I wasn’t there never have fought … but I see and hear helicopter blades and machine guns over the Viet Nam jungle with black smoke and fire everywhere.
iamthemetalgod You can thank Geezer for that, he wrote most of their early lyrics. Ozzy improvised a lot when they were writing new music too but played less of a role. It's funny, the whole reason they went the dark "demonic" route is because they wanted a gimmick. Wonder how they might have done if they took a different route. Ozzy loved The Beatles after all
Shawn Diaz Ozzy must have something to do with the gimmick aswell, he was into coven (a satanic themed band) and even got influence from the bass player who was called Oz osborne
I'm guessing it has something to do with them being opposed to all of the hippie music that was popular at the time, since they couldn't relate to it, living in an industrial void.
I was 12 when I was turned on to Sabbath this was my first taste of Metal..I'm 45 now I still have my long hair and still play Sabbath..So enjoy all you new young Metal Heads..
Lloyd T. Stout Same here. My first taste was No More Tears in 1991 and Thought Sabbath was too 'Drummy' but after hearing my life in Black Sabbath/Ozzy music I am happy for that old corner gas station. I was 13 then and I'll never get sick of it.
Stone Sour did a live interpretation at a show of theirs, as did Rob Zombie. Good in their own right, but nothing short of a newer quality and possibly heavier remake from Black Sabbath would out do this masterpiece
What amazes me the most is the high social content present in the songs of this band. I was 15 yrs old when I first listened to them. Today I am 54 and still like it!
Same age my first exposure to Black Sabbath was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath that my brother bought along with Vol 4 from a thrift shop, I bought Deep Purple Machine head and Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti.
This song is one of Black Sabbath’s heavy metal classics. It even inspired sci-fi/fantasy author Nathan Godwin to write a horror story by the same title (which he dedicated to Black Sabbath). Awesome.
We have evolved. (I hope). And now we all see it as neutral music. Even if the themes are religion or anti-religion, or satanism, it's just music about make believe things, about a work of fiction.
oh Children of the grave, do we think about you in times like these. so many of you gave up your lives during that war, fought the whole world for the greater good, and people spit in your faces. may your legacy live on and never be forgotten.
for my brother Frank, who has just departed this world.....as kids, all we ever heard was black sabboth on his little record player, with mum and dad shouting....turn that down.../rip my b rother
I grew up listening to this kind of music among other songs older than myself, and it saddens me to think of how relevant this still is in my era. We should be past the hatred and war by now, but humanity refuses to evolve.
I heard this song in 1976 I was 15, the kid from down the street had sold our souls album brought it over to my house I was immediately hooked. My parents didn’t understand this music especially when I started to buy Kiss albums lol! I absolutely still listen to all of this music!
Aussie is a legend, his music allways helps me escape the reality of what our world is coming to. I hope that one day we will all be able to shake hands and love one another. We have to change not as a country but as a species. We need to ditch the hatred greed and temptation that this world waves in our faces day by day. Maybe I may be one of the few people that think this way but I know others are out there that wish everything that us as humans have done to eachother in the past and learn to let go and start a new. But no matter what, I love everyone and everything no matter what because I know that if I can spread enough positivity that it may rub off on others around me. You have the power to change the world each and every one of you never forget that.
5:18 I played this on my dad's quadrophonic stereo when he was at work. The drum track would go around the room in a circle through the 4 speakers in each corner. Only song I can think of that did that. It was so fucking awesome fir a young teen.
Man I really started listening to Sabbath about 2 months ago, and man have I loved every song. But this one, so heavy, yet so relevant, and true for the last 50 years. Now we fear the bomb more than ever, and most likely it will happen.
I'm a Millennial, 22 years old at the time of this comment, and I love music like this and just older music in general. Too much of popular music starting some time after 2010 was made with an algorithm run by a computer. I'm not talking about dubstep or electronic music either, I'm talking about mainstream pop-music and stars like Katy Perry, Niki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, and even Taylor Swift despite the fact that she's generally considered at least somewhat more wholesome than certain other "artists". Today's music is systematically made to conform to highly repetitive and simple patterns which lack the rich complexity of older music. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist by saying it's a form of mind control, but these kinds of patterns do have a mind-numbing effect that makes people unable to appreciate more sophisticated songs. Also on a side note, while I am not against sexual freedom in our society and I honestly probably have a few more semi-hard-core kinks than the average person, I have a passionate distaste for overtly sexual displays and explicit lyrics in mainstream pop music. I mean really, young kids listen to this stuff and it's terrible for their minds and bodies. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be songs about sex, some of the greatest classic rock songs and other such older pieces of music have clear sexual innuendos, but at least they (mostly) used more subtle and poetic language to express those ideas. (AC/DC can be kind of crude sometimes but I still love them.) What I am saying is that today's music should adopt the same methods of its processors for the overall artistic enrichment of society, and that we need to do a better job of keeping music with more mature themes away from the ears of those who are under the age of at least 13 in order to protect the innocence of childhood that seems to be under attack more than ever these days.
