God that makes me feel proud to be British... can hear my late granny singing it, she was of that glorious war generation. Scottish by birth British by the grace of God 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
As an American Vera Lynn is one of my favorite singers. Her songs from World War II are so inspirational. I have many of her recordings. England should be very proud of her.
England will always be the land of hope and glory (send from France :)) my grand father escape from Nazi in England, integrated the polish free army based in London. if I'm today alive it's surely because of Britain.
I'm just an old Texas boy. I lived in Sussex for a year and felt right at home. Was a bit self-conscious of my 'Texas accent at first, but the Brits loved it. This lady, 'Dame Vera Lynn, my goodness she certainly puts the GREAT in Great Britain.
@@chapeltibet4551 I have American cousins and have visited America many times never made it to Texas though wish i had .My second cousin has a boy named Austin though.
I’m an American, but I love all the British patriotic songs, especially the ones from WW II. How could anyone not admire a people that fought years longer than we did? And for too long she stood alone against Hitler. Those songs have such spirit, and show such strength and determination. Sometimes I tear up, because they touch me so.
@@doctorabutros Doc, I'm from Texas as well, like the lad above...have dear friends in Brooklyn. Isn't it great we're old enough, or history-sensitive enough to appreciate Vera Lynn and that time. I have a challenge for anyone to take up: purchase a Balsa, stick and paper Spitfire flying model Aircraft Kit. Putting it together and flying it around the patch does something which starring into a phone will never do. Building confidence is just one of the benefits. It will at least, give one some vague idea of the effort it took to build one Spitfire.. but this is what we did do as kids in the 50's.. play outside in the Sun, build models and read books. TV ruined a lot of that.
Wow, I thought she was long gone to be honest (my excuse is that I'm not English, nor British). Shameful for the BBC to want to censor this song -- regardless, but especially so soon after her death. I assume her rendition is one of the most well-known ones.
@@Vingul Yes politics gets everywhere strange that people can get so excited about politics ,i just think politics has no place in sport,entertainment and many other past times.Vere Lynn had such good diction ,note how far she was from the microphone .
At the time of writing it holds both #1 and #10 on the chart (two different versions, I presume). An orchestral version of "Rule Britannia" holds the #2 spot. Heartwarming to see.
@@zanmei7261 take care of the poor neighborhoods that need help in the U.K. Family🇬🇧 comes first. Help others when your own are taken care of!🙏🏽🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦👍🏻
As an Englishman who’s lived in OZ, NZ and now resides in Canada this makes my back straight and pushes my chest out. In my head I can hear my sweet Welsh Nan in the kitchen singing it now. Wish I could smell her “cowboy breakfast” or Welsh lamb roasting away. What I would do to have Grandad alive in the corner on his stool eating bacon n eggs with a dab of HP reading the paper. Beautiful people. Proud people. Strong people. The world needs more old school grandparents.
I am an old school Scottish Granny, 91 yrs. Still going strong! You brought a tear to my eye Aboot yer Gran! You have a lot to be proud of, All Scot’s do. I’d like to be back in Aberdeen at ‘ Hogmanay’!! Is it still first footing?? 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦🙋♀️
@@johnjones6601 I can relate, I was 8 when war broke out. Aberdeen Scotland was bombed continuously, we had ship yards, and munition factories. Those are memories that stay with you forever. 🏴🇨🇦🙏🏽👍🏻
You said it, mate. It's not just there in Great Britain but also happening here in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, etc. We're all being hit on the head and told by the critical race theorists that we're all the bad guys, that our histories are bad, and our heroes were bad, as they try to rewrite our histories in order to take over the future. George Orwell had already predicted how the tyrants take power by changing history, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." In 1984, he also wrote, "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Sound familiar? The telescreens are on the wall! They're also in the iPhones, the cars, the TV's. If Bezos, Musk et al. have their way, they'll be on chips inside your head, too.
@@doctorabutros Bro... Spot on..the other book which is perhaps equally as poignant that we read in college in 1962 was Huxley's, Brave New World" which may be even more on point.
I Agree with you and the only way to get Some sense back in this County is to do what I've saying for years and that is to Make Voting Compulsory and get the General Public to Revolte
One of the most inspiring songs ever written, and then to have Vera Lynn singing it. Makes me want to stand up and cheer, and I'm an American. Just fantastic!
today, the world has lost one of its greatest symbols of strength and resistence and briton lost a part of its national identity.. May she forever live in our hearts.
