Bought me to tears . My husband was killed in action in 2008 . I had 14 years I will never regret despite the difference in rank service and deployments. We watched this series during long skint nights he was putting me through uni. Bought back many happy but unmentionable memories of a great man who it was a honour to have been his adored wife. He was a loud mouth insubordinate but brilliant engineer. Nicknamed velcro by me. No point sewing on a hew stripe he got so frequently busted. My own tribute to him is rather unusual a back full of military tributes from our service numbers to our unit crests and the saltaire depicted like the RN ensign . I'm navy. Very unusual in a woman. I had them softened when I retired but adding of poppies and a sunbeam through clouds. No regrets. We had to go and face another foe but part of me will alway stay over the hills and far away ( the great glen) Dan 1974 to 2008. Your devastated wife
My condolences....my service was without danger and rather insignificant...still proud to have served, and totally in awe of greater men. Keep the faith.
I just wanted to say it sounds like your husband was a great man I'm so sorry for your loss I think there's a little piece of us all over the hill and far away I truly hope for you and your family lifes to be fruitful and filled with happiness may he rest in peace and may you live well and prosper 🙏
I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a great man. I am so glad you spent so many years together. In love and fun and the hardest moments you shared together❤. You and he are so blessed to have all the memories you share and shared. God bless you 🙏 ❤❤
The reason why Sean Bean dies in almost every film he's in is because he's trying to balance the scales from all the times he cheated death in the "Sharpe" series.
What I didn't like was when they changed how the novels where in the series, Harris in Sharpe's Waterloo novel doesn't appear in the novel but in the episode for unknown resins why did he appear he doesn't in the novel, and Hagman dies a different way instead of dying with Harris, he is wounded in the battle and dies of his wounds in Sharpe's Arms as I read Sharpe's Waterloo, the Chosen Men of course it would have been nice if Parry Jenkins featured in the series shame though, but I have plans to remake it in future,
Pete Postlethwaite could make you love him in one role and hate him with a vengeance in the next!! The sign of a true master of his craft,. Sadly missed.
I agree.If someone's playing a villain,it's their job to make you hate them or at least dislike them intensely.I loathed Ed Harris so much in one particular role,I hated the sight of him in anything until his role in Apollo 13.
I’ve loved this series for a long time. Every now and then I watch the entire series. I always enjoyed the songs at the end. The saddest episodes were the ones where Perkins was killed, Teresa’s death, then when Harris and Hagman were killed. Those episodes always made me cry
I came looking for this song because I've just started the show, didn't think the first comment would be spoiler that would ruin the rest of the show for me, that was really stupid of me to go the te comment feed, I didn't think
@@stanfordwillis4841 sorry didn’t mean to spoil it for anyone but most of the people have seen the series so they weren’t upset that I mentioned anything. But even then, I mentioned small parts of the series but you still find out why and what happened. But no need to be snippy about it. I’m sure there are other plot lines that are mentioned.
I got to hold Sgt Harper’s six barrel gun at the ‘Military Oddyssey’ in Kent while having my photo taken with Sgt Harris from the series. He was a regular at the Kent military show!
Fellow American and been watching the series with my dad. Crazy we never heard of this in the states but it’s beyond a incredible story and happy to have stumbled across it to see some historical insight on British history and heroics
@truckwarrior5944 I'll be honest, youtube taught me more of the napoleonic war than I learned in school. If its not the revolution, civil war, ww2 or Vietnam it's barely mentioned.
This was my grandads favourite song. We played it at his funeral. My grandad was a miner and died of enthasema, same as Pete postletwaite in brassed off. Hope you are still well 10 years on.
a great song to a great book/show. i use this songs lyrics to get me through some challenging parts of my life. i sung it over and over again when i testified against my boss. amazing how a song can do that. and to FearDivinty, you are the reason why europe hates us. i know i didnt tell him directly but, im in a good mood props to AndyFisher142
I don't know why I am listening to this in 2021. Perhaps I'm a fool. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic. Perhaps, but just perhaps, there is more. Much more. Perhaps just Perhaps, some things, just some things, are not limited by time of men. Perhaps I just like what I like? Or maybe, just mabe. Some things don't age. And time has no relevance to them. Because they are true in there own sense. Live free as men, or die as one. That is enough. Even in 2021.
