Irish Rebel Song - Sniper's Promise

Рет қаралды 807,793

17 жыл бұрын

A Sniper's Promise is an Irish Rebel Song, sung by Wolfe Tones
If you love IRELAND, GO THERE :
www.dailymotion.com/thenelawar...
This song is about Redemption, not 'bout war nor hate !!
--
Ulead for the movie editing
Excerpts from Enemy At The Gates, by JJ Annaud, with Ed Harris and Jude Law
LYRICS
The night was icy cold I stood along
I was waiting for an army foot patrol
And when at last they came into my sight
I squeezed the trigger of my armalite
CHORUS
Oh mama, oh mama comfort me
For I know these awful things have got to be
But when the war for freedom has been won
I promise you I'll put away my gun.
A shot rang out, I heard a soldier cry
"Oh please don't leave me here alone to die"
I realized his patrol had run away
And left their wounded comrade for me to slay.
CHORUS
"There's nothing in this world I would not do
If there's mercy in your heart you'll let me live"
And in his eyes I saw a look of pain
As the mussel of my gun moved towards his brain.
CHORUS
The dawn was breaking as I reached my base
I will not forget the look on that boy's face
Fear, agony, and torment where all there
Oh but to your memory, mother, his life I spared.
CHORUS

Пікірлер: 1 400

@Remorse3 14 жыл бұрын

"There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destines as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally, and economically." --Right Honorable Bobby Sands, MP, 1954-1981

@kathyborthwick6738 2 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@kathyborthwick6738 2 жыл бұрын

Bobby Sands -An Angel sitting just above the sun waiting for us to come home! Love You son🍃🐉🍃🐉🍃🐉🍃

@purebloodirishman9389 2 жыл бұрын

Erin go bragh. Eire 32 and f the EU. God bless our people and rest in peace bobby and all of them before and more that followed for our right to be free and control our own destiny

@somnathrudra4933 2 жыл бұрын

India and Ireland both suffered from British Colonialism. We should stand unitedly against British Forces. Support Ireland from India. 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇪

@thekid8100 2 жыл бұрын

Savages but the boys with uniforms were mothers kids and heroes, they talk about people fighting for their country, these boys were fighting their village, town, county, brother sister mother father, life. I understand things are different now but none us lived through that shit or can really judge these peoples actions cos we are all soft looking back to a place or time we've never been. Good tune tho straight up.

@RaymondDay719 15 жыл бұрын

i am a retired soldier and i understand this song and it hits a dark and buried part of me. So all of you who want to take a life need to understand that once you go down that road and take a life you cant go back there is no rewind button in the real world.

@braveandfaithful 5 ай бұрын

Somebody had to say it. 👏

@philcav9891 Ай бұрын

Raymond I hope you are well 1 love

@BlueWolfStudios 12 жыл бұрын

He doesn't kill the boy, he even says it in the song. "But in your memory mama his life I spared."

@aoibhinnomahony7712 2 жыл бұрын

He may be saying that to put his mother's mind at ease

@juscoz3167 2 жыл бұрын

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 His mother is dead (to your memory mama), she would know if he was lying. He saved the soldiers life

@irishe-juicedirect6381 27 күн бұрын

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 The song is about a hero in his own country defending against a brutal crown force that wanted the whole world to bow to them. If he is only saying it to put his Mothers mind to rest, he is right. She would have been to hell and back in a war we did not ask for??

@aoibhinnomahony7712 27 күн бұрын

@@irishe-juicedirect6381 I'm Irish and had multiple ancestors who fought against the British government. I know what the song is about get a grip

@irishe-juicedirect6381 26 күн бұрын

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 WOW..... this was not a dig at you my friend! We are cut from the same cloth. I'm old enough to have dodged the bullets and bombs. I pray those days do not return.

@ShadowLion20 12 жыл бұрын

Made me cry. Don't give a damn what context you put it in. All I hear is a man who, for the sake of his country, is fighting for it and promising he'll never hurt another soul once his country is free. Don't care if it's Irish, American, or whatever. It's all about the soul of the song not the context. I'm American with a mixbreed Euro heritage and Irish is prominent,

@aoibhinnomahony7712 2 жыл бұрын

They had gone in the mire to destroy us and our nation and down after them we had to go. Commander general tom Barry

@jimtom4878 9 ай бұрын

Same here

@andrewmell9872 6 жыл бұрын

FREEDOM FIRST THEN PEACE!