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Thank you England for standing alone against the Nazi in WWll. Thank you Jesus for Sir Winston Churchill the image of the greatness of England. From the 🇺🇸
Agree Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland as well join England never thought I’d see division in our island I’m a proud scot and British glad I’m the age I I’m.so sad.
Remember that we will meet her again! She is always with you, flying high as an angel. Rest in peace Dame Vera Lynn 1917-2020. Thanks you for everything, truely an astonishing woman!
I am a Hong Konger .I am suffering enough from the communist government and party in HK . Hopefully, “The Land of Hope and Glory” may welcome me. Mother I am coming home.
i may not live in britan but i feel it my moral duty to up hold the standard of living represented by Great Britain. not only as a member of the Commonwealth but as a servant who pledges allegiance to Her Majesty The Queen. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
I am a loyal Australian, When I was in the cadet corp and later the army I swore on the Holy Bible to serve both Queen and Country. how can I now be a republican> NEVER. God save our Queen
Vera is the same generation as my mother who died last year aged 99. With German origin born in today Lithuania there are so many things which are hard to remember and to find similar situations now 2 or 3 generations later. With my mother I had the chance to visit in 2000 all previous known places in today's Lithuania, think something also in 2022 counts especially with current threats there. Vera is my idol from that generation, something my mother could never forward to the next generations in some way, also she liked to dance in the 40's until forbidden, etc.. Vera now my hero to remember from a different perspectice, unfortunately the war diary extends until today in Ukraine with our family. Thanks for reading this!
With all the recent striff in the UK, this should bring us all together. Those who burned our flag should tremble. This is the land of hope and glory and the home of the free. Whatever happens if we remover this we can move on and be Great Britain together!
……Vera Lynn’s voice kept the spirits of everyone up during WW2. Especially the troops. Her voice was so pure and beautiful. I still listen to her songs today. Great Dame Vera.👍🏻🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦
Eyewatering to see the path this amazing nation has taken. Such a strong identity full of pride and prosperity, only to be wiped out by excessive political correctness and being a minority in 2060. I seriously cried when I came back from London, it was a total shock for me. Feeling a bit melancholic when hearing this music. What in gods name has become of the West? Greetings from an adoring neighbour from the Netherlands.
@@westwoods7675 Yes. And? Pride in one's strength is what builds great Empires. Once the corrosive spirit of doubters and shamers starts to hold sway, things begin to rot. Let's rediscover our warrior spirits and rebuild the glories of the past.
@@awesomemarcbolan It is about patriotism and pride to belong to one nation even in difficult moments...I think the way this fascinating lady sings this patriotic song is out of the world, and although the lyrics are helplessly refering to past glory, you can transcend the meaning if you sing it with the same spirit than in this insuperable rendition.
Ladies and gentlemen, we must do our very best to get this to the top of the charts. Lets put these snobbish political correctness crazies in their place.
I have no land no glory but I have hope 🇬🇧 love Vera Lynn 💞 England treasure . I will been seeing you one day from a fellow cockney girl godbless darling 💗 you are a true English ROSE xx 💖🇬🇧
She'll remain the nations sweetheart until the end. May she rest in peace, and her pitch perfect singing be eternal in the hearts of our soldiers and sailors abroad.
I really like this song (not British here), I love the song "The White Cliffs of Dover" by Vera Lynn, my aging father who is from the WWII error as a child period turned me on to these recently, songs that actually say something, amazing ...... thanks for sharing! God Bless
always moves me to tears...she was such an inspiration...all those years of suffering and yet OUR gal...could lift us up. I smile at the times when we Brits call someone out gal or our lad..those are words meant with great affection and very spirtual thing. Born of us, a legend she became. Who can forget...never forget.
Vera Lynn was a great singer she brought our boys back home in the first and second world wars. As we go into a new decade it looks like we’re on the edge of war with Russia we could do with another voice like Vera Lynn to get us home and safe in Bing circle goodbye Vera Lynn R I P🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧⚓️
Thank you posting this great lady. Some of the so-called sreaming so-called stars of today should listen to her perfect diction and learn how to sing.. This should be our national anthem.
When Germany fell under the devil's spell; when Russia was in cahoots; when France surrendered without so much as a whimper; when courageous but powerless European states were crushed under the jackboot; when the US looked away; alone stood the British Empire, defiant, in its last moments before being consigned to history. We all love laughing at England now (me especially), but it sends shivers down my spine how their empire came to end.
