Chris Gard - "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN"
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Music written, produced and performed by Chris Gard
All songbook poems arranged by Panama Hat.
"White Man's Burden" as a poem was originally written by Rudyard Kipling.
Download song here: chris-gard.ban...
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Take up the White Man's burden -
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
A hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden -
The savage wars of peace -
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden -
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper -
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead !
Take up the White Man's burden -
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard -
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night ?"
Take up the White Man's burden -
Ye dare not stoop to less -
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden -
Have done with childish days -
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.
Take up the White Man's burden
Through all the thankless years
Do some of you folks still unironically believe in imperialism? I am genuinely puzzled as to why youtube allows for this type of content, quite disgusting.
Shut. Is a piece of history. That is all.
@@MackKnight1948 Yeah right, sure is
This is literally a piece of poetry by a revered poet that was able to convey the experiences of military history in a way that no one else could.
This poem already has many readings on UA-cam and also government broadcasting.
It is historical record.
@@chrisgardbard No piece of poetry which is unironically called "white man's burden" should ever be taken seriously, leave the 19th century be mister. This whole thing really looks like those channels who upload "folk german music" that's actually just nazi music, if you want to be racist then at least be honest about it.
Please do us all a favor and never post another comment
I'm a Castizo from South America, i've been around, and i've come to the conclusion that almost everywhere is a disgrace except for majority european-descended regions.
Call me what you want, but it's the truth.
For those with European blood, listen to me, don't let them fool you, don't let your countries become like my own, a dysgenic, moronic corrupt dystopia.
You're the greatest people who ever lived, be proud of it.
As humans we are all children of God that makes us equal. But each race is unique in its own race. White peoples are more of a jack of all trades not great at one specific thing but we are good at a little bit of everything so we pull together and make nations great. But when our own people want to attack our nation and bring us to third world levels and call everything racist it makes people want to go to war the European nations have been corrupted with the show of pride
@@colelitteral8369it’s a mix of our own people and a foreign people doing the attacking
Proud and tempered with humility
My 2 reactions.
Raucous table pounding.
Return to understanding the horrible situation we find ourselves in.
A song with a carful balance. Grim reality treated with respect. The promised future treated with honesty. And the ideals treated with reverence.
Kilplings works often has this form of dualism in them. The hard bitter and painful reality, met with the beautiful glowing light of the ideal. His works are are best described as the cold uncaring universe versus the indomitable human spirit.
You Chris walk that line beautifuly. Filling lines with both profound sorrow and bursting pride. Making us weep for the pain those men went through and rejoice in the ideals they believed in.
It fills the soul with a heartache of nostalgia for a time we never lived in and a place that we have never been.
God's speed Chris and God save the King.
We will March to this when we retake Constantinople
In Minecraft*
@@chrisgardbard In real life 😎
TND
On playstation
Tsargrad =)
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I approve of you sir
I love your channel
Every europeans, Americans need to hear this and be proud of their ancestor stop being weak and soft the enemies are closing in!
Exactly. The enemies of God and mankind alike have brainwashed everyone to hate us, including our mothers and fathers. If we dont want to fall into oblivion, we have to wake up now
@You.Just.Lost.TheGameyou say that, but northern European countries are some of the most 'godless' or secular. However they are also the most high-trust, productive , and happy countries on earth. Finland is the happiest country on earth , and also one of the least religious. Norway second , little religiosity also. So it's not simply religion that makes a society stable. South America is possibly the most densely Catholic area , however it is riddled with barbarism and corruption. The threat is certainly external, I believe your view is a great stumbling block for many Europeans trying to reclaim their country from the grips of depravity
Chinese ❤
Russian❤
Iranians❤
Koreans❤
Indians❤
Arabs❤
You make this English patriot proud this day. Thank you.
Song has an incredible spirit💪✅️
I think this one is my favorite so far Chris. The fact that it pissed off that doofus Marco in the comments made it even better.
Brilliant performance, arrangement and video. Very well done
Okay, this is an amazing song, for several reasons. Kipling's poetry gives us an amazing insight into what these soldiers, explorers, and administrators thought of themselves; it gives colour and energy to the concept of a 'civilizing mission'. You get an inkling of what it must've felt like to those people, and it's hard not to be a little envious. At the same time it's hard not to see his words in an ironic light. 'Fill full the mouth of famine' becomes really harsh in hindsight when taking the Irish Famine or the Bengal Famine into consideration. At the same time there's also a lesson there that Western countries would have done well taking to heart in recent wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'By all ye cry or whisper, by all ye leave or do, the silent sullen peoples, shall weigh your Gods and you'. And all this is wrapped up and delivered to us in an amazing, jaw-dropping production. Chris, I love the stuff you're putting out. Please don't stop. Though if it's mainstream success you're looking for you might have to try some different material :D
Kipling's poem resonates to today - look at how charities try to "fill full the mouth of famine" with varying success. Is this the same impulse in different forms that drove so many in Victorian times ? Regardless real progress will come through education and a mind set to "teach a man to fish" - this seems to be having a profound impact in many countries leading to massive improvements in living standards versus even 30 or 40 years ago let alone 130. Good material delivered with spirit by Chris.