@VALDIGNE 16 жыл бұрын

Love and best wishes to the wonderful people of the Republic of Ireland. Your legacy is all over the World. Forza Eire

@Bop_Bop_1970 Ай бұрын

Fuck you we have no allies you fuck

@SuicideandHappiness 14 жыл бұрын

This song is beautiful, its a rare song to be sang about the IRA and show that they too are people and have feelings. It shows the soft side of the "terrorists"(witch they are not) 5/5

@micoolkidfilms3270 Жыл бұрын

Is their any other similar ira songs?

@lucaswelsh9020 Жыл бұрын

@@micoolkidfilms3270 Joe Mcdonnel

@felimdeegan1935 Жыл бұрын

I see where you are coming from when you say they are not terrorists but I don't think it is because they are not terrorists by definition but because we are not certain of how to define the word terrorist. By the British definition, the first battalion of the parachute regiment of the British army(the fellas sent to NI) are terrorists and so would the Turkish government with their attacks on the, so called terrorists, the YBS, their attacks on civilian infrastructure and they're assistants to ISIS. The IRA should be looked at as a kind of side effect. A mental state of a group of human beings, forced to the ends. I don't support the IRA nor do I believe they were right in many of their attacks. I simply believe it was inevitable that a Nationalist extremist group was bound to be formed because of the poor response of the British government and awful state the province was in in the years coming up to the troubles.

@edglenntecson8292 11 ай бұрын

@@felimdeegan1935decade's of british neglect, the potato famine was one

@user-gd5dj2nj6c 11 ай бұрын

@@micoolkidfilms3270Shoot to Kill

@lukecarpenter2754 6 жыл бұрын

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

@freeeire564 5 жыл бұрын

Gay White Irish Protestant, Not for long, a United ireland is inevitable, and your not very British when you can’t have your own border, you can’t have your flag raised, you can’t march in some areas, you can’t be a soldier and be public about it, you can’t hold a government without power sharing the list goes on.... The free state has just as much influence as the UK does. Your children will live under the tricolor.

@MikePenceEcksDee 5 жыл бұрын

@@freeeire564 The population is more british now than irish anyways like how ostpreussen was german but now entirely russian

@freeeire564 5 жыл бұрын

Gurgle Mesh The demographics are changing, The nationalists are reproducing at a quicker rate than their unionist counterparts, Even if there is a unionists majority they are still living on stolen land and have no right to live there.

@cuntasstaire6403 5 жыл бұрын

@Straight White British Protestant get outta her ya kekistany nationalist, yeah ik who you are you piece of shit. Go back to Britain and fuck off out of my country.

@Centoriun 4 жыл бұрын

Gurgle Mesh that’s not true, in ulster it’s 54% catholic 46% protestant

@DeDerpyDerp_ 5 жыл бұрын

"Miss? Nah, warnimg shot" -Every soldier that has missed.

@kathyborthwick6738 2 жыл бұрын

The Irish never play the victim -Real Human Beings Blessed Be Ireland 🇮🇪 🐉💚🐉🤍🐉🧡 🇮🇪

@UIsterIsEpic 7 ай бұрын

Dia shábháil Éire!

@MrGreenPancake 14 жыл бұрын

This song really wakes up ones "mercy" emotion

@jovanweismiller9996 9 жыл бұрын

I'm not at all sure what clips of Jude Law as Vasily Zaytsev during the Battle Of Stalingrad have to do with Ireland, but OK, I guess.

@BiblioAtlas 7 жыл бұрын

It has the heart to suit the song. Makes me cry each time I see this vid.

@willywonty2612 5 жыл бұрын

Producers ineptitude. But has some empathetic correlation I suppose.

@joanneleigh4542 5 жыл бұрын

I know, right.

@joanneleigh4542 5 жыл бұрын

But yet, I come back, time and time again.