no zep and blackmore where right there with these dudes in how they progressed '' and they will be right there in hell with these dudes'' believe that'' , its why blackmore said in a lot of his interviews he is afraid of dying''
New Years 3 in the afternoon a dozen or so bongrips and as many shots of JD and it's 1982 and I was just learning about this band and 40 years on it's still just as raw as it ever was
I remember years ago when I was a kid my parents forbid me to listen to Black Sabbath because when they were younger it was considered to be evil music. Black Sabbath isn't evil. They're an amazing band with the best music I've ever heard in my life. They still rock even by today's standards! Live on forever Black Sabbath!!!
That's what people don't get , listen to Ozzy's songs , read between the lines , their lessons , he's my favorite singer ever , truth in rock words Rock on Ozzy
In 1971 I was in my junior year in college and just starting to discover the music of Black Sabboth, which I continued to enjoy more and more and Ozzy as he went out on his own.
For all of those who want to argue between Pantera and Exhorder as who started groove metal...listen to this! Sabbath influenced them both and therefore they are the ones who influenced both. If not for Sabbath neither would have existed! And I'm a diehard Pantera fan but this is the foundation for all metal!
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The drums on this song...melts my brain with awesomeness. Like Ravens wings flapping.
Mint imagery
I wasn’t there never have fought … but I see and hear helicopter blades and machine guns over the Viet Nam jungle with black smoke and fire everywhere.
Bill Ward all the way man !! What an amazing drummer he is.
Or like the march of rebellion!
Absolutely agreed
I love how Sabbath had songs with names like "Children of the grave" and really dark sound, and yet very hippie like lyrics about love.
There is a crappy movie from Sci-Fi that is literally CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE.....And here I am listening to it
iamthemetalgod You can thank Geezer for that, he wrote most of their early lyrics. Ozzy improvised a lot when they were writing new music too but played less of a role.
It's funny, the whole reason they went the dark "demonic" route is because they wanted a gimmick. Wonder how they might have done if they took a different route. Ozzy loved The Beatles after all
Shawn Diaz Ozzy must have something to do with the gimmick aswell, he was into coven (a satanic themed band) and even got influence from the bass player who was called Oz osborne
iamthemetalgod oh yeah love ozzys darkness side
I'm guessing it has something to do with them being opposed to all of the hippie music that was popular at the time, since they couldn't relate to it, living in an industrial void.
I'm not allowed to pick which songs to play at the nursing home anymore
😂
Ironic, because most Black Sabbath fans are in the nursing home age anyway.
Black Sabbath on repeat, and thats the way they like it, eh?
@@aitokoojii1462 Most "Original" not most
Rite 😆🤣😂😹
I was 12 when I was turned on to Sabbath this was my first taste of Metal..I'm 45 now I still have my long hair and still play Sabbath..So enjoy all you new young Metal Heads..
Lloyd T. Stout i've been listening to black sabbath since i was born in 13 now
Anna Young what your post has me lost..It says senc you was born in 13 I don't get it
Hey Lloyd you sound guy with whom i like to smoke a joint and listen some Sabbath and motörhead...and Budgie \m/
grow up
Lloyd T. Stout Same here. My first taste was No More Tears in 1991 and Thought Sabbath was too 'Drummy' but after hearing my life in Black Sabbath/Ozzy music I am happy for that old corner gas station. I was 13 then and I'll never get sick of it.
This band was way ahead of its time. Incredible songs, this one being one of their very best.
No, they were in right time, today nobody will now about them because everybody listen to idiot music without any artistic value.
You could literally play it today, and the message'd still be pretty relevant.
This song came out in 1971 and it’s still heavy by todays standards
I know...It's unreal!
Fucking amen!!!
Heavy today? Nah maby for Justin Bieber fans...
What u mean still heavy? Name an actual or recent band that matches this level of savageness.
