Over the Hills and Far Away - British Army Song

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2 жыл бұрын

"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional British song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. One version was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a very different one appeared in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer. A version also appears in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera of 1728.
The words have changed over the years, as can be seen in the versions below. The only consistent element in early versions is the title line and the tune. D'Urfey's and Gay's versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army. The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British Sharpe television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version. This version was also recorded by John Tams who played Dan Hagman in the series.

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@GodSaveTheKing444
@GodSaveTheKing444 2 жыл бұрын
We're in dire need of new redcoat 🇬🇧 films, because we're running out of scenes to edit with. Great video btw 👍🏻
@patrioticarchive
@patrioticarchive 2 жыл бұрын
We definitely need more redcoat and Royal Navy films and thanks mate.
@bieituns
@bieituns 2 жыл бұрын
Im in the process of writing a novel. It will eventually be 3 books,. It is already a work of art. It will be complete in about 5 years.
@ivankomadanvonrakovac8415
@ivankomadanvonrakovac8415 2 жыл бұрын
@@bieituns What's topic?
@bieituns
@bieituns 2 жыл бұрын
@@ivankomadanvonrakovac8415 It is similar to Sharpe and Hornblower and master and commander in that it takes you on a journey of a fictional character based on real life characters and real life events while exploring the historical importance of even earlier events that created the circumstances to shape the future, it explains the formation of Britain and how the declaration of obroath was the inspiration to the declaration of independence and the significance of magna carta. The story unfolds in England when a man and woman leave England for the new world to start a new life and a family after the seven years war. Here they meet certain significant people such as George Washington who explains the cause of the French and Indian war, as the story progresses we see the revolutionary war break out. This is the basis of the first book, it is very profound and educational, I have learnt a great deal in the process and even shed a few tears with the deaths of certain characters. The second book opens with the explanation of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, I have bought over 90 books on the era and used many real life quotes and events to get it all as accurate and as real as possible. The main protagonist in the story has learnt to fight during the revolutionary war under the Prussian Von Steuben. He returns to England and is press ganged into the royal navy and fights at the battle of Copenhagen under captain Bligh. He eventually fights at the battle of Trafalgar under Horatio Nelson. I have some very interesting twists on the myth of his death. For example, when Nelson died legend has it that his final words were kiss me Hardy. But there is also a myth which I believe is probably true that he actually said kismet Hardy which is Turkish for fate or destiny Hardy. Or god's will. I actually spoke to a Turkish man in marmaris who explained to me that Nelson was in marmaris preparing for the battle of the Nile. The final book leads on to the peninsula war and Waterloo with Wellington and after being wounded seriously in battle he becomes destitute and homeless and without wanting to spoil it it ends at peterloo in Manchester.
@ivankomadanvonrakovac8415
@ivankomadanvonrakovac8415 2 жыл бұрын
@@bieituns Wonderful. Literally my favourite genre of novels. I hope you'll successfully publish it.
@Hereward47
@Hereward47 2 жыл бұрын
I distinctly remember being in the back of a wagon when I was in basic training driving through a town in Devon all singing this.
@thecrimsonbubbles
@thecrimsonbubbles 2 жыл бұрын
now that's soldiering.
@Viper97Gaming
@Viper97Gaming 2 жыл бұрын
No one does it like us British.
@thebrazilianhistorian6530
@thebrazilianhistorian6530 2 жыл бұрын
3 rounds a minute, any weather.
@alexaldous9890
@alexaldous9890 11 ай бұрын
Sharpe nod, absolutely loving it
@thebrazilianhistorian6530
@thebrazilianhistorian6530 2 жыл бұрын
This is the best version of this song I've ever heard.
@Viper97Gaming
@Viper97Gaming 2 жыл бұрын
Rule Britannia! God Bless our United Kingdom.
@rollandmarksteacheshistory1408
@rollandmarksteacheshistory1408 Жыл бұрын
I stands for democracy but the British is one country I respect that has a beautiful country and one of the perfect armies I've ever seen
@Viper97Gaming
@Viper97Gaming 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the complement of our Island home.🇬🇧 On the topic of democracy. We are a democracy with a Constitutional Monarchy.🇬🇧
@shallow768
@shallow768 Ай бұрын
@@Viper97Gamingnot when this song was written
@NihilsineDeo1866.