@Democrities 5 жыл бұрын

It’s completely unrelated, but it still kinda fits.

@celticlass32 16 жыл бұрын

I love the Wolfe Tones..Beautiful song.. FREEDOM FOREVER ... SCOTLAND AND IRELAND AND CELTIC FC FOREVER IN MY HEART AND SOUL.XXX

@annemariekerrigan2011 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 🇮🇪

@bigdom3810 2 жыл бұрын

The movie in this is enemy at the gates btw

@terencedoonan7598 9 жыл бұрын

I was in holidays with my 4 kids in the south of ireland, great decent people , lovely scenery to be seen, plenty for the kids to see, better food in the south by far, great people out for the craic, and good pints of guinness, also good music, and the weather is a lot warmer compared to the black north

@honestlord 16 жыл бұрын

well done comrade, the best army know what they are fighting for.. and they love what they know, viva the irish spirit

@southerndreamer1984 17 жыл бұрын

Erin Go Braugh! Thanks for the video, great work, a masterpiece!

@VenomousVitality 15 жыл бұрын

- Beautiful song; I remember it done by Kathleen Largey as a child. No matter what you believe in, this melody and its words are heartbreaking! Thank you for this!

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC 9 жыл бұрын

The Sniper in this Film was from GLASGOW!

@Stardustger 8 жыл бұрын

+Stargazer Nation™ 占星国家™ well kind of hard to find movies about irish snipers :P

@PrvoBijeloPolje 7 жыл бұрын

Enemy at the Gate, the movie about Stalingrad.

@sonsoftheconstitutionmilit8179 5 жыл бұрын

He was a German sniper...and the guy playing the German sniper is Ed Harris an American so where do u come with that he's from Glasgow???

@elizabethdorchester5307 3 жыл бұрын

he was confused os all

@elizabethdorchester5307 3 жыл бұрын

@be ny is that like the beef one or is that goulash

@madrigalblue 17 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. What a great pairing.

@SassyRat 15 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful song... thank the good lord for my Irish blood.

@AssistantLeaflet 2 жыл бұрын

hell of a down vote.

@Liam2621 15 жыл бұрын

i was raised in england and support irish people, theeres quite a few people like me, although not many

@polocathmhaoil9141 Жыл бұрын

I love this ballad and the footage from Enemy at the gates was brilliantly edited to fit in with the lyrics.

@espelanza 15 жыл бұрын

what a beautiful but sad song! i'm korean, far from Ireland. we were under japanese rule over 35yrs. i can feel the pain what irish people feel. i do have no idea about Ireland and IRA till i heard this song. then now, i know that Ireland will be free and english must have to pay the debt in blood.

@purebloodirishman9389 2 жыл бұрын

A thank you brother 13 years later.Freedom is a God given right be blessed my friend

@FreeUlster 17 жыл бұрын

it is strange, but gives a beautiful song a lovely touch

@KLARENDALTHEBEST 12 жыл бұрын

i am dutch irish i love the irish

@memekelly2639 4 жыл бұрын

The British have a lot to answer for,

@huntercleveland7950 2 жыл бұрын

The British Government has a lot to answer for, as all Governments do.

@muilleangearr 17 жыл бұрын

"In conclusion, we feel that althought the population has been diminished in so remarkable a manner by famine and has been decreasing, the results are, on a whole, satisfactory" Speaker, House of Commons, 1851.

@purebloodirishman9389 2 жыл бұрын

Wow who said that

@WraithF1N 12 жыл бұрын

I love this song :)

@mbgfaesyt 12 жыл бұрын

ilove dis 1 it brings tears to my eyes everytime i hear it tanks for the chance to see it again

@wulf2235 12 жыл бұрын

i want to go back to the land where my family is from!

@purebloodirishman9389 2 жыл бұрын

Come back brother

@josso295 2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever make it home?

@Eireann. Ай бұрын

@@josso295I guess not

@502deth 12 жыл бұрын

including reserves, the usa ranks 7th in size of the military at about 3 million troops. all 7 of the countries above that, together, add up to about 37 million. in 1995 the atf estimated that there about 233 million firearms in the hands of private citizens. and im sure the number has grown since then.