For real would've been sick to hear this back then
BIll Ward smashes the drums on this, amazing, hope all you Sabbath fans can appreciate what he did for Black Sabbath!
Hope one day soon he gets his mind fully together
He could've replaced john Bonham back in the early 80s imo.
People didn't shun metal because it was evil, it was because it exposed the truth.
What exactly was the truth?
Essentially how evil the world/humanity actually is.
@@evilpie8130the truth was, and still is, that humans are evil
You couldn’t have put it any better !!
@@evilpie8130 The lyrics of this song is an example of the truth.
Imagine hearing this in 1971 for the first time. It's still bone-crushingly heavy to this day.
I'm amazed no major bands have ever covered it tbh! It is brutally heavy for the age of it!
Stone Sour did a live interpretation at a show of theirs, as did Rob Zombie. Good in their own right, but nothing short of a newer quality and possibly heavier remake from Black Sabbath would out do this masterpiece
Wish I had heard it that year. Would have helped.
Great lyrics unbelievable how amazing these guys were.
I never knew this song had such a positive message behind it.
Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today.
Geezer's bass playing is so great in this song. Great song by the whole band.
What amazes me the most is the high social content present in the songs of this band. I was 15 yrs old when I first listened to them. Today I am 54 and still like it!
Same age my first exposure to Black Sabbath was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath that my brother bought along with Vol 4 from a thrift shop, I bought Deep Purple Machine head and Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti.
i am 60 been loving sabbath for 45 years now
Good Job 👍
Iconic
The drums will give you goosebumps
This song is one of Black Sabbath’s heavy metal classics. It even inspired sci-fi/fantasy author Nathan Godwin to write a horror story by the same title (which he dedicated to Black Sabbath). Awesome.
Funny how these "satanic" songs seem to always have the brightest and truest messages.
Almost as if the media and politicians don't want the people to know the truth and label such songs as satanic
@@beano9984 those were such simpler times. now satan is christian but the media still hates him
it's again ts war not satanic. it's all subliminal messages !!
Children of the grave might mean = dead soldier fighting for nothing... Just like in war pigs is a sarcastic way to say "politicians"
We have evolved. (I hope). And now we all see it as neutral music. Even if the themes are religion or anti-religion, or satanism, it's just music about make believe things, about a work of fiction.
Still so relevant. Love this song.
✝️ “For they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are the children of the resurrection”
Luke 20:34-36
The solo is one of the best ever made. it fits so well with the song all while being complex and badass
One of the greatest guitar riffs of all time
oh Children of the grave, do we think about you in times like these. so many of you gave up your lives during that war, fought the whole world for the greater good, and people spit in your faces. may your legacy live on and never be forgotten.
One of the greatest old school rock songs of all time.
Heavy Metal
for my brother Frank, who has just departed this world.....as kids, all we ever heard was black sabboth on his little record player, with mum and dad shouting....turn that down.../rip my b rother
This song fits perfect for today's world
Most definetely this keeps me from going off the edge
Deb Powers We thought the same in the seventies , rocking out getting stoned and trippin
This war pigs and electric funeral fuck the government taking from civilians and causing wars for profit
Timeless
It's funny people who know nothing of black sabbath think they sing about only satanic shit yet alot of there songs are about peace and utopia.
Sabbath is and always will be the best rock/metal band of all time
Me gusta el sonido denso, lodoso, obscuro con mucho punch...!!
Solo Black Sabbath lo hizo.
Una pieza maestra..!!
I grew up listening to this kind of music among other songs older than myself, and it saddens me to think of how relevant this still is in my era. We should be past the hatred and war by now, but humanity refuses to evolve.
Same. My sentiment exactly
absolutely legendary sabbath song, easily my favorite.
Bill Ward is a amazing drummer. Still holds up to this day.
I heard this song in 1976 I was 15, the kid from down the street had sold our souls album brought it over to my house I was immediately hooked. My parents didn’t understand this music especially when I started to buy Kiss albums lol! I absolutely still listen to all of this music!
I can get listening to the song over and over again without getting bored of it
Aussie is a legend, his music allways helps me escape the reality of what our world is coming to. I hope that one day we will all be able to shake hands and love one another. We have to change not as a country but as a species. We need to ditch the hatred greed and temptation that this world waves in our faces day by day. Maybe I may be one of the few people that think this way but I know others are out there that wish everything that us as humans have done to eachother in the past and learn to let go and start a new. But no matter what, I love everyone and everything no matter what because I know that if I can spread enough positivity that it may rub off on others around me. You have the power to change the world each and every one of you never forget that.