@NihilsineDeo1866. 2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about this version of the song, good mate :) For King and Country 🇬🇧
@rose72br
@rose72br 2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know this one. It's very beautiful! Greetings from Brasil!
@Historicage1134
@Historicage1134 Жыл бұрын
Because of these songs every Britons can reflect on to their glorious past and present
@lieutenantcommanderdata892
@lieutenantcommanderdata892 Жыл бұрын
For God, King and country!
@rafaelcordero6632
@rafaelcordero6632 Жыл бұрын
This britsh song never gets forgotten
@mattwordsworth9825
@mattwordsworth9825 Жыл бұрын
The British Empire's combat uniform is the best looking out of all the WWII uniforms, complete with their iconic Brodie Helmet
@colinmcdonald8521
@colinmcdonald8521 9 ай бұрын
The Paras' uniform in the closing years of the war, with the Dennison smock, and 44 webbing and Airborne helmet was the best issued to the British to that date, and was the model for everything that followed.
@gunslingerluckytankijunky
@gunslingerluckytankijunky Жыл бұрын
Sharpe brought me here, god I gotta find more shows about the older wars.
@DerMarschliedKamerad
@DerMarschliedKamerad 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely epic, good job!
@Historicage1134
@Historicage1134 Жыл бұрын
When England does not have any independence day because of it's brave soldiers who always protect it from enemy and also make it possible to rule the world.
@nightking3877
@nightking3877 Жыл бұрын
Now, that‘s soldiering
@epicminecraft4543
@epicminecraft4543 2 жыл бұрын
England was always a good ally of belgium so long live UK
@rogerthomas368
@rogerthomas368 Жыл бұрын
As have the Belgium been of the British. It seems to have been forgotten over time that it was Belgian battalion with a Luxembourg Platoon that did its best to hold the right flank for the British Gloucestershire Regiment during the Battle of the Imjin River, which was a key battle during the Korean War. The battle itself reads more like a story from Hollywood than real life and the fighting reads as if it taking place in the napoleonic era.
@deandavies9576
@deandavies9576 Жыл бұрын
thank you sir
@wereham
@wereham Жыл бұрын
When you're right you're right
@nikkonichols
@nikkonichols Жыл бұрын
So many battles in Flanders fields 💪🏼💪🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧
@tankythemagnorite9855
@tankythemagnorite9855 Жыл бұрын
Thank you old chap, same to Belgium.
@strayadoesgames
@strayadoesgames Жыл бұрын
pro tip: never put tea boxes in the ocean
@Gustavogukpa
@Gustavogukpa 2 жыл бұрын
This video changed mah life
@rudsonchannel2935
@rudsonchannel2935 2 жыл бұрын
Great song
@Rory_Herbert
@Rory_Herbert 2 жыл бұрын
Love those Royal Scots Greys.
@abbiepratt
@abbiepratt Жыл бұрын
sharps army best war program on the tv.
@deandavies9576
@deandavies9576 Жыл бұрын
If i should fall to rise no more As many comrades did before Then ask the fifes and drums to play Over the hills and far away! Rule Britannia!
@Atrux1
@Atrux1 28 күн бұрын
That's inspiring. Thank you. Let us rise again like our fathers or even better
@jamesgreaves8970
@jamesgreaves8970 10 ай бұрын
oh ma god i am so happy about this song, loud, british, i just love it!
@lawrencebico1861
@lawrencebico1861 2 жыл бұрын
God Save King George 🇬🇧
@Revoe_Lad
@Revoe_Lad Ай бұрын
I love the fact that the first line of the song is recruiting mercenaries to fight for us. It’s hilarious 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@Psychonaut316
@Psychonaut316 13 күн бұрын
Not mercenaries. It was an enlistment bonus for recruits.
@RiodesGeming
@RiodesGeming 2 жыл бұрын
Nice video Friend :D
@gameram6382
@gameram6382 Жыл бұрын
King charles commands
@KopperNeoman
@KopperNeoman 10 ай бұрын
And I disobey that traitorous WEF puppet.
