WHEN THIS LOUSY WAR IS OVER performed by CATHERINE PAVER
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Song from the trenches of World War One. The tune is 'What A Friend We Have In Jesus'. Soldiers changed the words to express their true feelings about the war. It was used in the amazing 'Oh! What A Lovely War!' I perform it here with a simple piano arrangement.
"No one alive will ever see the end of War." - Plato.
Or "Only the dead sees the end of war"
What a beautiful voice to a lovely song
Its a pity the song wasnt sung in full in ' oh what a lovely war', that blokes voice was amazing. that said, this wasnt bad
The tenor was Maurice Arthur a soloist with Glyndebourne opera company and very fine singer
Beautiful voice.
Perhaps thanks to the simple piano arrangement, the sardonic wit and humour of the lyrics are now tinged with real sadness, as if the soldiers know deep down they'll never come home.
This song sums up the great sadness and pity and the kowledge that the 'cannon fodder' (the men) can not escape their deaths.
what a surprise, and a very welcome one at that, well done lass.
We are doing a play about this and I started to cry
Amen! But will it ever be over ... ? Thanks for your beautiful rendition.
Thank youfor this rendition. Quite beautiful. I saw tSa film when i was a teenager, and far too shallow and unworldly to know or understand it's message. Now, I may claim to have an inkling of it's message. Thank you.
Lovely Catherine. Happy Christmas and visit the Hare and Hounds soon!
Fantastic.
Fantastic
Lovely voice lovely song.
Does it work with guitar?
Tom S
Tom Seery Yes it does - try Rab Noake's version, it's fucking haunting
yes. Just play arpeggio accompaniment :-)
The tenor was Maurice Arthur a soloist with Glyndebourne opera company and very fine singer
i want to play it on the violin
I would love to know who wrote these lyrics.
anyone know who the guy was who sang it in the film.
pbrobots pbrobots In case you are still wondering. IMDB credits a certain Maurice Arthur as "soldier singing at Chaplain's Address."
The tenor was Maurice Arthur a soloist with Glyndebourne opera company and very fine singer
when this BLOODY war is over
I'm with you on that the lyrics are when this bloody war is over for a very good. It doesn't have to be changed to make it a pretty song. It's meant to be aggressive, after all these lions were being led to their deaths by donkeys!
I didn't know about Rab Noakes' version, 'When This Bloody War Is Over'. Your post helped me discover it. In this recording I'm singing the lyrics which I knew, which were the ones the soldiers in WW1 wrote. I guess 'Lousy' fits their experiences because it was a lousy war: lice in the trenches gave them horrible bites and trench fever.
@@Paversongs I love your version, and vastly prefer it; but there are multiple renditions of the song (and even back when it was written there were variations on the lyrics) so anyone claiming you got them wrong is themselves mistaken on this song's origin. Anyway, thank you for the wonderful rendition!
@@AtheAethelingThank you very much for this, Marlborough Miniatures! Much appreciated and I'm really glad you like my version. It's such a moving song. I agree with you, and in fact it's one of the joys of songs that they change with the singers. They truly have a life of their own. All the best, Paversongs
Been looking into the songs of WW1, It appears that Lousy is WW1 it was change to Bloody in WW2
Sounds silly sung in a female voice. Sorry.
But well song 🎵 👌