As a former professional soldier, I understand this song and this series too well. We go out in service of politicians, most of which are self-interested bullshit, but we hang in for our brothers in arms.
Read the entire Sharpe's series and saw all the videos. I wish they had the budget to start Sharpe's Rifles in India with an illiterate Private Sharpe in the infantry with Hakeswell as his Squad Leader then carried through from there and the Battle of Trafalgar when Sharps was on is way home. The Baker rifle exhibited was one of the best arms the British had at the time for accuracy but frowned upon by the "gentlemen officers" who commanded infantry companies as being too slow to reload. The Baker could reach out to around 200 yards where 100 yards for the smoothbore musket was a challenge at best. Also, the 95th Rifles later became and still are the Royal Green Jackets.
I also would love to remake the Sharpe Series this song will do well for the remake, even to get the books correct that is, and the story correct, even the John Tams character whom plays Daniel Hagman's death at Waterloo, in the episode he dies alongside Harris but in the novel Harris is absent from Waterloo instead of Harris and Hagman dying together Hagman dies in the Battle of Waterloo but mortally wounded dying in Sharpe's arms, I only wish in the series that Parry Jenkins could have been perfect, shame though,
The idea is that each TV episode is diferent from it's book counter point. Both versions are excellent. But this way you can enjoy them both and they are different enough that you won't be bored. And ideally.....purchase both! :)
Sharpe, a nicely done series not quite the same as the books but decently done never the less. A shame there could have been more Sharpe's episodes made.
Does anyone know the history of this song? I heard it in the series Sharpe and love the song, I showed a few friends and they asked about it but I know not
I dunno, while I love Sharpe, I gotta say Cornwell's really refined his style in his new Saxon books with Uhtred and them. Fair is fair, I mean, you'd hope he'd only get better after 30-40 books. Sharpe, of course, will always have the superior sound track.
@Ein_Kunde_ spit loading never happened it's dangerous and stupid, but there's a reason there were 16 episodes. If it were that bad, it would have been dropped was based off books, and that's the other thing " BOOKS" an account of things that happened during that time, and I wonder how much of that was exaggerated?
I thought the 95th rifles participate in the war of 1812 here in the United States? Or was that another regiment that coincidentally shared the same number?
Let me tell you a little secret: The yearly expenses for medical purposes and treatment of the Sackscobourgotta are very serious. What if suddenly those antiincest medicines disappear? How much life you give them? I give them a week in the present state of the antiincest virus!
Y'know we're actually about the same size as France don't you? Plus while I'm glad we have a history of success as a nation, there are certainly few of us alive today that can claim to have taken part in any of them. I do think we're often painted unfairly as villains and that we have a right to defend our nation's history, but the days of empire are over (perhaps for the better) and to take pride in the achievements of others is a little unworthy.
I youtubed Sharpe here. Why are yee aplying modern WW1 and WW2 wars and idealogies to the Napoleonic wars???This is a completely different era. Sharpe is a brilliant representation of what happened here in Europe, during that period. Yee are talking about Germany and Russia - this has nothing to do with Sharpe, why can't yiz stick to the feckin' plot? Lets praise Sharpe here...
That's a rather narrow perspective. It's a little like saying that if you're right wing you're essentially Mosley. I'd also have to say that Orwell's idea of the left wing included some rather extreme examples of nationalism suggesting a bias toward clubbing all left wing politics into the Stalinist model which only masquerades as left wing.
How sad that people drag in WW1, WW2 etc etc blah blah into a song that was for a TV series set in Napoleonic europe... Sharpe was a great series set on some good novels that was historical fiction nothing more nothing less based around some historical factual moments its not meant to be fact but good escapism.
to be fair thats not true, it was an ideological objection to European imperial wars and a fear of splitting the population of many different nationalities that the americans refused to join in ww1, and when they did get involved, it was probably wrong to do so
@vostronas Not to be offensive, but the British never "handed" their development over to the U.S. At the time the nuclear weapon was such a terrorizing idea, that no country would've trusted another with the development of it. Of course, some british scientists were recruited into the Manhattan Project, but no information of importance was handed over to the U.S. That being said, I can't rightly say if the UK would've been able to win the war on their own, I'm not that strong in WWII History.
