Dropkick Murphys - "The Green Fields Of France" (Full Album Stream)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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"The Green Field Of France" by Dropkick Murphys from the album 'The Warrior's Code,' available now
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"It all happened again and again and again and again and again"
To me, that is the saddest part of the song. WWI wasn't the end of all wars as so many had hopped, it was the catalyst for the worst crime in human history and and an endless series of wars.
To me whole part their is the sad climax of the song:
"and i can't help but wonder oh willy mcbride
do all those who lie here know why they died
did you really believe them when they told you the cause
did you really believe that this war would end wars
well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
the killing and dying it was all done in vain
oh willy mcbride it all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again"
The saddest part is the manipulation of people thinking they are heroes, but their lifes get reduced to be a tools for violence and destruction. The last part is just the cherry on top. We DIDNT CHANGE.
@@nostalji75 all wars are banker wars. No more blood will be spilled for international rootless bankers. This time the whole world is coming for them and there is nothing these weak cowardly bankers are going to do about it. They will die a death by a thousand cuts again and again and again and again and again.
It WILL CONTINUE
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
This is without question one of the most emotional songs I've ever heard. It doesn't matter who does the cover. It's always so moving.
This and redgum, I was only 19. Very emotional songs
@@liamjenkins82 I had never heard of that one before. Thanks for the recommendation. Long live the memory of the Anzacs!
It truly is one of my favorite songs to play live
The rédemption song by the Shieftains. I'm french sorry for my english.
It never fails to bring tears to my eyes
Every single year on Memorial Day, I make it a point to listen to this song.
Same here.
I am French and above all, I am Picard, a Picard who lives in the Somme.
France celebrates Verdun but here we celebrate the Battle of the Somme. We are proud of you and even though I believe that all of this was for nothing, we thank you anyway.
Today the roadsides are full of poppies, my daughter cut herself on a schrapnell (a severed tendon in the middle finger) and a farmer killed himself with a grenade ... The First World War continues to take its toll.
Do you also command a starship? ☺️
We appreciate you looking after our boys. Your dedication to our dead is humbling. I salute you!
My grandmother used to cook with three fingers stirring the pot.. She found a grenade as a child in the field at our family's farm outside of Paris.. Always appreciated her struggle and what she went thru.
Salut! Are there any French songs from WW1?
Thank you, my Grandfather was the last living WW1 veteran in my town
Ive been singing this song to myself for 10 years and i still cant sing this song without getting at least a little teary eyed.
Every time, without fail.
it's teary eye, the whole damn song
but when reaches
"it all happened again
And again, and again, and again,"
I lose every time
As a former soldier who lost 6 brothers to Afghanistan, this song means more to me than most will ever understand.
killing Russian commie leftovers from the 80's, сука блять
Hoo-ah brother!
@@daithio.7378 don't try to fuck with people in their back yard is Afghanistan. You most have never been there?
I thank you very much for your service. I only wish I could be as strong a man as that someday.
Jared Hays Wait your saying 7 brothers joined the army from one family ??? Well I'm not buying that , my 6 brothers died fuck off you gobshite what do you think we are , I lost 10 brothers that's more than you haha.
Can’t believe how emotional this song is..
It’s not only the fate of “Willie McBride” and the unspeakable tragedy that was WW1 but also the fact that WW1 basically was the start of one long conflict that didn’t end until the fall of the Berlin Wall..
And the fact that new conflicts emerge “again and again and again”.. beyond “the Green Fields of France”.
A masterpiece🙏
This St. Patrick's Day, I spent the day I listened to nothing but Irish Rebel Songs, and today, I adapted the lyrics of this haunting song in honor of my Brother in Battle - Sunny - who died in my arms on Flag Day 1968. It is called The Green Fields of Arlington.
larryconley1943.....this is a scottish sang.
Peace be with you Larry
I'm the son of a military historian and former sailor! My great-grandfather on my dad's side fought on the Allied side at Vimy Ridge and my paternal grandfather was a peacekeeper in Korea and Congo. My father was in the Royal Canadian Navy when the Persian Gulf War broke out and he survived the war! I have a cousin who is in the U.S. Navy!