An absolutely brilliant rendition of this wonderful song. Nobody but nobody will ever sing it like Dame Vera Lynn did. This more than any other, will always be the song she is remembered for.
Amazing Singer..When I hear this song and others she sings It makes me think of my late Mum and Dad.Both in WW2 both young and doing their duty..They never shied away from the Call...Like so many back then they Rose to the challenge..I wonder howmany now of the WOKE crowd would do that..What would their Inspirational song be..something from Cardi B ;)
It was a idea of the Dutch showmaster Willem Duys and is recorded in the Netherlands with the dutch Maastreechter staar choir. After that it became a worldwide hit.
Encompasses a mind set whereby civilization, prosperity and notions of individual rights were brought to the world, not with a vainglorious arrogance, but with certainty of the mission, a mission which outlasted tyrannies of all sorts.. Dame Vera captures the motive force of generations in this rendition...we need remember that over 2 billion people alive today are directly the beneficiaries of that mission, with a couple billion more indirectly touched.........the Empire stood for something in this world....and it was the world that benefitted far more than Britain ever did....
I am half English, half German. I live in Holland, precisely between England and Germany. All three countries are losing their identity; all three Germanic lands, age-old bastions of Western European culture, are being islamised, arabised and africanised. It makes me very sad. I pray every day that the English, Dutch and Germans - indeed all of western Europe - will rise up against the corrupt traitors who have sold us out and agreed to kill off our once-glorious race.
Germany was our natural ally well Holy Roman Empire/German Confederacy and our French Alliance of Convenience caused UK's most damage. Any Germans fans, I am ready to speak further.
I love the lyrics to this beautiful song, and I know it is a British song, but to me, it is the song I marched up the aisle to, on graduation day many years ago, as "Pomp and Circumstances" by Elgar!
Land Of Hope And Glory Edward Elgar - Land of Hope and Glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee Who are born of thee? Wider still, and wider Shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty Make thee mightier yet! Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned God make thee mightier yet! On Sov'ran brows, beloved, renowned Once more thy crown is set Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained Have ruled thee well and long; By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained Thine Empire shall be strong Thy fame is ancient as the days As Ocean large and wide: A pride that dares, and heeds not praise A stern and silent pride Not that false joy that dreams content With what our sires have won; The blood a hero sire hath spent Still nerves a hero son
God that makes me feel proud to be British... can hear my late granny singing it, she was of that glorious war generation. Scottish by birth British by the grace of God 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@59jalex long live the union 🏴🏴🏴☘️=🇬🇧
She left this world with pride for her country 🇬🇧 & the dreams of so many. May she Rest In Peace.
Oh ME TOO PATRICIA VANDA SULLIVAN
Born addiscombe e croydon
1934
As an American Vera Lynn is one of my favorite singers. Her songs from World War II are so inspirational. I have many of her recordings. England should be very proud of her.
England will always be the land of hope and glory (send from France :)) my grand father escape from Nazi in England, integrated the polish free army based in London. if I'm today alive it's surely because of Britain.
Great to see polish people who are grateful. The feeling us mutual.
God bless the free world.
We are all here today because of those amazing people who kept us all free 🙏🏻
It makes me proud that there are people like you who think this of us, thank you
😀🇬🇧
I have the highest of respect for you Poles✌️ you fought for both yourselves and Us
Love from the land of hope and glory
I'm just an old Texas boy. I lived in Sussex for a year and felt right at home. Was a bit self-conscious of my 'Texas accent at first, but the Brits loved it. This lady, 'Dame Vera Lynn, my goodness she certainly puts the GREAT in Great Britain.
What a great comment! “She puts the GREAT in great Britain.“
As a Brit I love the Texas accent. Vera Lynn can not get more British and what diction and what a voice.
The US will always be our ally, proud of that bond mate
Yes. Even though we had that terrible independence war, there is a bond that will not be broken. Rule Britannia!
@@chapeltibet4551 I have American cousins and have visited America many times never made it to Texas though wish i had .My second cousin has a boy named Austin though.
I’m an American, but I love all the British patriotic songs, especially the ones from WW II.
How could anyone not admire a people that fought years longer than we did? And for too long she stood alone against Hitler.
Those songs have such spirit, and show such strength and determination. Sometimes I tear up, because they touch me so.
