I like the fact that you listened to the entire song before commenting . A song is a work of art wqhich happens in time , there are ebbs and flows of tension and release which is lost if stopped before its completion !
He manages to bring a mixture of guilt, pride, and shame in many of his songs. They should be sung for ever more, maybe the human race will eventually learn. I have my doubts.
Davey Arthur and the Fureys made this song huge internationally so much so that when Eric Bogle played in Ireland and introduced the song as one he'd written the audience didn't believe him and booed him. It almost caused a riot. It's been covered by the Dropkick Murphys too and they do a wonderful version. Worth a listen.
The Fureys copy is excellent but in reality they stole the song and even had the audacity to change it from the original No man’s Land to The green fields of France.They should of acknowledged at each performance that it was a Eric Bogle song then the riot wouldn’t of occurred.
@@PeterMorris-b7h also changed some o the original lyric. al stick to erics original words. no sodjer gets buried to the death march.. the furies were struggling for material, alang came this one and saved the day fer them..
Oh angel ! It’s around the world is happy this or that. We always said merry Christmas my son was about ten when he came home from school and said it’s happy Christmas not merry. My father nuts so we said merry Christmas around him. I took my son to euro we spent three months driving around and we would come across crosses in fields . Often we would get out and say a prayer. You could still see where the bullets had hit the churches. War is senseless . Fighting over a line or road on a map and I understand the why politically but out soldiers both men and women are scared if they make it back at all . God bless and lest we forget. Sigh 😢thanks Mike for honouring soldiers all over the world .such a sad song I need a drop of rum I think xox
No Man's Land was Bogle's original title. It's not a song specifically about the Anzacs like 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda,' but about WW1 in general in which of course Australian troops played their part.
I always took it that ‘And the Band played Waltzing Matilda’ was about the Australian experience of the war, and ‘No Man’s Land’ about the British experience of the war on the western front, given Bogle’s Scottish roots
Eric Bogle (it's pronounced bow-gill) is a phenomenal songwriter. The man on Eric's right is John Monroe, he traveled with Eric for many years. Sadly John passed away in 2018. Eric wrote a touching tribute to John, a song called a Fork in the Road... th-cam.com/video/41fVXOMzjYI/w-d-xo.html
Big Mike, This is one of my very favorite Eric Bogle songs, thanks so much for featuring it. While I am thinking of songs that can make you cry (Like you mentioned about "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda") I would highly recommend Eric's lovely and heart wrenching "It's as If He Knows" About the Light Horsemen in WW1. Peace to you and yours, Jim Wilkins I just found your Reaction to "It's as If He Knows", it was excellent, but made my previous request unnecessary. (I just edited my original comment that ended with my name)
You should listen to "Les Morts Dansant" by English group Magnum, it is not a single so no music video, but lot on TH-cam they also did a song called "soldier of the line " (acoustic version) another great war song. Magnum were never hugh, but they are great, and still performing now
The song is for every soldier that died. British. French Australian Canadian all of them. All brave men, so they should all be Celebrated? For the sacrifice they made.
Don’t sweat it mate. We know what you mean. I’ve heard Aussies say happy and celebrate when referring to Anzac Day. Slip of the tongue. Enjoy your trip to Florida.
I am of Irish heritage and love Irish folk songs. But I will say this my favorite version of this song is Dropkick Murphys. My great uncle died in 1945 in WWII he was days short of his 20th birthday. ❤
I love DKM. This has a little more soul to it, but DKM did such an excellent cover of it that it was the first version I heard. This is a song that everyone needs to hear.
I love the Fureys and their copy of Eric Bogles song is brilliant.They have plaugerised it they shouldn’t have changed the title from No man’s Land to the Green Fields of France.More credit should go to the person who wrote it Eric Bogle.Its not a Irish folk song although the song is about an Irishman.Eric said Willie McBride just happened to be the one he sang about but was meant to represent all those who died in France.The Fureys should of mentioned that Eric Bogle wrote it before they sang it at each appearance
@@PeterMorris-b7h this sang was not about an irish soldier or any other individual soldier. he wrote it out of respect for all the soldiers in a ww1 cemetery he was visiting..
@@brucecollins641 Eric Bogle actually visited the cemetery and saw the grave of Willie McBride and as I said he used the name to represent all the soldiers who died in WW1.
@@PeterMorris-b7h a know full well he visited the cemetery. the willie macbride that's commonly posted is not the one eric sat down at (that's the one the irish media posted). so, who was the original willie macbride?. macbride being a scottish name.also, he chose macbride as it rhymes with graveside...
He, and we, pronounce his surname Bow g uls rather than Bo g uls. A cousin of mine put me on to Bogle in the late 70s. Said cousin Steve "it took a scot to capture our Australian WW1 experience" steve and I have 2 great great unkles buried in France. Yes, Johnlockier, shivers up the spine is right.
ERIC BOGLE REALLY WRITES SINGS AND LOSS AND ALL HE HAS DONE 2018 TOUR HUMPH HALL SYDNEY WATCH THAT BIG MIKE AND YES STILL THAT SAME BAND MINUS JOHN AND HIS WIFE RIP FOR THEM. REGGIES CRADLE BUT I NEVER LISTEN TO HE DOSEN'I KNUW I WEAR A BLUE POPPY LISTEN???????????
mickey , i went to a neighbours party , an aussie digger fresh from iraq............ had a round go thru his shirt sleeve , hit his best mate in the head , killed him. he pulled me aside and told me he could not wait to go back. it took me a very long time to get my head around that. then it clicked , its all for ur mates.