I recently lost my beloved dog Rocky to old age and natural causes, he left us peacefully, surrounded by love and his favorite people and his toys, and the last thing he heard was me telling him "I'm so proud of you, I love you" and this song was playing as he crossed the Rainbow Bridge. I didn't pick the song, his vet did, she's that good, and that meant the world to me. I can't not cry when I hear this song, I can see my Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rocky up there playing with those boys we lost, and all the other pets we miss so much, but I know he's waiting for me.
man you're making me tear up thinking about my dog Chief that we had to put down two summers ago.
I feel like my dog is my only son and you just got me all tore up reading this my condolences to your best friend 🙏
I adore this song. Brigs tears to my eyes.
Every time
Me 2 I don't know y
Every time for sure.
"it all happened again
And again, and again, and again"
I used to hate this as a kid, I was associating it with drunken parties, now I understand why my mum & dad loved it so much.
Never forget your roots
It's music for the people
Yeah, my dad used to sing this all the time when I was a kid. I didn’t get it. Now I’m sitting here balling after a few beers. Lmao.
Well, they do have quite a few songs for drunken parties
What a slow kid
RIP Andrew Larsen, Jan 26, 1984 - Jan 7, 2024
This song gives me chills every time I hear it. I've lost friends on and off the battlefield, and this song resonates so damn hard.
roger that
My father fought in WW2 though he would never talk about it. This song gives me chills.
This song connects to me so deep. My great great uncles all fought in WW2. Jack was a 101st Airborne, the rest were marines. My great grandfather, who was from Germany, was in the U.S Navy, fighting against his uncle, who was an SS officer. This song connects to all the wars, no matter which side. At the end of the day, there are no bad guys at war, there are the ones who follow orders and the ones who give orders. Us peasantry will never command our troops, the greedy rich will forever send our children to get slaughtered.
Leaking Blood It's always the Irish who bring these amazing songs to us, listen to the fureys sing it on UA-cam they sing it properly.my great uncles died also in ww2 4 of them and not one came back , killed on the border of India and they were Irish ☘👍.
@@daithio.7378 Well, if you will excuse the pedantry, Eric Bugle--the writer of the song--was an Aussie of Scotts extraction so maybe it isn't just the Irish who can turn out a corking lament.
Christopher Storz oh I knew there would be an Scotts connection to this song with the name 'willie MCBride, I was just saying the Fureys brothers sing it great, there's also another great song with MCbride in the lyrics, but the people who I asked didn't know who wrote it, Paul Brady sings it good, the words ' my trusty shillelagh' are in the song so the song has to be Irish, can't think of the song but I'll have a look and name it, thanks.
Christopher Storz Arthur MCBride is the name of the the song and Paul Brady sings it good, he said he found the song in an old Irish song book while in America but I would take that with a pinch of salt, all the best ☘✨.
"War does not determine who is right. Only who is left"
The song pipes of peace about the Christmas truce between British and German Soldiers also tells a moving story about that era and how most Soldiers on both sides have more in common than they realize no matter what side they fight for. Being homesick is one of those things. I still rember the Christmas of 2003 when my Mom told my adopted Dad and that the three of house should be thankful to eat Christmas dinner together since so many other people could couldn't be with thier families that year. A MASH episode in which a homesick Rader watches a home movie from the States and says goodbye to his Mom still sticks with me to this very day because my Grandmon Thomas watched it with us and felt empathy for Rader. She really feeling empathy for all of the homesick Ametican Soldiers she knew of from WW1 to Vietnam.
Ps sorry I misspelled the word American. Any I hope you got my point. As I said in another of my comments my Grandmom Thomas on my Mom 's side of the family my have not rembered much about WW 1 or the so called Great War as it's also called since she was born towards the end of that conflict however she rembered WW2, the undeclared wars in Korea and Vietnam. So when she felt empathy for Rader she was actully feeling empathy for all of the home sick GIs who were overseas for those conflicts and missed thier loved ones. And hearing songs like the Green Fields of France and I'll be home for Christmas reminds me of the sacrifices our men and women in uniform have made for our country and makes me sad at the same time when I am reminded of all of the U.S. Service men and women we lost in Afgahanistan and Iraq during the first half of this century which brought the world Covid, Putin's invasion of the Ukraine and strife and turmoil in our own country. As one of my cousins said earlier today all we can do is pray.