X factor could search for another 200 years and they would never find another british icon like Vera Lynn
I don't know those D -Day Dames are pretty good!
There is none like the English speaking people’s....God made us mighty....
Reminds me of Elizabeth the first. "I am a woman but with the heart of a lion".
Hey, I'm a Texas boy and I just love this.
I'm from Brooklyn. I feel just the same!
@@doctorabutros Doc, I'm from Texas as well, like the lad above...have dear friends in Brooklyn. Isn't it great we're old enough, or history-sensitive enough to appreciate Vera Lynn and that time. I have a challenge for anyone to take up: purchase a Balsa, stick and paper Spitfire flying model Aircraft Kit. Putting it together and flying it around the patch does something which starring into a phone will never do. Building confidence is just one of the benefits. It will at least, give one some vague idea of the effort it took to build one Spitfire.. but this is what we did do as kids in the 50's.. play outside in the Sun, build models and read books. TV ruined a lot of that.
@@doctorabutrosI'm so glad that this song touches other hearts and not just us English. God bless you all
Sad news that Vera Lynn died today. An end of an era that is now for sure.
Wow, I thought she was long gone to be honest (my excuse is that I'm not English, nor British). Shameful for the BBC to want to censor this song -- regardless, but especially so soon after her death. I assume her rendition is one of the most well-known ones.
@@Vingul Yes politics gets everywhere strange that people can get so excited about politics ,i just think politics has no place in sport,entertainment and many other past times.Vere Lynn had such good diction ,note how far she was from the microphone .
R.I.P. Dame Vera.
Well done Dame Vera - number 1 in the British I-tunes chart August 2020. The silent majority are still firmly patriotic despite the BBC's antics.
There's hope for Britain yet!
At the time of writing it holds both #1 and #10 on the chart (two different versions, I presume). An orchestral version of "Rule Britannia" holds the #2 spot. Heartwarming to see.
God save the Queen, God save England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Fuck the BBC.
@@zanmei7261 take care of the poor neighborhoods that need help in the U.K.
Family🇬🇧 comes first. Help others when your own are taken care of!🙏🏽🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦👍🏻
HELL YEAH THE MAJORITY OF BRITAIN STILL LOVE BRITAIN IM CANADIAN AND I LOVE MY HISTORY!!!
As an Englishman who’s lived in OZ, NZ and now resides in Canada this makes my back straight and pushes my chest out.
In my head I can hear my sweet Welsh Nan in the kitchen singing it now.
Wish I could smell her “cowboy breakfast” or Welsh lamb roasting away. What I would do to have Grandad alive in the corner on his stool eating bacon n eggs with a dab of HP reading the paper. Beautiful people. Proud people. Strong people.
The world needs more old school grandparents.
Hear, hear brother.
They were the best generation who bore witness to 2 world wars and never shirked their duty to family or country.🙏👏
I am an old school Scottish Granny, 91 yrs. Still going strong! You brought a tear to my eye Aboot yer Gran! You have a lot to be proud of, All Scot’s do. I’d like to be back in Aberdeen at ‘ Hogmanay’!! Is it still first footing??
👍🏻🏴🇨🇦🙋♀️
@@johnjones6601 I can relate, I was 8 when war broke out. Aberdeen Scotland was bombed continuously, we had ship yards, and munition factories. Those are memories that stay with you forever. 🏴🇨🇦🙏🏽👍🏻
Here’ to your Welsh Granny. 🙏🏽🌹
@@bettyrobb8219 Bless you, would love to hear more stories of you, thanks for sharing stay healthy!
An important line mother of the free - would be nice if politicians remembered this line
I echo your comment. More than ever in May 2020
25 years old. English, listen to this EVERYDAY. Have on vinyl.
Based.
We must bring our country back to its senses. We live in tyrannous times.
You said it, mate. It's not just there in Great Britain but also happening here in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, etc. We're all being hit on the head and told by the critical race theorists that we're all the bad guys, that our histories are bad, and our heroes were bad, as they try to rewrite our histories in order to take over the future. George Orwell had already predicted how the tyrants take power by changing history, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." In 1984, he also wrote, "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Sound familiar? The telescreens are on the wall! They're also in the iPhones, the cars, the TV's. If Bezos, Musk et al. have their way, they'll be on chips inside your head, too.