@enclaveenthusiasts9595
@enclaveenthusiasts9595 7 ай бұрын
We making it out of Zulu with this one 🗣️🔥
@JorgeAugustoCorreaReis
@JorgeAugustoCorreaReis 2 жыл бұрын
Nice Job ,Good Song
@TheSgillHistory
@TheSgillHistory 2 жыл бұрын
Never heard that march before
@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890
@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890 Жыл бұрын
God save the Queen!
@cymrocymraeg5352
@cymrocymraeg5352 Жыл бұрын
Excellent foreshadowing
@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890
@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890 Жыл бұрын
@@cymrocymraeg5352 As a Duke you have a gut feeling about such things.
@KittyStarlight
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
God save the King.
@KittyStarlight
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
Just been told on another thread "King Charles" in reply to my post (from two months ago) regarding there not being a King of England then. Look at when the post was, anyone. But it is very fascinating historically than now we have a King Charles again. (Not the one with the spaniels. Not the one who had his head cut off. And not Bonnie Prince Charlie either. A different one. But still Charles. Good old historical name. Although not very lucky in the past. But still historical.)
@KittyStarlight
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
@@cymrocymraeg5352 Welsh. Does your name mean Welshman?
@charlestaylor8566
@charlestaylor8566 2 жыл бұрын
FORWARD the Scots Greys !
@Khvkhvy_ihgigfuc112
@Khvkhvy_ihgigfuc112 2 жыл бұрын
Fire song🔥
@marclourencecusi9638
@marclourencecusi9638 2 жыл бұрын
good music
@awjen20
@awjen20 2 ай бұрын
WERE GETTING OUT OF ROKES DRIFT IN THIS SONG!
@historiamilitaris5161
@historiamilitaris5161 4 ай бұрын
God save the King! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@legomaker9613
@legomaker9613 Жыл бұрын
Sharpe lead me here.
@ILovePoop69
@ILovePoop69 2 жыл бұрын
I came here from roblox zulu war
@kmicic8315
@kmicic8315 2 жыл бұрын
0:0-04 Who is this? Duke of Marlborough? Could I get a link to this image? This is my the most liked version Over the hils and far away ;). Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱🇬🇧 Great job!
@patrioticarchive
@patrioticarchive 2 жыл бұрын
It's George II at the battle of Dettingten images.app.goo.gl/QN8LHMJvLJJG3C3G9
@georgludwigernstmaximilian9732
@georgludwigernstmaximilian9732 Жыл бұрын
The first image: King George I, and the next: King George II at the Battle of Dettingen
@gukabolo
@gukabolo 3 ай бұрын
I remember playing Zulu war based game in Roblox with this song
@micahritchie9179
@micahritchie9179 2 жыл бұрын
I need to step up my game to get subs when your about very good video tho 🇬🇧👍🏻
@kyle.horton
@kyle.horton 2 жыл бұрын
I dig it; but is the brass section taken from Silverado? It works really well either way.
@pro_editFOOTBALL1597
@pro_editFOOTBALL1597 Жыл бұрын
Geez that's a lot of cowboy aka the guy's horse driving the sword
@vagodinfir1636
@vagodinfir1636 Жыл бұрын
That's cavalry
@johnharefa7726
@johnharefa7726 Жыл бұрын
Wow great british . I like
@kvetapetrusova2596
@kvetapetrusova2596 Жыл бұрын
👌👌
@juanquirozbarrio2605
@juanquirozbarrio2605 Жыл бұрын
SO Soy mexicano theAmor REINO unido 🖤🖤🖤🖤🍷🌹🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 vivir en Inglaterra
@sapofeministopepe1159
@sapofeministopepe1159 2 жыл бұрын
Mamamia Good vídeo
@davidwilliams-kc7hb
@davidwilliams-kc7hb Жыл бұрын
Daniel Hagman sang it better in TV Series Sharpe
@erikgothberg8078
@erikgothberg8078 3 ай бұрын
I agree all of his songs in Sharpe were really good, a Shame that they are not on Spotify
@xaverpindl9729
@xaverpindl9729 26 күн бұрын
Sharpe never fought in the Patriot
@coreytrevor9423
@coreytrevor9423 Жыл бұрын
Shame we didn’t take America as a colony. LONG LIVE THE KING!