William McBride, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers,
KIA 22nd April 1916 LWF
Do we know what rank he was?
@@barbaramahoney2135 yeah he was was a private. He was in the same battalion as my greatx2 grandfather.
@@harrybutler4079 thank you.
I come from a military family, in the First World War we had 8 family members serve, four of them were brothers,
Andrew(survived Gallipoli and France)
George (killed passchendaele)
James(killed hill 60)
Robert(killed Gallipoli)
Andrew was the only one to return. God save them. We will remember them.
In WW2 my grandpa's uncle harry was at pearl harbor when it was attacked. Harry went on to fight on D-Day alongside his brother James which was my great-grandpa. Harry went on to storm Hitlers mountain retreat, James got out of the army after the war was over. Harry stayed in and fought in Korea And Vietnam.
Idk if you know of the band Sabaton but they cover events in military history to make sure the stories/events are not forgotten(with power metal)
Their Great war album is full of stories and battles from WWI
(I dont think Gallipoli is in there though its off running around on its own)
mine were on the other side, one was a pilot in WW1, shot down over france, survived that and died before WW2 started when he had an accident at flight training, the second one survived as an officer at the western front in france. Also survived WW2, but many others from my family didn't.
War is always bad and should never be glorified.
Four Anzac Brothers
@@BohemianCloud35 one of there earlier albums had a song about Gallipoli (cliffs of Gallipoli) and Passendale (Price of a Mile)
i can’t listen to this song without shedding tears
Same here. *Passes the tissues.*
Same
Listening at the end of a week of touring the western front, such a moving experience dedicated to my great uncle Thomas Reuben Bull killed 28th June 1917 aged 23 Leicesters
We Will Remember Them
this shit gets me every time. the last verse.
This song by this band speaks to me! I hear it and I have to sing along. I can feel the emotion and picture the story told, and it moves my soul like the ocean.
Thank you for your serve to all the men and women Who are in the army navy Air Force Marines and coast Guard god bless you 🇺🇸
Maybe someday , years and years from now, I will be able to listen to this song without being moved to tears.
But I doubt it.
Today is Nov.11th @ 11:36am and we've had this on repeat here at work since 11:11am.
My Great Uncle fought in WWII and was shot down over the Netherlands. This song makes me think of him and brings a tear to my eye.
Heard this song sang so many ways but Al Barr nailed it what a voice for any music!
Dropkick Murphys
For this song - Genius - One of the GREAT songs of the last 12 Decades. well Done Boyos!🏅BloodRed.🍒
This is irish music for irish people but the rest of the world can listen to music that means something god bless ireland
that's the thing about music, the lyrics may be in english or french, or whatever it may be
but the song speaks the universal language of the human spirit
I never had the Honor of Serving in the Marine Corps. I couldn't hide my heart condition. It didn't work....I think of it every day. I remember being a child on 9/11. Feeling the burn of anger and the sting of tears as we watched the news and watched in disbelief. I'll never forget. And I'll never forget being turned down to Serve. Thank you for All who Have. Current, Past, and Future. Semper Fi.
This song also reminds of something one of my Pastors at G.U.M.C. named Tom Derough said(I apologize ahead of time if I misspelled your last name Tom) He said during the two World Wars both American and German Soldiers who belt buckles saying God was on thier side. He said he would like to think God wasn't on anyone's side expect the mothers who lost sons, the wives who lost husbands and children. Who lost fathers weather they fought for the allies or Germany.
Get one last good laugh, hire someone to sing this at your funeral everyone would cry like babies lol
Cody T ha that genius 😂
@@dylanmurphy5309 look at the other replies
And yet it's still happening today and tomorrow 😓
I noticed that I'm not the only one who has a visceral reaction every time this song plays.
Look at the replay bar. It shows that ppl hear it completley over and over
I’ve listened to this song for at least fifty years but I just found this version. I love it.