@@doctorabutros Bro... Spot on..the other book which is perhaps equally as poignant that we read in college in 1962 was Huxley's, Brave New World" which may be even more on point.
@@doctorabutros In my head there is plenty of space… the chip would go lost, poor lonely chip! 😥
Neglected for too long a time with the political diversion to EU when the great Commonwealth families have been grossly forgotten.
I Agree with you and the only way to get Some sense back in this County is to do what I've saying for years and that is to Make Voting Compulsory and get the General Public to Revolte
One of the most inspiring songs ever written, and then to have Vera Lynn singing it. Makes me want to stand up and cheer, and I'm an American. Just fantastic!
today, the world has lost one of its greatest symbols of strength and resistence and briton lost a part of its national identity.. May she forever live in our hearts.
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Thank you England for standing alone against the Nazi in WWll. Thank you Jesus for Sir Winston Churchill the image of the greatness of England. From the 🇺🇸
I feel I ought to stand to attention! Makes me weep to think what is happening to my England
Agree Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland as well join England never thought I’d see division in our island I’m a proud scot and British glad I’m the age I I’m.so sad.
Greatest country on earth. 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
So sad to hear of her passing, but thank God we still have her wonderful songs .
Remember that we will meet her again! She is always with you, flying high as an angel. Rest in peace Dame Vera Lynn 1917-2020. Thanks you for everything, truely an astonishing woman!
Almost doesn't seem possible that this was just 60 years ago, almost to the day. What have we allowed to have done to us
Powerful British expression of a proud and measured British emotional performance. Proud to be (half) English.
I am a Hong Konger .I am suffering enough from the communist government and party in HK . Hopefully, “The Land of Hope and Glory” may welcome me. Mother I am coming home.
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Where and why did all go wrong.A wonderful song full of emotion for a great nation
How many of Brits could remember words of this song today? Sing it as long is not forbridden.
bob1988y I am from China, but I can do that and introduce it to my friends. Music is properties of all human being all over the world.
Sing it even then.
It's racist to sing it, lol.
@Mini van I'm being facetious, sarcastic...
@Mini van Hi from an ex Wallsender now proud Canadian.
This is the most beautiful version I’ve seen yet. It’s slow, but you can tell what she’s singing.
Wow, how proud of Vera are we?
i may not live in britan but i feel it my moral duty to up hold the standard of living represented by Great Britain. not only as a member of the Commonwealth but as a servant who pledges allegiance to Her Majesty The Queen. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Sam O'Driscoll Where are you from? Your name sounds Irish.
I am a loyal Australian, When I was in the cadet corp and later the army I swore on the Holy Bible to serve both Queen and Country. how can I now be a republican> NEVER. God save our Queen
thank you for you're services, much love from the united kingdom.
Irish names and Scottish Aussies. The Commonwealth of Nations is alive and well.
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Brings a tear to the eye!
Beautiful rendition!
Vera is the same generation as my mother who died last year aged 99. With German origin born in today Lithuania there are so many things which are hard to remember and to find similar situations now 2 or 3 generations later. With my mother I had the chance to visit in 2000 all previous known places in today's Lithuania, think something also in 2022 counts especially with current threats there.
Vera is my idol from that generation, something my mother could never forward to the next generations in some way, also she liked to dance in the 40's until forbidden, etc..
Vera now my hero to remember from a different perspectice, unfortunately the war diary extends until today in Ukraine with our family. Thanks for reading this!
With all the recent striff in the UK, this should bring us all together. Those who burned our flag should tremble. This is the land of hope and glory and the home of the free. Whatever happens if we remover this we can move on and be Great Britain together!
Without any doubt one of the best interpretations of that song. What a voice!
……Vera Lynn’s voice kept the spirits of everyone up during WW2. Especially the troops. Her voice was so pure and beautiful. I still listen to her songs today.
Great Dame Vera.👍🏻🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦
I have a tear in my eye,R.I.P Vera Lynn.
This is my national anthem.
Vera Lynn was wonderful performing this song. I'm proud to be English
what is happening to our great country it brings a tear to ones eyes the great has gone in GT Britain
Eyewatering to see the path this amazing nation has taken.
Such a strong identity full of pride and prosperity, only to be wiped out by excessive political correctness and being a minority in 2060. I seriously cried when I came back from London, it was a total shock for me.
Feeling a bit melancholic when hearing this music.
What in gods name has become of the West?
Greetings from an adoring neighbour from the Netherlands.