Actually it did, but I was just wondering if you'd bothered to read anything I'd posted. Please re-read it (if you bothered before I suggested you were a fascist). I think you'll find that I never put England down (although you did refer to me as British which I found quite offensive considering your following arguements).
to be fair, if you look at a history book on the eastern front the russians were engaging the vast bulk of the german forces who were both better equipped and trained as well as with larger numbers than the german forces serving on the western front, by d day the soviets were already pretty much certain to defeat Germany, and there would still probably be some kind of allied invasion in the west with the canadians and british given the weakness of Germany when the russians were beating them
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Bought me to tears . My husband was killed in action in 2008 . I had 14 years I will never regret despite the difference in rank service and deployments. We watched this series during long skint nights he was putting me through uni. Bought back many happy but unmentionable memories of a great man who it was a honour to have been his adored wife. He was a loud mouth insubordinate but brilliant engineer. Nicknamed velcro by me. No point sewing on a hew stripe he got so frequently busted. My own tribute to him is rather unusual a back full of military tributes from our service numbers to our unit crests and the saltaire depicted like the RN ensign . I'm navy. Very unusual in a woman. I had them softened when I retired but adding of poppies and a sunbeam through clouds. No regrets. We had to go and face another foe but part of me will alway stay over the hills and far away ( the great glen) Dan 1974 to 2008. Your devastated wife
Chosen man!
Peace to the Fallen
My condolences....my service was without danger and rather insignificant...still proud to have served, and totally in awe of greater men. Keep the faith.
I just wanted to say it sounds like your husband was a great man I'm so sorry for your loss I think there's a little piece of us all over the hill and far away I truly hope for you and your family lifes to be fruitful and filled with happiness may he rest in peace and may you live well and prosper 🙏
I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a great man. I am so glad you spent so many years together. In love and fun and the hardest moments you shared together❤. You and he are so blessed to have all the memories you share and shared. God bless you 🙏 ❤❤
The reason why Sean Bean dies in almost every film he's in is because he's trying to balance the scales from all the times he cheated death in the "Sharpe" series.
Sharpe had the luck of the Irish with him.
@@CommanderStudios indeed he had sir.
God save Ireland and the Irish.
I use to love watching this programme as a kid with my mom. Made me very patriotic. 🏴 🇬🇧 🏴 ☘️
God save Ireland.
When my dad died, we played this at his funeral as he never stopped watching it, fucking love this song.
Mate, what a song to be played at funeral, sorry to hear about your loss, but I want this played at mine
good choice
It's not about obedience. It's about loyalty.
My sympathy. We did the same for my husband kia 2008
CHOSEN MAN.
four dislikes???
Hakeswill, Simmerson, Ducot and Lord Fenner are bitter boys........and clearly have no friends at Horse Guards!!
What I didn't like was when they changed how the novels where in the series, Harris in Sharpe's Waterloo novel doesn't appear in the novel but in the episode for unknown resins why did he appear he doesn't in the novel, and Hagman dies a different way instead of dying with Harris, he is wounded in the battle and dies of his wounds in Sharpe's Arms as I read Sharpe's Waterloo, the Chosen Men of course it would have been nice if Parry Jenkins featured in the series shame though, but I have plans to remake it in future,
And now Morris has joined them.
Its Major Duocos!
Farthingdale might be to blame here too
@@Crazyasianman286 And Bamfield, El Casco, Loup and Prince of Orange too now
One of the best series ever made.
I have been wanting to watch it for a while. Anywhere I can find it?
@@blackfalcon1324 It's on youtube at the top of the search results
@@blackfalcon1324 It's free on UA-cam.
@@blackfalcon1324amazon has them 2.99 usd an episode
Collecting the entire soundtrack in a single playlist? Now that's soldiering.
Panning across the soldiers' graves in the last episode until they come to the cross marked 'Daniel Deever, Pte.' Now that's Kipl-ing!
Remember watching this series in the 90s when I was a teenager - absolutely adored Sean Bean as Sharpe
Pete Postlethwaite could make you love him in one role and hate him with a vengeance in the next!! The sign of a true master of his craft,. Sadly missed.
