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John McCormack The Minstrel Boy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2008
- "The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. It is widely believed that Moore composed the song in remembrance of a number of his friends, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Dublin and who had participated in (and were killed during) the 1798 rebellion of the United Irishmen. However, the song gained widespread popularity and became a favourite of many Irishmen who fought during the United States Civil War and gained even more popularity after World War I. The song is notably associated with organisations that historically had a heavy representation of Irish-Americans, in particular the police and fire departments of New York, Boston and Chicago and those of various other major US metropolitan areas, even after those organisations have ceased to have a substantial over-representation of personnel of Irish ancestry. The melody is frequently played at funerals of members and/or officers of such organisations who have died or been killed in service, typically on bagpipes. Unsurprisingly, given its lyrics, it is also associated with the Irish Army and with traditionally Irish regiments and/or Irish Brigades found in other armies. (A song with similar status is the more recent "Danny Boy".) The text of the original song follows:
The minstrel boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you'll find him;
His father's sword he hath girded on,
And his wild harp slung behind him;
"Land of Song!" cried the warrior bard,
"Tho' all the world betrays thee,
One sword, at least, thy right shall guard,
One faithful harp shall praise thee!"
The Minstrel fell! But the foeman's chain
Could not bring that proud soul under;
The harp he lov'd ne'er spoke again,
For he tore its chords asunder;
And said "No chains shall sully thee,
Thou soul of love and brav'ry!
Thy songs were made for the pure and free
They shall never sound in slavery!
This version was recorded during his Australia tour as can be seen from the photo
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Learned to sing this at primary school in 1957. Opened me to McCormack, Ireland, courage, and great music... Thanks to Ms Dobson our teacher.....
we had sing this song at school in 1942 and still in my mind today.
for some reason it just came to me while i was making some supper tonight
How would you compare going to school in the 40s with school today?
That's interesting, where in the world are you from?
HOLY HELL
I learned it at a Catholic school in Bangor, probably around 1961. Like your school, there were no political or sectarian implications, it was simply a beautiful song. I too still love it.
I'm not gonna win this one, am I Chief?
No sir.
Never forgett Setlik III. Never forgett Bajor. Never forgett cardassian treason.
Bomber Domme And he was right all along. Those damn traitorous Cardassians.
Indeed ... sometimes the chain of command blinds people to the truth ... even the Federation and Picard with their high moral standards.
I love that that's what other people associate with this tune too.
The 23 people who disliked had turned their computer upside-down to see the picture, then hit what they thought was the "like" button...
The 23 ppl who disliked this song are tans!
paddy25c Even a "yank" like myself must like this song...of course I do have a touch of the old sod nourishing our family tree...thanks Granddad!
We learned this song when I was in elementary school in the U.S. in the early 1960's. It brought me to tears then and does today. Thanks for posting!
Just amazing listening to John McCormack, there is no one who can sing like that now!
Yes there is! Check out/google John McDemott, last best Irish Tenor.
I agree
I remember my mother playing John McCormick’s records while I was growing up in the South Bronx in the 1950’s. My siblings have the same recollection. It is one of my favorite Irish songs. It brings out the fierce devotion of Irish men & women to the cause of Irish freedom. I still find it a special song done by a great Irish singer.
I literally just watched "The wounded" and wondered if it was a real song. This episode blew me away! Especially the fact that Miles went from tactical to teleport because he didn't want to kill people anymore. Such subtle depth to what is essentially a sub character of a show!
Best character in trek period
They also play the song when we see him last at the end of DS9.
Never noticed that! 😱
The most epic irish song. Every time i heard it in the end of "The man who would be king" i cry for minutes!
Johnny Mac Best Every Version of The Minstrel Boy even 100 years later!!
Listened to this while standing on my head.
The upside down picture finally seems appropriate with how distressed the world was and in now in this 2nd year of Covid 19 pandemic.
Great song sung by the greatest Irish tenor, ever!!
John McCormack was my mother's second cousin - she was Gladys Bell McCormack. We had his records when I was a kid in the 1930s and this was one of our favorites.
My late mother used to sing this so very long ago. She would have turned 100 this February.
107 this february
Marie Walsh, who came here by herself as a teenager from County Limerick, sang this to me as a child in the 1950s. May the Blessing of the Light be on Her!
My dear father would sing this song along with 'The Harp that once thro' Tara's Halls' and 'I'll take you home again, Kathleen' and the tears would roll down my cheeks. That was seventy-four years ago and Dad, the tears still roll and my love for you is as strong as ever.
By far, this is one of my favorite 78's that I own!
I love this song, especially the melody but also the way Chief O'Brien sang it.
I learned this song at school in Belfast in the 1950,s when I was 9 or 10.. Surprisingly It was in a protestant/loyalist area of the city though no political or sectarian slant was ever taught or implied....we were simply told that it was a great song by a great poet and sung to a great tune!!
I loved it then and have continued to love it since.
The Irish know bravery and death like no others, and I am a Murphy of Irish decent.
Beautiful Irish patriotic song.