@aoibhinnomahony7712 2 жыл бұрын

Tyrants are made of flesh and bone

@Sungkawa 15 жыл бұрын

nice song ! My respect for the IRA

@2376MD 13 жыл бұрын

suberb subtlety - I love this song this all my heart Maurice

@SPennell 13 жыл бұрын

Nice song...excellent video production

@badealer 14 жыл бұрын

sad beautiful song IRELAND BELONGS TO IRISHMEN

@kathyborthwick6738 2 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@martinmcdonagh1669 12 жыл бұрын

one of the best IRA songs ever

@hippyjoe Жыл бұрын

Over a hundred years now and young folks are still dying for their religion in some parts of Northern Ireland. I feel so heartbroken for Ireland.

@micoolkidfilms3270 Жыл бұрын

Northern Ireland reminds me of Bosnia

@ReviewSesh 12 жыл бұрын

If you had to pick a sniper movie to cut this song to, it would have to be this. Even though there are no Irish in this movie, I think it relays the feelings of the sniper well. Thanks for the upload! Good job!

@atlas184 8 жыл бұрын

video is taken from Enemy at the Gates, thats set in the USSR.

@blakemurp8582 9 жыл бұрын

Is that movie about vasily zaitzev and his sniper battle against colonel hoffseter

@Atalaclys 9 жыл бұрын

Yeap..

@irishdc9523 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, Enemy at the Gates.

@PanzerAngriff 9 жыл бұрын

Yes; a sniper-duel that is entirely fabricated.

@rebcanirish 11 жыл бұрын

You are a better man than I. I salute you. I've met a lot of old vets myself. It's newer casualties that had me spouting off. Can't say much more.

@Sicarius089 13 жыл бұрын

2:32 he just got a no scope.... vut seriously i haven't been able to find this video for ages! now i'm relieved it's still on here. Great video

@jamesgrewar461 3 ай бұрын

Tiocfaidh àr là 🇮🇪 Thig ar la 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fe ddaw ein dydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@danny100ization 9 жыл бұрын

wars over,,,,

@josephcherry4863 9 жыл бұрын

Fuck you.

@danny100ization 9 жыл бұрын

@josephmcgonagle9002 9 жыл бұрын

Xjism, you are a very silly person. Very very silly. Ask any person in Northern Ireland with grandparents from Ireland what they want. They will want the Brits to leave and take their flag with them. Go on. Ask

@qaddad9757 9 жыл бұрын

xjxism car So, it was alright when England came over and forced us to live like they did and if we disobeyed it would be to the gallows? Even worse coming up to the War of Independence and during the war, where they shot people who they THOUGHT were part of the I.R.A, with no evidence more than they were a Paddy. And then again during the Troubles, being forced into prison without trial under assumption AGAIN. You tell me what's wrong with that, and how the Irish are wrong for responding with the same oppression and hate they showed us for over 800 years.

@malcolmwilkinson6845 9 жыл бұрын

noobsmasher123 clown.

@agnesquinn760 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful song ❤

@shanemaurer971 11 жыл бұрын

i love this song!

@mrbonedigger 15 жыл бұрын

super song. brings a tear to my eye every time i hear it. but it is an apologetic song , none the less

@Mamboro17 15 жыл бұрын

great song !

@kountershock777JS 12 жыл бұрын

This was an amazing movie

@roor06 15 жыл бұрын

Luv it ... Peace in the valley .. Whatever It takes ...

@razraz4372 3 жыл бұрын

Best i.r.a snipper came from america he was a gentleman who fought for the cause do in prison never forgotten

@Renegade_Melungeon 12 жыл бұрын

Great song lad!

@stained18 15 жыл бұрын

what a good song

@zaaritha 15 жыл бұрын

Very good!

@carlomariabezzi8460 2 жыл бұрын

La canzone è strepitosa, ma il film di più: è lo splendido "Il Nemico Alle Porte" di J. J. Annaud, con Jude Law e Ed Harris, sull'assedio di Stalingrado.