@wereham
@wereham Жыл бұрын
I don't think we hardly tried. Not many casualties
@mattwordsworth9825
@mattwordsworth9825 Жыл бұрын
Not worth the trouble, we had more important matters to deal with. However if Wellington was sent to America with his battle hardened Peninsula army the Americans would have crumbled
@danielparradicillo
@danielparradicillo Жыл бұрын
Not only America but even all Latin American countries will apply for Commonwealth membership in the future. Will you help us to welcome them all? All South American nations got emancipated, independent and free with the support of the Royal British Legions under the HM King George III and the Duke of Wellington's command.
@HomeSkillit
@HomeSkillit Жыл бұрын
​@@mattwordsworth9825okay haha
@KopperNeoman
@KopperNeoman 10 ай бұрын
@wereham "The British" in that war were largely Americans trying to overthrow their seditionist government. The reasons for sedition notwithstanding, modern day Americans are disgusting for largely forgetting that.
@jamesgrcevich8307
@jamesgrcevich8307 10 ай бұрын
GOD Save KING Charles
@colinmcdonald8521
@colinmcdonald8521 Жыл бұрын
Poor sods - recruited for the most part by unemployment or the magistrates as an alternative to something worse, for a bob a day - minus dishonest deductions - a usually secondhand uniform but typically new boots and a share of a bunk in decrepit barracks - only benefits, some very basic medical care, regular if dodgy rations, and a free funeral. The Victorian army was only a mite better - one bunk, razor and towel per man, and the barracks tended to be newer, and not so many dishonest deductions.
@raylumley5019
@raylumley5019 10 ай бұрын
I agree> However, civilian life in Britain was just as horrific..Even after the 1st world war, the land "fit for heroes"was a hell hole for the working class. In fact ,I have read a german soldier at Dunkirk , who could'nt believe how small and puny the British soldiers were. Thanks to the class system.
@lalthamuon6720
@lalthamuon6720 16 күн бұрын
Daniel hagman sang it better
@davidbraun6209
@davidbraun6209 Жыл бұрын
You notice they don't use footage from _The Patriot_ showing the capitulation at Yorktown? Also no video showing the Brits getting defeated at New Orleans?
@The_Christian_Cavalier
@The_Christian_Cavalier Жыл бұрын
Because Britain one far more than it lost, that's why. Traitor.
@vagodinfir1636
@vagodinfir1636 Жыл бұрын
Why would they show it in here? This is a video about a British army song
@mattwordsworth9825
@mattwordsworth9825 Жыл бұрын
Probably for the same reason why you Yanks wouldn't show your failed invasion of Canada or the White House burning down on your American army songs vids
@ReformedSauron
@ReformedSauron Жыл бұрын
Not eerything is from an American lense- sincerely, an American. Perhaps that's why the world thinks us ignorant. Edit: the world could say the same thing about our defeats being left out of most of our things. Say you want you want about the other countries of the world- they are well aware of the world does not revolve around them alone and here in the states we don't realize that rule applies to us as well.
@gameram6382
@gameram6382 Жыл бұрын
Fix bayonets. 💪
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589 Жыл бұрын
THE QUEEN JUST DIED AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
@ReformedSauron
@ReformedSauron Жыл бұрын
Monarchs do. They aren't immortal. Long live the king.
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589 Жыл бұрын
I disagree, they came from blue blooded balls, and we worship them, so they might as well be immortal, the paranoia continues.
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589
@rekyklwshenadyotria1589 Жыл бұрын
@@willtheww2collector742 as we should be towards ppl that have done so many malicious things against humanity
@grobertokralos150
@grobertokralos150 Жыл бұрын
good, respect
@gazzabnaki
@gazzabnaki Жыл бұрын
God save the King and God save New Zealand and the Commonwealth!! 🥝defeat to the barbarian Russians
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