A real actor ... unlike holywood
I agree.If someone's playing a villain,it's their job to make you hate them or at least dislike them intensely.I loathed Ed Harris so much in one particular role,I hated the sight of him in anything until his role in Apollo 13.
Yes indeed! See him in Brassed Off!
I’ve loved this series for a long time. Every now and then I watch the entire series. I always enjoyed the songs at the end. The saddest episodes were the ones where Perkins was killed, Teresa’s death, then when Harris and Hagman were killed. Those episodes always made me cry
I came looking for this song because I've just started the show, didn't think the first comment would be spoiler that would ruin the rest of the show for me, that was really stupid of me to go the te comment feed, I didn't think
@@stanfordwillis4841 sorry didn’t mean to spoil it for anyone but most of the people have seen the series so they weren’t upset that I mentioned anything. But even then, I mentioned small parts of the series but you still find out why and what happened. But no need to be snippy about it. I’m sure there are other plot lines that are mentioned.
@@writergirl3108 I'm mad at myself, it's not your fault !
I'm french so we didn't get this show when I was a kid, I wonder why xD
Please do not remind me; seeing those guys killed off was really sad... I avoid this part of the series. :)
I got to hold Sgt Harper’s six barrel gun at the ‘Military Oddyssey’ in Kent while having my photo taken with Sgt Harris from the series. He was a regular at the Kent military show!
Brilliant song. Makes you proud to be British.
Californian... but British still
@@kartondouglas5040 😬🤣
Proud of what?
Britain is a degenerate shithole these days.
WONDERFUL! I will love Sharpe and this song forever!
Played at my brothers funeral, 10 years an infantryman, God Bless Him
Indeed.My condolences,and my own wish as well that he rests in peace,and thanks to him for his service.
Chosen man.
Fellow American and been watching the series with my dad. Crazy we never heard of this in the states but it’s beyond a incredible story and happy to have stumbled across it to see some historical insight on British history and heroics
You never learned about Napoleon in America?
That’s crazy! Napoleon reshaped the world!
Welcome to the Brits!
@truckwarrior5944 I'll be honest, youtube taught me more of the napoleonic war than I learned in school. If its not the revolution, civil war, ww2 or Vietnam it's barely mentioned.
@@tanith117 That is sad, but that explains why Americans are infamous for beeing uneducated on the rest of the world.
if you love this you should look for Hornblower set sametimes
How can this not bring you to tears?
This has to be one of the nicest songs ever :) Sharpe has such a gorgeous soundtrack, nice video mate :)
RIP peter postlethwaite you were a fine actor
This was my grandads favourite song. We played it at his funeral. My grandad was a miner and died of enthasema, same as Pete postletwaite in brassed off.
Hope you are still well 10 years on.
He was a great actor RIP Peter Postlethwaite. Never Forgotten. Sharpie I'll get you.
Can’t kill me Sharpie
One off the very best.
I didn’t even know he died in 2011🥺🥺awe man! That’s sad! He was truly an amazing actor
Brave British men didn’t die in vain back then for our country to Rot today !!! Fight we must 🏴
Go to bed grandad
Good version, Sharpe is awesome!
"God Save The King!" "For King And Country!" "Huzzah!"
Real music. Something to be proud of. A feeling of being British.
Great series, watched it when I was a kid.
Still am 👍
The man so powerful he couldn't even by killed with Sean Bean playing him
One of the best series ever😀
Love the song and the series!!
Que buena serie Sharpe! Que buena cancion! Estoy aprendiendo ingles y trato de adaptar mi oido. Thank you very much!
Your English must be good by now!?
a great song to a great book/show. i use this songs lyrics to get me through some challenging parts of my life. i sung it over and over again when i testified against my boss. amazing how a song can do that. and to FearDivinty, you are the reason why europe hates us. i know i didnt tell him directly but, im in a good mood props to AndyFisher142
The best series ever made.
2023 just discovered this on Britbox. Best series
I'm glad that my father told me about this series
Damn you Simmerson for disliking this!
I don't know why I am listening to this in 2021. Perhaps I'm a fool. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic. Perhaps, but just perhaps, there is more. Much more. Perhaps just Perhaps, some things, just some things, are not limited by time of men. Perhaps I just like what I like? Or maybe, just mabe. Some things don't age. And time has no relevance to them. Because they are true in there own sense. Live free as men, or die as one. That is enough.
