If You Were The Only Girl In The World Sung By Henry Burr

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  • Опубліковано 12 гру 2024

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  • @catherinebosley7539
    @catherinebosley7539 3 місяці тому +11

    My Husband,who has recently died,was in a care home,I visited him every day and sang this to him,his eyes would smile at me and I would cry.

  • @onthe165
    @onthe165 7 років тому +148

    downton abbey introduced me to this song & i've loved it ever since. it's so beautiful!

    • @jeffreykaufmann2867
      @jeffreykaufmann2867 6 років тому +8

      daile alexander but the downtown Abbey version is so much better and the only one I like.Its my favorite scene in the movie

    • @misshari1964
      @misshari1964 5 років тому +2

      Phil Burr here: Sure gotta agree with ya - Loved "Downton Abbey"!

    • @immanuelferrer3607
      @immanuelferrer3607 3 роки тому +1

      I agree. How much more the beauty to have someone to truly share it with.

  • @marywolters3612
    @marywolters3612 Рік тому +8

    My father sang this all the time, but I never heard the verse, only the chorus. I love it.

  • @madeinmacau97
    @madeinmacau97 12 років тому +47

    My grandfather a Canadian Second World War vet, would sing this tune in the car, on Sunday drives. Good memories

  • @howardwayne3974
    @howardwayne3974 4 роки тому +54

    Wasn't in ww1, not in a trench , but I was an 18 year old in Vietnam in a fighting hole enduring a north Vietnamese 122mm rocket attack . I wish I had heard this song . it would have been a great comfort .

  • @Billy219
    @Billy219 10 років тому +34

    Henry Burr is a big favorite of me. He sang verybeautifully and had a so great singing style. I wish more peoples will be fan of him. This song is very beautiful and still very great today.😄👍

    • @rootedtogrowwny
      @rootedtogrowwny 7 років тому +2

      Was he Irish? He has a bit of a lilt.

    • @bernardbrenner6088
      @bernardbrenner6088 3 роки тому +1

      @@rootedtogrowwny Yes. His birth name was Harry McClaskey.

  • @vickifriend9285
    @vickifriend9285 6 років тому +9

    I love this song but I really enjoy the version by Donald Peers. The lyrics are so beautiful, it always reminds me of my Grandma Sarah who used to sing all the old songs to me

  • @HarborGuy
    @HarborGuy 12 років тому +12

    Sung for the wounded of WWl on Downton Abbey on PBS as a duet......very touching.

  • @Gina3725
    @Gina3725 13 років тому +6

    I heard this song tonight on Downton Abbey too. I love this recording of this song because it sounds like World War I which is the storyline of the show right now.

  • @Kblog777
    @Kblog777 11 років тому +15

    Great pain produces great art they say, and much great art came out of the Great War.

  • @haroldgillies3083
    @haroldgillies3083 6 років тому +19

    Sometimes when I feel bad
    and things look blue
    I wish a girl I had... say one like you.
    Someone within my heart to build her throne
    Someone who'd never part, to call my own
    If you were the only girl in the world
    and I were the only boy
    Nothing else would matter in the world today
    We could go on loving in the same old way
    A garden of Eden just made for two
    With nothing to mar our joy
    I would say such wonderful things to you
    There would be such wonderful things to do
    If you were the only girl in the world
    and I were the only boy.
    No-one I'll ever care for dear... but you.
    No-one I'll fancy, therefore love me do.
    Your eyes have set me dreaming all night long…
    Your eyes have set me scheming, right or wrong
    If you were the only girl in the world
    and I were the only boy
    Nothing else would matter in the world today
    We could go on loving in the same old way
    A garden of Eden just made for two
    With nothing to mar our joy
    I would say such wonderful things to you
    There would be such wonderful things to do
    If you were the only girl in the world
    and I were the only boy.

  • @SuperRosie123
    @SuperRosie123 12 років тому +3

    I am 57 and my grandmother taught me this song. I love the old songs. I think Harry Secombe sang this.

  • @TheMarry40
    @TheMarry40 5 років тому +4

    My Dad used to play this on our piano when I was a young girl. He died aged 53 in 1990.Always loved hearing this.

  • @Theseus9-cl7ol
    @Theseus9-cl7ol 8 років тому +71

    Could you imagine being 19 years old, sitting in a dank dark trench with death around you, listening to this tune in the trenches?

    • @zupan1758
      @zupan1758 7 років тому +16

      Seriously, that's one of my biggest dreams. Today I'm sitting in front of computer and I do absolutely nothing - next generations will forget me forever... and ww1 soldiers? They were dying in the name of their countries. And we won't forget them. God, please - if I can't go to heaven, send me to Verdun or Somme. I will do my best...

    • @rootedtogrowwny
      @rootedtogrowwny 7 років тому +25

      Back then 19 year olds were extremely mature in comparison to 19 year olds of today. Blame liberals.

    • @markwalshopoulos
      @markwalshopoulos 5 років тому +1

      @@rootedtogrowwny extremely vacuous statement

    • @briquetaverne
      @briquetaverne 4 роки тому +4

      @@zupan1758 I'm in France in Amiens, the seat of Picardie right now... Before you wish Hell upon yourself, spring for a couple of weeks of touring along the hundreds of thousands of graves all throughout this Provice (which is now called Haute de France) then go see the WWI museum in Peronne France.

    • @zupan1758
      @zupan1758 4 роки тому +1

      @@briquetaverne I went to France two years ago, just to see Verdun, Argonne, Vauquois and other WW1-related cities around. I know what I wish for - though I know it is absolutely impossible and I will never be able to understand what Hell is. But if I were told to replace an innocent soldier and die for him in the trenches, I think I could do it. And I don't say this to be, idk, thought of as a hero, I just think that I could do that, moreover, this is just a dream of mine.