Amazing phrasing by a tenor admired even by the immortal Enrico Caruso.
honour this man and educate kids .this man is the best singer that ever lived .pure not forced straight from the heart listen to them top notes and tell me if there is anyone in the world can sing like that ?-
John McCormack was an amazing singer and I have listened to most of his patriotic songs already and they are very stirring.
Mother and grandmother loved John McCormick. So do I.
Thank you for uploading this great song! Always good to boost motivation by listening to good old heroic tunes.
I'm a orange man, the wrong kind of irish,but i love this song. Dedicated to all the great departed from the time of the french and indian wars. They shall never be forgotten and allowed to fade and die.
Sinn Fein! Bless yer heart anyhow, we both adore McCormack!
@@carolkristian1146 I've got a complete set. I love his duet on the pearl fishermen. Thanks to the old irish couple who lived down the street snd played irish music on a old phonogragh with a horn on it. My father tried to warn me against those redheaded fienigan women but i never listened.
Beautiful rendition!
To All My Comrades, Happy Veterans Day 2015. We are all too OLD to swill beer inverted anymore.
Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien) did not sound as trained as this gentleman but he sang just as much from his heart. It's a great song no matter who sings it.
Simply beautiful! Thank you for posting a video dedicated to a great voice from the past.
McCormack - what a voice,,,
Beautiful Thomas Moore song beautifully sung by the one and only great great John McCormack Both McCormack and the great great Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman were firm friends in New York and the will of God the two greats departed from this earth in 1945 both having died prematurely May the two great legends Rest In Peace
my great great great uncle
Great song;Great singer
You should wear that relationship proudly. If my house were large enough to accommodate it, I would have a John McCormack shrine.
Thomas Moore or John McDermott? If the prior, you're family's got impressive longevity.
I meant John McCormack. I am a silly man.
Gratz
On the eve of St. Patrick's Day, to listen again to the world's greatest tenor ever (along, perhaps, with Caruso), is a spine-chilling experience. Despite J. McCormack's handsome visage being inverted--the work of English saboteurs, no doubt!
Thank you so much for the comment. No, I don't think the English hate the Irish. Nor do I think the Irish hate the English. At least not in this day and age. It's just that the history of Ireland is so tragic, with so many misguided policies in England's attempt to rule Ireland for some six centuries. It seems we need to know and learn from history, without being steeped in old prejudices.
Thanks again for visiting my page!
+Paul Kenna i can get what you are say but what the english have done to the irish like killing millions will last forever
+Denny Chiropractic The sad thing about history: the effects last forever. But hopefully the hate can subside with time. That said, the brutal suppression of the 1916 Easter Rising is still too recent to forgotten--or fully forgiven. And the same might be said for the British response to the potato famine of the 1840s.
"Potato famine"? - the famine was the result of shiploads of other food being shipped out.
So true! So let's call it a "crop failure"--which led to starvation, typhus and emigration.
Thank you for sharing this.
The Minstrel Boy is the official Corps song/march of the Australian Army Band Corps. It is sung at all official Corps gatherings, and often in public performance. We also perform it at the laying to rest of our own.
God Bless you for posting this and the lyrics-kindest regards Paul Duffy XXXxxxx
Enrico Caruso and John McCormack met one day. McCormack said, "How is the world's greatest tenor today?" Caruso answered, "When did John McCormack become a baritone?"
OUTSTANDING ERIN GO BRAUGH
part of the soundtrack to my youth growing up in ireland.
such music
Simply and perfectly well.
So beautiful ❤️ RIP🌹27🌹
Greatest singer of the 20th century
Wonderful...
I must admit, all my life I have thought that this was a Welsh song. You learn something every day.
I learned this song from Chief O'Brien. We used to sing it on the cardasian front.
great song
McCormack cannot swill brew at my tempo when he is inverted!
Magnificent. I sing this song at times, but nowhere like this (my voice is closer to bass baritone).
@sheilamaclean actually it is said he wrote the song for the friends he lost in the revolt of 1798.
@neymoura - Strange I don't see it that way. I hear a song about honor and duty. I hear a song that says by fighting for your beliefs, you are free and your honor will remain unsullied even upon death. It's a very lovely song and also very powerful.
The third verse added later seemed to try to make it anti-war, but I don't think the original song was necessarily.
The story goes that one morning in a hotel dining room a young John McCormick came up to the table where the great Enrico Caruso was having breakfast and asked, "How is the world's greatest tenor doing this morning?'"
Without even looking up, Caruso replied, "I wouldn't know for I am not John McCormick."
Enrico Caruso was right!
I like the version very much. Other versions are sung with a sort of pride of dying in War. I believe this should be sung as though by the boy's bereft mother with great sadness
Our next selection will be "The World Turned Upside Down".
Me to, I was there at setlik 3!
So true. And some of its greatest poets.
Nice.
Makes me proud of the Scottish People so brave so intrepid even in death, I am not Scottish but would gladly die among them.
It's an Irish song
why is John Mc Cormack upside down! AGAIN.
+TheDustysix Here I was thinking it was to evade copyright bots.
You are probably right Sir.
Best Version , John McMormack
Excellent use of the word gimp. Well done
My dad had this record after WWII. PAX! Sid, SID^(.