Love the drums, bass, guitar, ........the song! thanks for the lyrics!
My father introduced me to Black Sabbath in around 1975/76, and guess how old I am now? 43 :O
Likewise in '71 when I was 6. Still thanking him for that gift :-)
I am 66 still listening
I'm 43
@@tonymccusker501 I am 61 but feel young when I'm listening this!
@@tainamiinala1165 I'm 67 and still listening to black sabbath great band I never tire of them
Hard to believe this was 71! Unbelievably good!
5:18 I played this on my dad's quadrophonic stereo when he was at work. The drum track would go around the room in a circle through the 4 speakers in each corner. Only song I can think of that did that. It was so fucking awesome fir a young teen.
this opening riff is top 3 of all time easily, gets me every time
Man I really started listening to Sabbath about 2 months ago, and man have I loved every song. But this one, so heavy, yet so relevant, and true for the last 50 years. Now we fear the bomb more than ever, and most likely it will happen.
Those drums that play separately from the actual drums are epic
The generation of today could learn something from this song
Gavin Burgess-Moss And the others can't?
Go and see the band Motion Device. Maybe you change your opinion then.
Every human on earth can learn something from this song
I'm a Millennial, 22 years old at the time of this comment, and I love music like this and just older music in general. Too much of popular music starting some time after 2010 was made with an algorithm run by a computer. I'm not talking about dubstep or electronic music either, I'm talking about mainstream pop-music and stars like Katy Perry, Niki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, and even Taylor Swift despite the fact that she's generally considered at least somewhat more wholesome than certain other "artists". Today's music is systematically made to conform to highly repetitive and simple patterns which lack the rich complexity of older music. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist by saying it's a form of mind control, but these kinds of patterns do have a mind-numbing effect that makes people unable to appreciate more sophisticated songs.
Also on a side note, while I am not against sexual freedom in our society and I honestly probably have a few more semi-hard-core kinks than the average person, I have a passionate distaste for overtly sexual displays and explicit lyrics in mainstream pop music. I mean really, young kids listen to this stuff and it's terrible for their minds and bodies. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be songs about sex, some of the greatest classic rock songs and other such older pieces of music have clear sexual innuendos, but at least they (mostly) used more subtle and poetic language to express those ideas. (AC/DC can be kind of crude sometimes but I still love them.) What I am saying is that today's music should adopt the same methods of its processors for the overall artistic enrichment of society, and that we need to do a better job of keeping music with more mature themes away from the ears of those who are under the age of at least 13 in order to protect the innocence of childhood that seems to be under attack more than ever these days.
Motion Device what are you stupid
Holy fuck! I can't get over how heavy and prophetic this song is. Best Metal song ever! Change my mind?! 👇🏻
BEST BAND OF ALL TIMES !!!
My hubby and I saw them live. Best ever!
Those drums!
This song is very actual specially in nowadays that people in the world have hate in their hearts.
Music today doesn’t compare. Love Black Sabbath. Zep is my favorite. Still nothing comes close to this today. I belong in a different generation.
By the end of 1971 the comparisons between the two acts had CEASED
This song should be on all the protest playlists atm.....
Only if they are really Peaceably Protesting.Not Rioting like BLM and ANTIFA do.
@@gingerlord4983historical revisionism is one helluva drug
Listen to black sabbath when i was 12. Now 2019 still listen to Black sabbath...awesome
And the legend dates back to 1970……….
godfathers of metal
They are the fathers. They went where Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were scared to go.
no zep and blackmore where right there with these dudes in how they progressed '' and they will be right there in hell with these dudes'' believe that'' , its why blackmore said in a lot of his interviews he is afraid of dying''
mike n in hell for making good music???
Gods*
Genises of metal.
We all are children of the Grave
then you didnt get the meaning
That ending is so epic.
Not to mention the groove of the entire song. Love it.
This song is up there with Johnny B Goode. Imho.
One of my favourites!! love the drums phycotic trance
This is one of my favorite songs by Sabbath. I’m 13
thats what im talking about, we need more young people listening to good music... metal truly never dies
Same I'm 12
Age doesn't matter.
Livi Yuro you go kid
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
2:20
It's me or the gravity has been increased?
Still true to the day...
Written in 1971 by Ozzy. Amazing!
No Geezer Butler Wrote Black Sabbaths music. I love Ozzy and he is a great singer. But he is not a song writer even tho he claims to be one.