You know that this song was about empire and colonizing other people?
+Westwoods I don't care.....it's a beautiful song.
@@westwoods7675 Yes. And? Pride in one's strength is what builds great Empires. Once the corrosive spirit of doubters and shamers starts to hold sway, things begin to rot. Let's rediscover our warrior spirits and rebuild the glories of the past.
@@westwoods7675 No it isn't it's about Britain being free.
@@awesomemarcbolan It is about patriotism and pride to belong to one nation even in difficult moments...I think the way this fascinating lady sings this patriotic song is out of the world, and although the lyrics are helplessly refering to past glory, you can transcend the meaning if you sing it with the same spirit than in this insuperable rendition.
Listening from Pennsylvania. This song inspires regardless of your home. However, it certainly makes us wish we were British.
Every time I hear this lovely song, I get a cold feeling inside of me. Lovely patriotic song - should be sung everyday - just for the fun of it.
Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. Sadly Britain is now reaping the latter.
This was recorded in the Netherlands. With the Maastrichter Staar as Choir:-)
This version is going in my favourites. Well done to our friends in the Netherlands.
It's magnificent.
Ladies and gentlemen, we must do our very best to get this to the top of the charts. Lets put these snobbish political correctness crazies in their place.
Done
I love Vera Lynn. What a wonderful voice. 😀
Dame Vera, a National Treasure, one of the greatest Britons of the 20th Century.
A great song to end a terrible year
Wish we heard this more today. We were taught to be proud of our British and Scotish heritage, even though we were born in USA.
How wonderful of the Dutch people to ask Vera to sing this!!!! She certainly didn't have to hug the mic! Wonderful voice.
No matter how many times i watch this, it ALWAYS makes my hairs stand on end
A wonderful song that fills me with pride for the 'once' Great Britain. A Britain and its proud traditions now sadly lost.
God bless England and all the people of the United Kingdom, America and we Americans love you with all our hearts! Bob`s your uncle!
And we love you too. Brothers joined at the hip.
I have no land no glory but I have hope 🇬🇧 love Vera Lynn 💞 England treasure . I will been seeing you one day from a fellow cockney girl godbless darling 💗 you are a true English ROSE xx 💖🇬🇧
She'll remain the nations sweetheart until the end. May she rest in peace, and her pitch perfect singing be eternal in the hearts of our soldiers and sailors abroad.
I really like this song (not British here), I love the song "The White Cliffs of Dover" by Vera Lynn, my aging father who is from the WWII error as a child period turned me on to these recently, songs that actually say something, amazing ...... thanks for sharing! God Bless
“Wider still and wider”. That is the Britain that I know during the old days.
Sends a shiver through me . She was certainly the woman of the moment .
Me too, my grandmother was there and I watched this video with her.
always moves me to tears...she was such an inspiration...all those years of suffering and yet OUR gal...could lift us up. I smile at the times when we Brits call someone out gal or our lad..those are words meant with great affection and very spirtual thing. Born of us, a legend she became. Who can forget...never forget.
Love is what's missing in this world an a hold lot of respect
Vera Lynn was a great singer she brought our boys back home in the first and second world wars. As we go into a new decade it looks like we’re on the edge of war with Russia we could do with another voice like Vera Lynn to get us home and safe in Bing circle goodbye Vera Lynn R I P🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧⚓️
Stunning, what an legend, god bless dear Vera ❤️💕💕🥰🥰🥰❤️💕💕
Im not even british, im filipino, but i love this song and British legacy and history🇵🇭🇬🇧❤
Every true brit should play this every day as loud as possible to show we won't be beaten by THEM...
Such beautiful memories growing up in Great Britain, I feel so sad when I see what's happening there now!
It's turned into a zoo...and Brexit isn't going to make a damn bit of difference.
Peter Clark What exactly is "happening" there now that makes you feel sad?
Such hidden power she has which brought out the real spirit of the song for any nation who honours God.
They will never erase our PROUD history!!!!!!
Thank you Dame Vera Margaret Lynn, for making it to 103 years old. March 20, 1917-June 18, 2020
I'M an Australian and loyal to our mutual King. Proud of my British heritage.God Bless Britain.
Why this was not made our National Anthem is beyond me, ...it would inspire anyone !
Should be played every morning in the Houses of Parliament
Good Idea!!..🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦👏
A great song for a great country. Thank you.
