the sting of tears as we watched the news and watched in disbelief. I'll never forget. And I'll never forget being turned down to Serve. Thank you for All who Have. Current, Past, and Future. Semper Fi.

This is such a beautiful song

WW1 was known as 'The War to end all Wars'.... if only, huh? Well Willy McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again ! 🥀

Gets to me everytime I hear it

I am having this one at my funeral. Cool as fuck.

Ps I heard the Irish born entertainer Ken McBride sing this song a while back. It was very emotional then but after my Uncle Phil passed away in 2010 the verses about the pipes and drums make choke up because they did play the pipes and drums at his funeral. He died of an infection not in battle. However he survived at last one tour of duty in South Korea during the late 1960s. Since the fighting along the DMZ continued long after the 1953 Truce being in South Korea then was as being in Vietnam. My cousin Andrew who of course is also his son and I were always proud of his service.

Again..and again and again and again.

Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride? Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside And rest for a while in the warm summer sun? I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the great fallen in 1916 Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean Oh, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined? And though you died back in 1916, to that loyal heart, you're forever nineteen Or are you a stranger without even a name? Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame? Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? The sun's shining down on these green fields of France The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance The trenches have vanished long under the plough No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now But here, in this graveyard, it's still no-man's-land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man And a whole generation were butchered and damned Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And I can't help but wonder, now Willie McBride Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame The killing and dying, it was all done in vain Oh, Willie McBride, it all happened again And again, and again, and again, and again Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Rest in peace my extended family who fought for the Fatherland in the great war. Wilhelm Friedrich born December 11, 1880. Kill in action on the 26 of Aug. 1917 Friedrich born September 5, 1884. Kill in action on July 28 1918 in France. Johann Gottfried born August 6, 1886. Went missing in action on the 30 of August 1914. All three brothers never to return back home -Love from your American cousin.

What a talent, the same man wrote 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'The Green Fields Of France'. There is great German version of the latter by Hannes Wader 'Es ist an der Zeit'.

This is a sad song to begin with but it's even sader to listen to know when I am reminded of all of my fellow Americans who were probably only 19 when they died places my places like Beirut Lebanon, Grenada, Panama , Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq. I only mention these place because I am old enough to rember those wars. Of course the deaths of Americans and people of several other different nationalities who died in the two World Wars and Cold War conflicts are equally tragic. Ireland saw a lot of tragedy from 1914-1923. Irishmen fought and died in the Trenches of France and Belguim. There were also conflicts on thier own soil like the 1916 Easter. Rebellion, Guerilla campaigns fought from.1916-1921 the Irish Civil War fought from 1922-23 between the IRA and Free Staters. Sorry to bore you with the history lesson however with a group named Drop Kick Murphys singing this song it's for me not to think of Ireland and the ordeals she faced over the centuries. Shout out the late King Brian Boru who died leading the. Defense of his country against Viking Invaders in 1014 AD if there isn't a song for him yet there should be.

God bless ya’z.

This is an angry rendition. Thank you.

2,738 died on the last day of WW1 because some pompous politicians delayed the armistice 6 hours so the war can end at 11 o'clock, including a soldier who died 60 seconds before the war ended because he charged at a German encampment so he can get some last minute glory.

Im a combat veteran OIF, and I listen to this song to remember all my friends that didn't make it home

Today we honor our heroes of past and present on this November 11th; Remebrance Day.

Damn, just damn

Al barr voice is amazing

Lest We Forget

May the world know peace one day and many all soldiers come home. Let WW1 be a lesson there must be a better way no more dying in vain.

I'm gonna be honest. You can take this or fight me on this... I cried until my balls and left arm hurt and now everyone at work thinks that I'm a red faced drooling freak boy. I need a snickers cause I'm not me right now. I'm so cold and alone without a shoulder to wipe my bloody nose on.

First World War was unlike any other and no one can compare other wars except ww2. But the trench warfare attrition was ❤️ heart breaking

2022 - again and again :(

Frank Buckles was the last American ww1 vet

Someday I will visit the Green Fields of France.

And now we're facing 2 wars, makes this even more sad

The best anti-war song ever.

❤❤

no more brother wars

I lost a brother. Reg. Army myself

I love The High Kings but their version of this song is too pretty. I love the grit of this version.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis 😔

I knew a ww1 soldier Fred Moore he fought in the Mexican expedition then in France .Discharged after a bayonet wound . Can you effing imagine that ?

Thanks less enough, Epitaph Records .:)

I am sure My cousin Liz, Andrew's sister and the rest of my family were too.

Green fields of Ukraine.... 2022 edition...

Captor: any last wishes? Me: i wanna listen to a song. They let me go btw.

Even more emotional to listen to now that we are wondering if WWIII is about to happen.

The Great War. What it was called before we had the sense to start numbering them.

As a Pádraig I can confirm your address.

🍻🌹

Eden

To all deceased anonymous soldiers, press F.

And yet here we are on the first day of ww3

At least we stopped at II!

I need help from Buford t justice do you know his name

Not a patch on the Fureys