John McCormack, the greatest singer who ever lived. Too bad, he is mostly forgotten and that his recordings were recorded in the old days before the recording science was perfected.
Listen to Anthony Kearns of The Irish Tenors fame and you will hear a similar operatic voice .
RIP Stompy.
Just me and a few of the guys aboard the Rutledge.
It's March 7th, still China flu influence, but we're getting better. In the new and wonderful world of mommy's boys & girls. Please don't hurt my feelings! What a sad state. Pride of being Irish growing up was, be respectful, don't complain, give it 100 % with efforts in life, God comes 1st, 2nd family.
John McCormick, the best of best! Frank Patterson a close 2nd!
@Holycani In my opinion, Land of Song is Ireland, the boy's home. He expresses how even when everyone else is dead or plotting against his homeland, he will still defend it by himself with his father's sword and praise it with music. It is truly inspiring, as a minstrel boy symbolizes the exact opposite of a warrior, yet he never gives up in his country's darkest hour.
We are all winners today.
This was my battalions marching song.
To our Marines in RC SW and Soldiers in the Anghardab...Semper Fi and HOOAH!!
Perhaps the Image is upside down so that our Australian friends can enjoy it.
Why is the picture upside down?
@andrewlubin19067 my thoughts and sentiments exactly! FMF airdale 77-81. semper fi! you young marines and all your cohorts in the army, navy, air force and coast guard are the finest troops we have ever had. not just from your skill and bravery, but most importantly for love and devotion to each other. small unit cohesion is your guys forte.
I’m the 900 like👍🏻
@sheilamaclean my bad i meant thomas moore, the author of the song
Shuman, here is the last verse: The Minstrel Boy will return we pray
When we hear the news we all will cheer it,
The minstrel boy will return one day,
Torn perhaps in body, not in spirit.
Then may he play on his harp in peace,
In a world such as Heaven intended,
For all the bitterness of man must cease,
And ev'ry battle must be ended
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Correct me if I am wrong. Wasn't this his first American Victor Recording? circa 1910 or 11?
Terrific song, the Irish and Scottish regiments are so lucky to have such great music as this and Killaloo, Willie McBride, Flowers of the Forest, Sgt McKenzie etc Went to the funeral of a soldier in the London Irish last week and they played this on the pipes, it was amazing.
Now, a few historical facts that bear stating. This song is IN NO WAY sectarian, bigoted, anti-British, republican, anti-royalty or pro-Irish Nationalist. Robert Moore was a Catholic but he was educated at Trinity, served in the Admiralty, was the toast of upper class British society, a friend of the Prince of Wales, married an English Protestant and performed for Queen Victoria. Sure he knew some of the United Irishmen but was never a member and he would also have known some of their Irish opponents, the song makes no distinction in the allegiance of the Irish soldiers it pays tribute to. Moore considered all Britain’s political problem’s solved with the emancipation of Catholics and non-established Protestants in 1828 and opposed Daniel O’Connell and his Catholic association denouncing him as a demagogue.
He was also vehemently opposed to slavery and one theory is that this is what the song is actually about. Interestingly it was sung by Irish soldiers on both sides in the American Civil War but for obvious reasons was more popular with the Union troops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore
So, The Minstrel Boy is for everyone, Protestant/Catholic, Unionist/Nationalist, EVERYONE!
No, again, you're reading into it what you what to see, Moore was no racist bigot, these are historical poems of times past, everything we know of Moore and his conduct contradicts that assertion, he was a fine and good man.
The name was Thomas Moore, and yes, it was a nationalist anthem. The United Irishmen, with whom Moore was acquainted, were mostly of the Ascendancy class, i.e., Church of Ireland, but wanted to extend equal rights to all classes and denominations. The bigots in this situation were the English rulers, who, rather than have non-Anglicans make laws in the Irish parliament, shut it down.
hey i saw somewhere before that a third verse was added during the revolutionary war something about the minstrel boy coming back do you know where i can find the final verse?
Upside down pic yo
+benedictify Ditto, upside down pic yo yo yo!
For our Antipodean listeners..
need guitar tab for this tune
Thuscis the best version I've heard except for Paul Robeson's.
He sounds like Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther series) singing that little French diddy when he's in one of his sloppy disguises.
Well played good sir, I was with you on Setlik III. Spoon head children killers.
Ohh, listening to this song reminds me of the time back on Taleria IV when the bloody Cardies caused a feedback loop on the primary EPS converter that caused a 13% drop in shield efficiency and we had to reroute power from life support through the ODN junction... bloody Cardassians!
@mrronan2007 I would, though I love McCormack rate both Fischer-Dieskau and Jussi Björling above him. But I guess it's also a matter of taste...
Up the RA!
Moving
Beautiful, sad song..
@agatematt Well, not quite but second place behind Maestro Caruso was not bad.
Wasn't this played in some of the New York 9/11/01 funerals ?
So true Paul!! John was the greatest tenor I have ever heard.....English baaaaastads
born in Belfast 1944!
your talking about star trek the next generation episode the wounded
why is John Mc Cormick upside down?