I've come from L'Internationale and March of the Volunteers. Moved by this piece too! It's the power of music!!
Thank you posting this great lady. Some of the so-called sreaming so-called stars of today should listen to her perfect diction and learn how to sing.. This should be our national anthem.
Every time I listen to this...I feel it would be all inspiring before Battle..
Wow! I'm an American and I absolutely LOVE this song. And Very Lynn's rendition here can't be beat. Of course, I love "Jerusalem," too.
When Germany fell under the devil's spell; when Russia was in cahoots; when France surrendered without so much as a whimper; when courageous but powerless European states were crushed under the jackboot; when the US looked away; alone stood the British Empire, defiant, in its last moments before being consigned to history. We all love laughing at England now (me especially), but it sends shivers down my spine how their empire came to end.
It is our fault we fought the wrong enemy
An absolutely brilliant rendition of this wonderful song.
Nobody but nobody will ever sing it like Dame Vera Lynn did.
This more than any other, will always be the song she is remembered for.
R.I.P., Miss Lynn. You will be missed.
This is beyond amazing! What a nation!😍
What it was sadly!
Thanks From Nova Scotia,
Amazing Singer..When I hear this song and others she sings It makes me think of my late Mum and Dad.Both in WW2 both young and doing their duty..They never shied away from the Call...Like so many back then they Rose to the challenge..I wonder howmany now of the WOKE crowd would do that..What would their Inspirational song be..something from Cardi B ;)
Yes Dame Vera Lynn says it all. ...let us be again Great
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Magnificent.
Oh Dame Vera Lynn....one of the absolute BEST OF BRITAIN
Who would even attempt to sing that song after Vera Lynn's performance. Absolutely breathtaking!!!
Happy 100th birthday, Vera! :D
It was a idea of the Dutch showmaster Willem Duys and is recorded in the Netherlands with the dutch Maastreechter staar choir. After that it became a worldwide hit.
so beautiful!
One can hear every letter of every word. She has a beautiful voice.
in times were Britain was GREAT!!!!!!!
Encompasses a mind set whereby civilization, prosperity and notions of individual rights were brought to the world, not with a vainglorious arrogance, but with certainty of the mission, a mission which outlasted tyrannies of all sorts.. Dame Vera captures the motive force of generations in this rendition...we need remember that over 2 billion people alive today are directly the beneficiaries of that mission, with a couple billion more indirectly touched.........the Empire stood for something in this world....and it was the world that benefitted far more than Britain ever did....
TRUE BRITS,SING THIS WITH PRIDE IN YOUR HEARTS!
May human kind turn the world into a world of hope and glory
RIP Dame Vera.
What a voice!! ❤
magnificent performance by a great lady.
RIP Vera your country salutes you
Great song by an overwhelming artist of all times.
I am half English, half German. I live in Holland, precisely between England and Germany. All three countries are losing their identity; all three Germanic lands, age-old bastions of Western European culture, are being islamised, arabised and africanised. It makes me very sad. I pray every day that the English, Dutch and Germans - indeed all of western Europe - will rise up against the corrupt traitors who have sold us out and agreed to kill off our once-glorious race.
THIS!
Germany was our natural ally well Holy Roman Empire/German Confederacy and our French Alliance of Convenience caused UK's most damage. Any Germans fans, I am ready to speak further.
I love the lyrics to this beautiful song, and I know it is a British song, but to me, it is the song I marched up the aisle to, on graduation day many years ago, as "Pomp and Circumstances" by Elgar!
Je ne m'en lasse pas, quelle merveille
Land Of Hope And Glory
Edward Elgar - Land of Hope and Glory
Mother of the Free
How shall we extol thee
Who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider
Shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet!
Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned
God make thee mightier yet!
On Sov'ran brows, beloved, renowned
Once more thy crown is set
Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained
Have ruled thee well and long;
By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained
Thine Empire shall be strong
Thy fame is ancient as the days
As Ocean large and wide:
A pride that dares, and heeds not praise
A stern and silent pride
Not that false joy that dreams content
With what our sires have won;
The blood a hero sire hath spent
Still nerves a hero son
"Edward Elgar - Land of Hope and Glory" - no, (Sir) Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance march no. 1. (No. 4 is good too.) He didn't write the words.
What in increbible voice❤❤❤
Adoro!!!
Absolutely beautiful....Defund the(intentionally lower case)bbc