Even in 2021.
Time is inescapable. But humans, being mortal, need to believe in their self-illusions to forget that.
Tis the best version!
This old 2nd tankie likes this song .Sharpe a good quality series with good actors. Worth watching over again.
That part is great through ... When duty calls me I must go to stand and face another foe ... Over the hills and far away!
Such a good series.
love this
As a former professional soldier, I understand this song and this series too well. We go out in service of politicians, most of which are self-interested bullshit, but we hang in for our brothers in arms.
even Napoleon liked this song
well said man! Someone buy this man a beer!
Now that is soldiering!
love this song amzing
Read the entire Sharpe's series and saw all the videos. I wish they had the budget to start Sharpe's Rifles in India with an illiterate Private Sharpe in the infantry with Hakeswell as his Squad Leader then carried through from there and the Battle of Trafalgar when Sharps was on is way home. The Baker rifle exhibited was one of the best arms the British had at the time for accuracy but frowned upon by the "gentlemen officers" who commanded infantry companies as being too slow to reload. The Baker could reach out to around 200 yards where 100 yards for the smoothbore musket was a challenge at best. Also, the 95th Rifles later became and still are the Royal Green Jackets.
The royal green jackets went on to amalgamate with DERR amongst one or two other infantry regiments to form The Rifles in 2006.
They also probably frowned upon it because it could easily (relative to a smoothbore) pick off officers from a good distance.
Love this series God Bless Britain and the Empire
Britain is a degenerate shithole these days.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAYYY 🔥
I also would love to remake the Sharpe Series this song will do well for the remake, even to get the books correct that is, and the story correct, even the John Tams character whom plays Daniel Hagman's death at Waterloo, in the episode he dies alongside Harris but in the novel Harris is absent from Waterloo instead of Harris and Hagman dying together Hagman dies in the Battle of Waterloo but mortally wounded dying in Sharpe's arms, I only wish in the series that Parry Jenkins could have been perfect, shame though,
The idea is that each TV episode is diferent from it's book counter point. Both versions are excellent. But this way you can enjoy them both and they are different enough that you won't be bored. And ideally.....purchase both! :)
Crikey, he was made to play Sharpe. 🌹
When I die, want to come back as a chosen man. It may be brief, but what a life .... :-D
March on 95th, march on!!!
Sharpe, a nicely done series not quite the same as the books but decently done never the less. A shame there could have been more Sharpe's episodes made.
Lol I'm just drunk as fuck in my driveway listening this on a backpack speaker
One of the few things to make me feel truly patriotic
certainly makes me feel English listening to this should be played for the 11th
Does anyone know the history of this song? I heard it in the series Sharpe and love the song, I showed a few friends and they asked about it but I know not
he must of liked the people and see the way forward , hard times and true
Best actor John tams best brown paper and paraffin
I'd love to hear that too!
This be Good still 👌
The only lads, real or fictional, that I'd want to charge into battle alongside. Chosen men!
so true
I dunno, while I love Sharpe, I gotta say Cornwell's really refined his style in his new Saxon books with Uhtred and them.
Fair is fair, I mean, you'd hope he'd only get better after 30-40 books.
Sharpe, of course, will always have the superior sound track.
Twelve years later, how do you feel about the Last Kingdom show adaptation that recently finished its final season compared to Sharpe?
@@HaydenHero Saxon tales is the better book series, but Sharpe is the better TV series by far. A lot of that is due to Sean Bean.
I ve noticed in the full three series of Cornwall books he dosent like horses. You think he was bitten as one as a child
95th rifles sir!!
HIS 4O SHILLINGS!!
Dumfries is in Scotland.
CHOSEN MEN.
A Rule Britannia to British Army Major Richard Sharpe of the South Essex Regiment.
You couldn't do the rest of the CD as well, could you?
King George commands and we obey... it's the British in me
Make that two beers !
Probably the most realistic portrayal of the napolion war youll see
What? You think "spitloading" and other nonsense is realistic?
@Ein_Kunde_ spit loading never happened it's dangerous and stupid, but there's a reason there were 16 episodes. If it were that bad, it would have been dropped was based off books, and that's the other thing " BOOKS" an account of things that happened during that time, and I wonder how much of that was exaggerated?
