'Oh it's a Lovely War!' - British WW1 Song

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4 ай бұрын

'Oh it's a Lovely War!' is a British song from the end of the Great War. It satirically recounts life as a soldier in the British armed forces in Europe, telling of all the rations and payment earnt in their service. Each verse says another lie about the life in the western front's trenches, followed at the end of each paragraph with another soldier's disbelief, 'What?' 'Liar' 'Wretch!'
During World War I, British soldiers on the Western Front endured harsh conditions. Trench warfare dominated the landscape, with soldiers spending prolonged periods in muddy, rat-infested trenches. These trenches were often flooded, being unsanitary and uncomfortable. Trenches experienced extreme weather conditions, from freezing to stifling heat. Despite these hardships, British forces along with the Entente defeated the Germans and Turks.

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@freedompodcast4518 3 ай бұрын

That is just a British sense of humor in a nutshell.

@AvaT42 4 ай бұрын

A very satirical song. Lol. I can just imagine all the poor sods marching along in all the mud and muck singing this!

@user-hl7nt1og7k Ай бұрын

Probably worth alternative lyrics, talking more of shagging and drink than breakfast.

@AtlasGamingTX 4 ай бұрын

2:41 “LIAR!”

@alefergo1527 3 ай бұрын

1:16 "What?"

@castielsosa8512 17 күн бұрын

@gaminguniverse2477 Ай бұрын

Our greatest defence isn’t weapons or tactics it’s the fact that no matter what you do to us we will still invent a song that makes everything trivial and easy to mock, truly no one can out do the brits in songs that even the enemy can’t hate

@tateranus4365 Ай бұрын

other than the Irish!

@aaronhall9077 2 ай бұрын

I'll always appreciate our sense of humour during difficult times. Without it, we wouldn't have gotten through half of the shit thrown at us over the centuries. British resilience is what helped us to become the greatest nation on Earth. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 E󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿dit: I tried to get a Northern Ireland Flag emoji, but it just won't show up properly. Apparently, it's because 'it's not implemented by any major vendors.' (Due to their technically not being an 'official' flag for it).

@TheofficialSirenheadr 4 ай бұрын

Love British humor

@Falkriim 3 ай бұрын

Cool Kaiserreich PFP, love that mod.

@TheofficialSirenheadr 3 ай бұрын

@@Falkriim yup

@Dackdagoori 4 ай бұрын

Oh it’s a Lovely War!

@Falkriim 3 ай бұрын

Hangin on the old barbed wire is also one of my favs

@Hpman692 13 күн бұрын

Hey. I got a question. Why did the Italian empire Delacre war on asoro- hugery?

@Historybrickfilms Ай бұрын

Amazing 🤩

@Bagelvr183 Ай бұрын

1914: it’s a lovely war😃 1918:😐

@muriloridolfi1898 2 ай бұрын

It's 1 A.M. in my country. I should be searching for imperialism for a school Project. Even though i really love history,im not that interested in search for something i aleardy have some knowledge about,but without knowing how to explain. So, im just hearing british war songs,my favorite type of song for relax sometimes.

@user-hl7nt1og7k Ай бұрын

Where are you from?

@muriloridolfi1898 Ай бұрын

@@user-hl7nt1og7k bruhzil

@Kent_toaster_4 4 ай бұрын

Apple sauce hmmm yummy.

@BlueOceanDaGamer 2 ай бұрын

British Soviet/Russian Japanese American and German warsongs SLAP

@avus-kw2f213 4 ай бұрын

What was the point of the UK getting involved in the land war

@Jason_V_the_great 4 ай бұрын

To prevent the collapse of France

@avus-kw2f213 4 ай бұрын

@@Jason_V_the_great that explains the BEF but not conscription

@whatforaaron2494 4 ай бұрын

@@Jason_V_the_greatThe Germans invading Belgium to get to France.

@jennijenjenjen 4 ай бұрын

We honoured our treaty with Belgium

@avus-kw2f213 4 ай бұрын

@@jennijenjenjen I could argue about the treaty and what exactly it meant But I won’t because the Royal Navy was the best Navy & the UK could’ve Just used the Navy not land

@eliteplier 4 ай бұрын

This is beyond depressing. Also why I am not allowed to praise The geat leader Stalin?

@Imperial_Britannia 4 ай бұрын

It’s obviously depressing, it’s about life as a soldier in one of the most cruel wars ever fought on European soil. And Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mosley, and others, any praising of them is quite nasty, there a massive difference between the British empire, and the Soviet empire. Figures like Stalin are notorious for famines and corruption, along with a cult of personality, and murders of government officials, and the desolation of Eastern Europe.

@eliteplier 4 ай бұрын

The Bri'ish Empire was pretty awfull to. Famines in Ireland and India ,Apartheid in south Africa, killing natives in America, creating the most godly AWFULL borders in the world, bringing them "Civilazation". There is no "morally correct" empires

@AtlasGamingTX 3 ай бұрын

@@Imperial_Britanniawait but the Soviet Union is a union of social communist republics, it’s not an empire

@Imperial_Britannia 3 ай бұрын

@@AtlasGamingTX The definition of ‘Empire’ by the Oxford dictionary follows: ‘an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. 2. a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group.’ The Soviet Union more than qualifies being an empire in all but name, russian communists holding absolute authority over its lands, being one the largest nations in Eurasia, with many different cultures who didn’t want to be under the Soviets rule, not to mention that the Soviets brutally suppressed any nation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who tried to resist soviet domination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_empire gal-dem.com/why-romanticising-the-soviet-union-obscures-its-colonial-past/ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/24/how-western-scholars-overlooked-russian-imperialism

@lucaogno9047 Ай бұрын

@@Imperial_Britannia Bro just showed him the facts, and with sources!