  • @davidodonnell1807
    @davidodonnell1807 3 роки тому +2

    My grandfather God rest his soul used to sing this song.

  • @ninjakazekageniinvestmnl56
    @ninjakazekageniinvestmnl56 7 років тому +21

    I was born a century maybe after this was created, but I could imagine myself being at that time. It's an incredible feeling.

  • @malibu64
    @malibu64 13 років тому +4

    This is a treasure. Thank you for posting.

  • @aamirk345
    @aamirk345 Рік тому +1

    Bridge on the River Kwai introduced me to this song :) David Lean's finest direction

  • @thefinalhorseman
    @thefinalhorseman 11 років тому +9

    Heres to you for goin over the top with courage great granpop.

  • @EuSeiT
    @EuSeiT 5 років тому +4

    Absolutely lovely.

  • @ritabrita
    @ritabrita 12 років тому +2

    loved the pictures!!

  • @dennishillback1259
    @dennishillback1259 7 років тому +1

    Brings such wonderful memories back Thanks to U Tube all can still enjoy .DH.

  • @cliffford
    @cliffford 7 років тому +3

    Wonderful pictures !

    • @Aslanreturn
      @Aslanreturn 6 років тому +1

      cliffford Yes, aren't they?

  • @billbickley5798
    @billbickley5798 5 років тому +1

    Beautiful to me..........................

  • @mikeoxmaul45
    @mikeoxmaul45 3 роки тому +7

    The WWI "We'll Meet Again"

  • @lexiadams2570
    @lexiadams2570 8 років тому +4

    This song is AWESOME 😊😊😊

  • @luvmyrecords
    @luvmyrecords 7 років тому +4

    This song was published and is always performed as a waltz; this recording is unusual. It's also very beautiful - as Henry Burr's records always are. Thanks for the eye-opener.

  • @williambug8117
    @williambug8117 4 роки тому +3

    I love the old photos.Men who never returned.

  • @azillliasmith2734
    @azillliasmith2734 Рік тому +1

    Bless our boys then and now ❤and the non humans animal who didn't understand but died for us nevertheless..

  • @queenaelfdriel2775
    @queenaelfdriel2775 10 років тому +1

    So sweet!!!!!

  • @dick12235
    @dick12235 10 років тому +1

    Thanks.

  • @alisabury1316
    @alisabury1316 8 років тому +3

    this song bangs

  • @MoroccanRose
    @MoroccanRose 2 роки тому +1

    I see there's a lot of people that know this song from Downton Abbey, anyone here like me who knows it from Charmed?

  • @johndevine174
    @johndevine174 6 років тому +7

    Right...who were the seventeen cretins who downthumbed this wonderful song...?

  • @georgedabrowski6900
    @georgedabrowski6900 Рік тому

    The question is, did Burr record this also as a waltz? The effect is stunning and highly emotionally wrenching on Downton Abbey, most notably when the strings cut in when Mary stops singing... This should never be done in 4/4, as it doesn't work: too bad they probably requested H.B. to sing it this way. Tch. There is also a 20's dance record (waltz) with Scrappy Lambert doing the vocal, very nice indeed. 🐸

  • @MultiPtarmigan
    @MultiPtarmigan 11 років тому +8

    Good sound quality for a hundred-year-old recording!

    • @martincook318
      @martincook318 3 роки тому +2

      Probably because the Recording was issued by His Master's Voice and they usto supply the British Royal family

  • @Kanangnut
    @Kanangnut 13 років тому +2

    My favourite version of this song. Can you please tell me where I can find it? I couldn't find this version on iTunes :(

  • @DanielleSheppard
    @DanielleSheppard 3 роки тому +1

    Same song Mary and Matthew sing in Downton Abbey

  • @Franeux
    @Franeux 10 років тому +3

    ***** I'll try, a love to teach, dear, fond and true
    I sigh, a world to reach, dear, just made for me and you

  • @DJxOCEANx
    @DJxOCEANx 13 років тому +1

    @Sk8erPunk8 its a love song... about a guy and a girl... its not about war

  • @euphoric1183
    @euphoric1183 6 років тому +4

    because of some imperialist people millions of loves relationships marriages were cut short the husbands that their wifes the loves that their huns waited never never come back the world and history will never forget...

  • @Treva789
    @Treva789 13 років тому +1

    @sillyg800 I just heard this tonihgt on Downton Abbey I love your story

  • @just4music687
    @just4music687 3 роки тому +2

    The original Upstairs Downstairs, 1970's tv series, the writing and acting of which puts Downton Abbey to shame, brought me here. WWI era England is portrayed so meaningfully and poignantly in Upstairs Downstairs, the original from the 1970's. I like Downton Abbey as well, lavish production, but it truly pales in comparison and was lifted almost whole cloth from this original tv series of the 1970's. Season 4, episode 7 is titled after this romantic song.

  • @emilysweety
    @emilysweety 12 років тому +7

    wow. what happened to the music industry??

  • @paulinegail20
    @paulinegail20 12 років тому +8

    Downton Abbey brought me here.

  • @atteheikkinen
    @atteheikkinen 13 років тому

    @Sk8erPunk8 neither? totally unrelated in my opinion.

  • @fredmatthew2970
    @fredmatthew2970 5 років тому

    Birdsong (pp144) brought me here...

  • @paulfitzpatrick2688
    @paulfitzpatrick2688 6 років тому +1

    Sad

  • @v.i.4230
    @v.i.4230 11 років тому

    Have you ever heard of Google?

  • @frazlesc6937
    @frazlesc6937 6 років тому

    Rrianna modernized this song