@@mrw6156 Imperialism was actually really good for the "teaching a man to fish" part of that. That's why the conditions in these countries, despite varying degrees of harshness from the Europeans, improved in living conditions for all people. They, after expelling the colonizers, collapsed into near-anarchy and are only now starting to recover.
I mean, no. It's literal. Famine was common before colonization and not after. European agricultural practices, and their spread, damn near ended famine across the globe. Damn near. We can't help corrupt foreigner governments hoarding their foreign aid.
Commenting because liking the video wasn't enough to show my appreciation
Youre too kind sir
Great Stuff. I will use this on my next weekend stream if I may Chris?
Absolutely mate. Please, help yourself :)
Will have a G.K. Chesterton Poem-Song out by next week ("A Cider Song")
The cool thing about the based songs is I never have to wait for a UA-cam ad to watch them. Unfair for mr. Gard Though.
The poem really comes to life when you set it to music like that. Great job! You did a credit to yourself and Kipling.
Simply beautiful. Your rendition of Kipling's masterpiece tugs on my Anglo-Saxon heartstrings like a poetic lyre plucked by my soldiering ancestors with every note sung. Well done, lad.
Based workout music
Fantastic!
@Chris Gard please do 'The Young British Soldier' by Rudyard Kipling next...
Thank you for your work.
Chills every time
Brilliant, thank you.
Wonderful performance. This poem shall be written on the Western world's memorial.
I heard you on Discord Dragons and I just wanted to let you know I appreciate this song
man I found this by looking for an arghoslent split, fucking fantastic surprise of a song
Just an ultimate rendering,by the mellifluent Bard.
Id say this is your best yet fren
Please make a high quality version available for download, amazing work
This song deserves way more views. Excellent “cover” if that’s what you call it.
I'd call it a musical rendition of a poem.
Absolutely beautiful
More!
Moor
@@chrisgardbard Dirty Moors, gotta civilize em.
Amazing.
Amazing deep voice. Great stuff.
I love this song ❤
Really well done thank you.
There is nothing racist here, it's a fact of life.
UA-cam is going to yeet this so hard! D:
Nahhh... White man's burden has a heap of live-readings from various people already on UA-cam.
@@chrisgardbard True, but none are as slapping as this! Also damn those are some exquisite paintings, had to track a few down by name, especially Soldiers of the Queen. As an returned serviceman (RAAF) I've got a soft spot for pageantry like that. Also, God Save the King!
@@bashkillszombies God Save the King
Yes some of the paintings and drawings brought a tear to my eye.
Who’s here from The Lotus Eaters
Me. You should listen to the Tommy one, it's an absolute bop!
@@billbobagoda4389 I feel like I'm in the meme of the two spidermen pointing at each other
@@bilbobalboa1499 Ay, hellow my fellow Bilbo!
Yes
@@billbobagoda4389the tommy one?
This is really beautiful! Would it be possible to purchase your music? I’d love to support your work!
When all the poetry songs are finished (I have to compose about 3 more), I will be getting all of them mixed properly by a professional engineer, and they will be purchasable in hard copy format or digital
@@chrisgardbard Awesome, thanks!
@@chrisgardbard Is the hard copy available currently?
@@chrisgardbard Just saying, I'd buy two copies, even thought it's free right here.
Silent sullen? If only they were silent!
I am not for the imperialism that Kipling wrote this poem to promote but I have to say that with these visuals it really makes me almost want to agree with it. In a vacuum that shot at 2:25 of the ships would make me want to join the military, but we know how that institution is doing these days.
Yeah, it's over.
Also, the poem doesn't promote imperialism.
@@chrisgardbardWell, idk if the American relationship with the Philippines counts as imperialism, since we took it off the Spanish after 300 years, so the imperialism was more or less done already when we got there, but he was encouraging America to take up the Philippines as a colonial project and join the rest of Europe in uplifting the world's savages by governing them, so it's kinda promoting imperialism. And we did take that invitation. The Philippines were an American territory for 50 years from the Spanish-American until after WW2. Tbf, the Philippines are really nice for the region, so it's not like that period of American governance was a crippling detriment to them.
The White Man's Burden in the Philippines: The Americans valued the Spanish language more than the native languages because the native languages were not seen as the languages of civilized people.