I've been thinking what song would legitimately play at my funeral, and I discovered this song... Now I have to write it down. It's... emotional.
You fought in a war? Thank you for your service. I always wanted the song "black hole sun" played at my funeral
@@human_bot_ i never did and am not physically in shape. I just like how sad it sounds and I've always liked the folk instruments. I guess I shouldn't pick this if it's more related to war.
@@human_bot_ black hole sun’s good but if we going Cornell, Like A Stone is getting played at mine
Which is even worse?
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
For me, this one is worse:
"The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willy McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again"
@@karolap1283 That line always makes me choke while singing this song.
I'd love to sing this somewhere for people to hear and remember, but I can never get through it with a steady voice.
same
how do they do it???
For my great uncle Eddie. 987th Feild Artillery battalion. Purple heart and Bronze star recipient. Normandy, Battle of the buldge. Finished his tour In Austria meeting the Russians
My Great uncle Willie fell in the Ainse-Marne offensive. August 5th 1918.
I'm a Vietnam vet and a singer - unable to sing this without losing my composure - as do many other songs.
On loop 🔁
🛡🪖🛡🪖 🪶 🖤
Every single year.. and this one is no different. This is the ONLY song that makes me cry. I wish the world wasn’t this way, but it will continue to be so until that hopeful day it isn’t.
Sgt. Chris Crum and Spc. Thomas “Joker” Lutz, you will truly always be revered and forever remembered fondly, brothers.
PATRIOT Missile Operator
2001-2005
Iraq - April 2003
yes... Your ears have been baptized
its amazing songs, everytime i'm listening..
... it all happened again, and again, and again
get's me every single time
I served in the USMC. Miss all my fallen comrades.
Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun?
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean
Oh, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in 1916, to that loyal heart, you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plough
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here, in this graveyard, it's still no-man's-land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
And I can't help but wonder, now Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying, it was all done in vain
Oh, Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Saw this band at the old Expo 86 site in Vancouver, it was good friendly but hard hitting mosh pit.
Rest in peace my extended family who fought for the Fatherland in the great war.
Wilhelm Friedrich born December 11, 1880. Kill in action on the 26 of Aug. 1917
Friedrich born September 5, 1884. Kill in action on July 28 1918 in France.
Johann Gottfried born August 6, 1886. Went missing in action on the 30 of August 1914.
All three brothers never to return back home
-Love from your American cousin.
WW1 was known as 'The War to end all Wars'.... if only, huh? Well Willy McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again ! 🥀
I remember listening to this when NUFC got relegated, it means nothing, but I love this song no matter what, rest in peace all those who have fallen.
2,738 died on the last day of WW1 because some pompous politicians delayed the armistice 6 hours so the war can end at 11 o'clock, including a soldier who died 60 seconds before the war ended because he charged at a German encampment so he can get some last minute glory.
and to be honest, history invites us to infer that the ones that survived WWI
lived only envy the ones who died
Soldiers we love thanks
Beautifully sung .
This is a sad song to begin with but it's even sader to listen to know when I am reminded of all of my fellow Americans who were probably only 19 when they died places my places like Beirut Lebanon, Grenada, Panama , Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq. I only mention these place because I am old enough to rember those wars. Of course the deaths of Americans and people of several other different nationalities who died in the two World Wars and Cold War conflicts are equally tragic. Ireland saw a lot of tragedy from 1914-1923. Irishmen fought and died in the Trenches of France and Belguim. There were also conflicts on thier own soil like the 1916 Easter. Rebellion, Guerilla campaigns fought from.1916-1921 the Irish Civil War fought from 1922-23 between the IRA and Free Staters. Sorry to bore you with the history lesson however with a group named Drop Kick Murphys singing this song it's for me not to think of Ireland and the ordeals she faced over the centuries. Shout out the late King Brian Boru who died leading the. Defense of his country against Viking Invaders in 1014 AD if there isn't a song for him yet there should be.