@skullkrusher381 12 жыл бұрын

what a song

@rebcanirish 13 жыл бұрын

@MrMickroach Down to the wire, heart felt and true. Well said.

@biddy935 12 жыл бұрын

a true song

@Aethyrs 13 жыл бұрын

i like the video, with this song,

@corkfield1 15 жыл бұрын

well said

@patrickshoes 12 жыл бұрын

God willing we will!

@ceevo10 12 жыл бұрын

nice song

@m96c40 15 жыл бұрын

Exactly. As the gentleman who posted the song pointed out : It's about redemption. It was written by someone who doesn't advocate war, but only did what he had to do.

@Gommerell 12 жыл бұрын

That was a good film "Enemy at the Gates " , great opening scene wit the wolf , It was the same French director who did , "the Bear "

@skittification 12 жыл бұрын

@MrMickroach I like the analogy, nice one.

@fuckthequeenupthera1 12 жыл бұрын

the south armagh sniper (sas) haha was a serious buzz. used to get them from up to a mile away!

@freakette84 15 жыл бұрын

all jack does is avoid questions. hes not that bright! hes happy to rant and rave and huff and puff but ask him to answer a stright forward question and youll be waiting a good long time!

@airsoftingbuffalo 12 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@patrickshoes 12 жыл бұрын

Solidarity....from Doncaster

@Er0y 15 жыл бұрын

Good point

@psullivan0525 15 жыл бұрын

I love this song and the movie that goes with it i want to see it know

@computerrage 12 жыл бұрын

A welcome return to "bollocks on a bulldog" and to "plastic filth". Well done Mick for spelling both correctly! (just missing a space between 'on' and 'a')!

@LULUNIAMH 15 жыл бұрын

mabey but this past is very hard to forget !!!!!

@dientime1 5 жыл бұрын

that was fucking deep

@SunlitTrollFilms 12 жыл бұрын

cried.

@erickeckberg 12 жыл бұрын

If you've never had to fire on another man in war, you just might not know what you're talkin about. Footage is from Enemy at the Gates (WWII Stalingrad), lyrics concern an IRA sniper, songs about the same thing, once they're dead and you're home, most everything else fades with time, 'cept the fact that you're alive and they're not. The older you get, the more you think about it, trust me.

@billionear 15 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@airsoftingbuffalo 12 жыл бұрын

A primary difference between airsoft firearms and BB guns is that airsoft firearms use 6mm or 8mm plastic and have muzzle velocities of less than 700 FPS which is generally considered safe in a controlled environment, while BB guns utilize metal ammunition and shoot at higher velocities (over 1000 FPS) making them unsuitable for gaming or training purposes.

@Urdalibertine 13 жыл бұрын

Some stories should never leave the field.

@TheOriginalMoc 12 жыл бұрын

my dads fav song :)

@eileenomeara5781 4 жыл бұрын

My late brother use to sing miss him so much💔

@josparkes1 14 жыл бұрын

Sad and melancholy little song !

@finty01 12 жыл бұрын

yes

@ArticleTen 13 жыл бұрын

Freedom only comes though Christ. For those of us who fought and killed, freedom can only come through Christ all other attempts fall far short.

@daviddanagher4392 Жыл бұрын

Heavy stuff mush

@soleary0339 15 жыл бұрын

To the tyrant the sniper rings of justice, to the just man a sniper brings vigilance. a sniper can bring great victory or awful defeat.

@IrishHitman79 15 жыл бұрын

lol i can Remember a IRA sniper who was going around with a barret light 50. good old one shot Paddy he sure didnt miss.

@TheDirtdealer 12 жыл бұрын

4TH Gen in country...My Irsh brother.s...Pray For US!

@rayomalone 15 жыл бұрын

ders goog footage in micheal collins or the wind that shakes the barely

@SponzyParadox 11 жыл бұрын

I visit Vets who don't have family or have family that can't or won't come. I met two, one was from Vietnam, the other is from Korea, I am not sure they would know that. However I really don't ask them much about what they did, just listen to what they want to tell me, maybe play some cards. It is the least I can do. And you really need to chill, I only said the movie fits the song guys legit that was it.