"As an incident of the educational scheme, literacy qualifications for the suffrage were confined to those who could read and write either
Spanish or English. This provision, while designed to stimulate acquisition of English speech had incidentally the efFect of propagating grave
misrepresentations of the situation. Attention has often been called to the fact that the qualified electorate is an extraordinarily small percentage of the adult male population, thus indicating that illiteracy generally prevails"---- Henry Ford,
Henry Ford (1851-1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official. after Wilson became president, Ford was sent to the Philippines on a special mission, reporting directly to the president
I don’t mean to bring down the mood, but…
Could the whole world be converted?
Could this have been done by the European empires?
Was this impossible because of, primarily, Faustian hubris? An imagining that the particulars of European norms (not Christian ones) were in fact universal?
(And secondarily, greed for wealth and lust for power)
Or are some cultures simply less capable of being Christianized?
Are some peoples less capable of being Christianized?
I am thinking particularly of China.
I know that the European empires did good things for their ‘new-caught, sullen peoples’, the most obvious being infrastructure, but if the intent was solely virtuous and not prideful or greedy at all, it *might* not have looked like empire at all.
I have come to think that virtue leads to success in the world, but also that sin parasitizes virtue. The fruit of virtue is lordship, lordship produces wealth and power, sin parasitizes wealth and power. Thus, you can only have a universal and eternal order if it is entirely free from sin.
Virtue can produce something from the ashes, in which sin still exists but cannot expand its scale of action. When men with virtue raise up a great empire, their sins are given great wealth by which to wreak great evils. Thus it is said of the wealthy, that they have more responsibility to do good and that it is hard for them to enter heaven.
That being said, a Christian empire, ruled by fallen men over fallen peoples though it is, still is far better than the atheistic ones of communism or other secular ideologies.
A very interesting and thought provoking comment, thank you for taking the time to write it.
Leaving this so I can come back every now and then
Is there an instrumental version?
Can be done yes
Beautiful piece. Would love to play on the piano.
Ace.
3:37 Where did you find this painting?!
Your view is simplistic. Rudyards poem itself was written as satire. It was a pushback against the goals of Imperialism and hence, colonialism. However, to critique, you need to understand the historical context. Over a century ago, Britain and American colonialism was not thought of as conquering, nor genocide. Imperialism was a paternalistic ideal to civilize those that ‘needed’ to be burdensomely-dragged out of their primitiveness. Therefore, the same people would be replaced with their industrialized better-selves.
Who is this directed at?
Bravo
Is it “take up”, or should it actually be “take off”?
The original version is “take up”, but today’s version should be “take off”. I’m rather sick of having responsibility for other groups but not power over ourselves.
@@edgymandrill And that, my friend, is the white man's burden exactly as Kipling envisioned it. We could give it up, yes, but then who would keep the world's light burning? We have to persevere until, as the poem and song says, everyone is really at our level: intellectually, morally, economically,technologically...
Or are we gonna allow others to tell us that it's okay to stone a woman for not wearing her face covered, that it's okay to cut powdered milk with chalk as long as it sells, that it's okay to kill another person if he doesn't profess the same faith or political belief or has the same colour of skin that us?
Like it or not, the "western world" that the white men built is the furthest advanced, and all of us (not only the "white men" that the poem mentions, also the women and the people of all races) should take that weight and carry it. Too bad there are still cowards that want to elude the weight that, in this new age, all of us are due.
I'm not sure I'm even white, I'm spanish and tanned and pretty sure I have gypsy and jewish ancestors, but damn right I'm taking my "white man's burden", and making a better world that I probably will never see.
Sorry for the wall of text, got inflammed by the song.
@@edgymandrill I love the musical arrangement and poem, but I do agree that the underlying sentiment was not the best. The act of building ports and roads for the future should be done for your descendants, not sullen and thankless other peoples.
@@artbandit8364 you also have to think at the time that white people never even dreamed of EVER being in the situation we are in now. Still many lives and resources wasted on a fruitless venture, but I suppose that it was also just a part of our more altruistic nature? Or perhaps it was just idealism.
@@artbandit8364 Boy are they thankless. So thankless that they cast their gifts and inheritance into the sea out of spite.
Record vocals pls
Will we be singing this at Nomos?
If you can pay for my plane tickets from and back to Australia 🤣🤣🤣
Deo Vindice
This need me likes and views who agree l
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I can barely tell if this is for imperialism at this point.
It's neither for or against. It's simply the reality of empire.
@@chrisgardbard I meant the original poem. I was not trying to impart anything to you but Thank You nonetheless.
1:19 3:17
Meanwhile in Britain: ua-cam.com/video/tZjAUcnBGxk/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
The Irony.
They're a nice folk, but they're a bit f-f-f-fluttered, a bit fluttered, awfully fluttered, a fluttered com-community.
IndoAryans 🤝AngloSaxons
This is the most ridiculous comment I read all day.
@@jishnu9551 why?
Sounds like PERSIAN PROPAGANDA to me
Wow for the most Rassist poet😂