It was written by a scot, named Eric Bogle
Thank you for the history lesson, although im English my family are Irish it’s good to know what my nan would have been growing up around and my nan’s father would have seen firsthand
so powerful
RIP Sean Rooney 2022 🇮🇪❤
Im listening to this in 2022 hoping we're not on the brink of the next worse war in history. Apparently no amount of blood can be spilled that will keep us from doing this again.
Powerful stuff, yet somehow calming and reassuring
This is an angry rendition. Thank you.
Ps I heard the Irish born entertainer Ken McBride sing this song a while back. It was very emotional then but after my Uncle Phil passed away in 2010 the verses about the pipes and drums make choke up because they did play the pipes and drums at his funeral. He died of an infection not in battle. However he survived at last one tour of duty in South Korea during the late 1960s. Since the fighting along the DMZ continued long after the 1953 Truce being in South Korea then was as being in Vietnam. My cousin Andrew who of course is also his son and I were always proud of his service.
Was Willie McBride a WWI ancestor of Irish born entertainer Ken McBride ?
@@stevekelley7738 willie macbride was a name he used to rhyme with graveside. this sang was written by a scotsman eric bogle out of respect for all the soldiers in a cemetery he was visiting in belgium. the names scottish and the pipes lament fleurs o the forest mentioned in the chorus is also scottish. despite what everybody states tho....it is not about one individual soldier.
@@brucecollins641 Thanks Bruce. I knew the song was meant for all soldiers and not just one, but appreciate your feedback on the song and its true connections with the Scottish and its writer Eric Bogle. Thanks for enlightening me on that great song !
@@brucecollins641 The song has a special meaning for me as my Grandfather was a WW1 Army veteran with the 144th Machine Gun Batallion.
@@stevekelley7738 well,it's thanks to your granpaw and thousands like him that we enjoy the freedoms we have today...lest we forget.
Again..and again and again and again.
What a talent, the same man wrote 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'The Green Fields Of France'. There is great German version of the latter by Hannes Wader 'Es ist an der Zeit'.
This is such a beautiful song
Gets to me everytime I hear it
Green fields of Ukraine.... 2022 edition...
Today we honor our heroes of past and present on this November 11th; Remebrance Day.
Im a combat veteran OIF, and I listen to this song to remember all my friends that didn't make it home
I am having this one at my funeral. Cool as fuck.
God bless ya’z.
Thank you Willie. Some of us antied up.
May the world know peace one day and many all soldiers come home. Let WW1 be a lesson there must be a better way no more dying in vain.
I'm gonna be honest. You can take this or fight me on this... I cried until my balls and left arm hurt and now everyone at work thinks that I'm a red faced drooling freak boy. I need a snickers cause I'm not me right now. I'm so cold and alone without a shoulder to wipe my bloody nose on.
First World War was unlike any other and no one can compare other wars except ww2. But the trench warfare attrition was ❤️ heart breaking
Al barr voice is amazing
I got to meet and speak with Al at a DKM concert..... Super nice fellow ! .... also, have spoken to Ken Casey.... but... hmmmmm.... not impressed with his lets say social graces/charm/personality..... kind of a dik.
The best anti-war song ever.
Between this and And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle might have credit as the best anti-war songwriter of the century, or even of all time.
And the best version as well
Lest We Forget
Damn, just damn
2022 - again and again :(
And now we're facing 2 wars, makes this even more sad
Frank Buckles was the last American ww1 vet
I knew a ww1 soldier Fred Moore he fought in the Mexican expedition then in France .Discharged after a bayonet wound . Can you effing imagine that ?
I love The High Kings but their version of this song is too pretty. I love the grit of this version.
Someday I will visit the Green Fields of France.
I lost a brother. Reg. Army myself
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis 😔
no more brother wars
Even more emotional to listen to now that we are wondering if WWIII is about to happen.
The Great War. What it was called before we had the sense to start numbering them.
Captor: any last wishes?
Me: i wanna listen to a song.
They let me go btw.
I am sure My cousin Liz, Andrew's sister and the rest of my family were too.
Thanks less enough, Epitaph Records .:)
To all deceased anonymous soldiers, press F.
❤❤
As a Pádraig I can confirm your address.
I need help from Buford t justice do you know his name
I wish somebody would help the situation out but the military can't do everything for you