This song is so now!
I was never really a big fan of metal, then i got Brutal Legend for my birthday and it really turned me on to metal.
Guitar Hero is what got me into metal
Christians : RoCk AnD MeTaL ArE eViL.
Ozzy : hold my beer
Happy birthday Ozzy Osbourne. 69 years of crazy.
Gotham Academy soundtrack
the same age me me in september drink a glass wisky or bourbon?
hah 69
69 years of crazy and drugs.... dont forget the bat incident......
Over and over generations to generations eons to eons, this song & message ain’t never disappearing.
This song is reprsent all my dark days on the streets,Drugs alchool ,gambling fighting, my long hair and black lider jacket, Sabbath bloody sabbath
Still one of the great message songs..particularly the last set of lyrics....No you can't hold on to your anger and hate and expect love to blossom..
Thanks to Beavis and Butt-head for introducing me to this song.
When I was 15 years old I loved this song. It held a special meaning. You had to be there.
it is still relevant today
Got my copy for $0.50 at the flea market 1983 still listen to it today
You got one heckva deal man!
my favorite black sabbath song
Qué chingona rola black sabbath for ever.🍺🍺🍺🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
New Years 3 in the afternoon a dozen or so bongrips and as many shots of JD and it's 1982 and I was just learning about this band and 40 years on it's still just as raw as it ever was
The heavy metal hippies
Man oh mighty...this song makes me feel...
most powerful lyrics of any rock band ever
*METAL
Johnny English metal is a sub genre of rock
Paul Bengle. Pushing it a bit
+Jonte they are pure Heavy Metal
+Jonte blues+ Hard Rock=Heavy Metal
I remember years ago when I was a kid my parents forbid me to listen to Black Sabbath because when they were younger it was considered to be evil music. Black Sabbath isn't evil. They're an amazing band with the best music I've ever heard in my life. They still rock even by today's standards! Live on forever Black Sabbath!!!
real fucking music!!!
Great song ,great album.!!
Bill Ward kicks fn ass!
The drums go so hard
Huge Sabbath fan, this was the bands heyday.....nobody can touch this
Was going on 20 when the album was released, awesome time.
When I start a political revolution I'm going to use this song as our anthem
Truman Sharp I'd use bulls on parade
guess you missed the point of the song then
I'd use pumped up kicks and hell would break loose
I'm gonna narrow it down I'm going to use Metallica's The Four horsemen We As A Nation Must RISE UP NOW
Id use bee gees "Staying Alive"..just to piss off all ya mother fuckers..
Still listening to this legend song🎉🎉
My dad listened to these songs in his 20s... This feels kinda weird. Now they're classics, the grandmasters of metal.
Nothing cooler than a Black Sabbath listening dad
That's what people don't get , listen to Ozzy's songs , read between the lines , their lessons , he's my favorite singer ever , truth in rock words Rock on Ozzy
Passing by in the year of lord 2017.
Probably why I've always been drawn to metal love it's brutal honesty.
Lyrics still just as relevant today as they were in 1971.
That’s sad, think we would’ve learned by now.
The power mongers keep dividing and interfering. All stinking drunk on unchecked power!
In 1971 I was in my junior year in college and just starting to discover the music of Black Sabboth, which I continued to enjoy more and more and Ozzy as he went out on his own.
People does not makes music like this anymore..,"flows tears :(""
Jack Thapa Metal exists and thrives in the underground
There's Black Sabbath influenced retro doom metal bands that produce material like this.
Best Black Sabbath song, hands down.
Impossible do not headbang...
I A M TRYING TO. T - T - T - TO N-N -N-N OT
Failed before even reading this comment
There is only one problem with Black Sabbath music, It is heavily addictive !!
υπέροχο,αριστούργημα!
Ioannis Dospatis gkngilmnhh
🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮
Ellada
I LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR WITH SABBATH! METAL GENESIS HANDS DOWN....... LYRICS ARE INSIGHTFUL AND APPLY TODAY LOVE THE DARKSIDE
it's like a final boss theme.
Hahahaha
True True
my favorite boss theme
It is! the game is brütal legend the most metal video game
Perfect Volume Thank You So Much💚💚💚
Founding GODS and Fathers of Heavy Metal !!!
For all of those who want to argue between Pantera and Exhorder as who started groove metal...listen to this! Sabbath influenced them both and therefore they are the ones who influenced both. If not for Sabbath neither would have existed! And I'm a diehard Pantera fan but this is the foundation for all metal!