ROYAL GREEN JACKETS HERES TO THE 9TH RIFLES
95TH*
god bless the 95th rifles gr8 job
Grovey baby
This is very Irish, song, No Problem with me I have Scottish Name, USA bin there got tha T Shirt over 40ty years ago.
That's Hagman singing.
@15niall
It's understandable to be angry. It's all good.
@Redheadfury actually it's to do with herbs and cabbages to be accurate.
I thought the 95th rifles participate in the war of 1812 here in the United States? Or was that another regiment that coincidentally shared the same number?
Rings a bell... 95th Something Elses?
uh? what do u mean u were just trolling, u were just saying to everybody that has responded to ur comments about harper being welsh.
Let me tell you a little secret: The yearly expenses for medical purposes and treatment of the Sackscobourgotta are very serious. What if suddenly those antiincest medicines disappear? How much life you give them? I give them a week in the present state of the antiincest virus!
I agree, though...I did reply to those messages you speak of...if only to drag the OP's intellect into question.
Y'know we're actually about the same size as France don't you? Plus while I'm glad we have a history of success as a nation, there are certainly few of us alive today that can claim to have taken part in any of them. I do think we're often painted unfairly as villains and that we have a right to defend our nation's history, but the days of empire are over (perhaps for the better) and to take pride in the achievements of others is a little unworthy.
I youtubed Sharpe here. Why are yee aplying modern WW1 and WW2 wars and idealogies to the Napoleonic wars???This is a completely different era. Sharpe is a brilliant representation of what happened here in Europe, during that period. Yee are talking about Germany and Russia - this has nothing to do with Sharpe, why can't yiz stick to the feckin' plot? Lets praise Sharpe here...
That's a rather narrow perspective. It's a little like saying that if you're right wing you're essentially Mosley. I'd also have to say that Orwell's idea of the left wing included some rather extreme examples of nationalism suggesting a bias toward clubbing all left wing politics into the Stalinist model which only masquerades as left wing.
How sad that people drag in WW1, WW2 etc etc blah blah into a song that was for a TV series set in Napoleonic europe...
Sharpe was a great series set on some good novels that was historical fiction nothing more nothing less based around some historical factual moments its not meant to be fact but good escapism.
Padraig
Why is a video about a Napoleonic song have a debate in World War II in the comments?
Some passing regret it wasn't revived for 'the Big One' is my guess.
Something like 'Battle Of The Somme' didn't get words until after WW2.
to be fair thats not true, it was an ideological objection to European imperial wars and a fear of splitting the population of many different nationalities that the americans refused to join in ww1, and when they did get involved, it was probably wrong to do so
@vostronas Not to be offensive, but the British never "handed" their development over to the U.S. At the time the nuclear weapon was such a terrorizing idea, that no country would've trusted another with the development of it. Of course, some british scientists were recruited into the Manhattan Project, but no information of importance was handed over to the U.S. That being said, I can't rightly say if the UK would've been able to win the war on their own, I'm not that strong in WWII History.
Actually it did, but I was just wondering if you'd bothered to read anything I'd posted.
Please re-read it (if you bothered before I suggested you were a fascist). I think you'll find that I never put England down (although you did refer to me as British which I found quite offensive considering your following arguements).
@73steve905 Don't forget Canada
i wouldnt call them new
White hand ...
I'd rather actually do something myself than claim accolades for others deeds and I don't loathe myself due to what someone else did either.
to be fair, if you look at a history book on the eastern front the russians were engaging the vast bulk of the german forces who were both better equipped and trained as well as with larger numbers than the german forces serving on the western front, by d day the soviets were already pretty much certain to defeat Germany, and there would still probably be some kind of allied invasion in the west with the canadians and british given the weakness of Germany when the russians were beating them
Pete postlthwate
What ??? Ain't a bad movie ....it's about colonial affairs , but the story of Sharp coming out of the ranks foot soldier reminds me of someone ....
@SASJames92 Yeah, I was being sarcastic...I caught it. : )
White hand or the whole story about Mary of Belgium and her abortion may receive the true story ....
Ned stark !!!
The good old English army. Fought everyone and won. Apart from some European countries the rest of the world has done bugger except moan