Whats ansack day ? I don't care if I spelt it wrong. The Fureys version is better...he may have written it,,,but he robbed the fureys style....Say it as it is...
staffy4389....rubbish...it's sangs like this that made the furies famous. a was around in the 50s when "irish" music was jist starting. the fledgling irish bands like the clancies adopted the scottish style alang with many scottish and english sangs. then the dubliners formed in 62 and did the same. then the furies in the 70s did the same. say it as it is.
I like the fact that you listened to the entire song before commenting . A song is a work of art wqhich happens in time , there are ebbs and flows of tension and release which is lost if stopped before its completion !
His songs are not easy to listen to, but I think it important that people do. Thanks again for remembering and reacting to our day here in Australia.
He manages to bring a mixture of guilt, pride, and shame in many of his songs. They should be sung for ever more, maybe the human race will eventually learn. I have my doubts.
As an Australian, Just like "When The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", this song always sends shivers up my spine. Thanks for highlighting these songs.
Beautiful song.
Man's blind indifference to his fellow man !! So, so sad. 💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🏴🏴🏴
Davey Arthur and the Fureys made this song huge internationally so much so that when Eric Bogle played in Ireland and introduced the song as one he'd written the audience didn't believe him and booed him. It almost caused a riot.
It's been covered by the Dropkick Murphys too and they do a wonderful version. Worth a listen.
This is a song that is almost impossible to do a bad version of.
The Fureys copy is excellent but in reality they stole the song and even had the audacity to change it from the original No man’s Land to The green fields of France.They should of acknowledged at each performance that it was a Eric Bogle song then the riot wouldn’t of occurred.
@@PeterMorris-b7h also changed some o the original lyric. al stick to erics original words. no sodjer gets buried to the death march.. the furies were struggling for material, alang came this one and saved the day fer them..
OMG mike this guy knows how to tell a story is his voice is so Eerie to listen to
Beautiful haunting words painting a devastating picture.
Oh angel ! It’s around the world is happy this or that. We always said merry Christmas my son was about ten when he came home from school and said it’s happy Christmas not merry. My father nuts so we said merry Christmas around him.
I took my son to euro we spent three months driving around and we would come across crosses in fields . Often we would get out and say a prayer. You could still see where the bullets had hit the churches. War is senseless . Fighting over a line or road on a map and I understand the why politically but out soldiers both men and women are scared if they make it back at all . God bless and lest we forget. Sigh 😢thanks Mike for honouring soldiers all over the world .such a sad song I need a drop of rum I think xox
Lucky it's ANZAC Day, you can start drinking early. 😄
No Man's Land was Bogle's original title. It's not a song specifically about the Anzacs like 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda,' but about WW1 in general in which of course Australian troops played their part.
I always took it that ‘And the Band played Waltzing Matilda’ was about the Australian experience of the war, and ‘No Man’s Land’ about the British experience of the war on the western front, given Bogle’s Scottish roots
So sad, all those young men sent to their death. Beautifully put together song
Hadn't heard this one before, beautiful.
Eric Bogle (it's pronounced bow-gill) is a phenomenal songwriter. The man on Eric's right is John Monroe, he traveled with Eric for many years. Sadly John passed away in 2018.
Eric wrote a touching tribute to John, a song called a Fork in the Road...
th-cam.com/video/41fVXOMzjYI/w-d-xo.html
Quick correction on the correct pronciation of his surname. It's pronounced Boh-gull. A powerful song to be sure
Big Mike, This is one of my very favorite Eric Bogle songs, thanks so much for featuring it. While I am thinking of songs that can make you cry (Like you mentioned about "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda") I would highly recommend Eric's lovely and heart wrenching "It's as If He Knows" About the Light Horsemen in WW1. Peace to you and yours, Jim Wilkins I just found your Reaction to "It's as If He Knows", it was excellent, but made my previous request unnecessary. (I just edited my original comment that ended with my name)
A powerful song, should be heard more.
This song has been done by a few different singers , i also like "The Fureys" version
You should listen to "Les Morts Dansant" by English group Magnum, it is not a single so no music video, but lot on TH-cam they also did a song called "soldier of the line " (acoustic version) another great war song. Magnum were never hugh, but they are great, and still performing now
not only does he sing it he wrote it!
The song is for every soldier that died. British.
French Australian Canadian all of them. All brave men, so they should all be Celebrated? For the sacrifice they made.
And German children and all other children who fought these stupid wars for Mickey Mouse politicians and the defence industry.
My great grand dad is buried in France
Youve done us proud today. No worries mate. Lol
Don’t sweat it mate. We know what you mean. I’ve heard Aussies say happy and celebrate when referring to Anzac Day. Slip of the tongue. Enjoy your trip to Florida.
Great reaction Mick, all of the so called tough guys today would not last 10 minutes in the trenches of the First World War!
I am of Irish heritage and love Irish folk songs. But I will say this my favorite version of this song is Dropkick Murphys.
My great uncle died in 1945 in WWII he was days short of his 20th birthday. ❤
I love DKM. This has a little more soul to it, but DKM did such an excellent cover of it that it was the first version I heard. This is a song that everyone needs to hear.
I love the Fureys and their copy of Eric Bogles song is brilliant.They have plaugerised it they shouldn’t have changed the title from No man’s Land to the Green Fields of France.More credit should go to the person who wrote it Eric Bogle.Its not a Irish folk song although the song is about an Irishman.Eric said Willie McBride just happened to be the one he sang about but was meant to represent all those who died in France.The Fureys should of mentioned that Eric Bogle wrote it before they sang it at each appearance
@@PeterMorris-b7h this sang was not about an irish soldier or any other individual soldier. he wrote it out of respect for all the soldiers in a ww1 cemetery he was visiting..
@@brucecollins641 Eric Bogle actually visited the cemetery and saw the grave of Willie McBride and as I said he used the name to represent all the soldiers who died in WW1.
@@PeterMorris-b7h a know full well he visited the cemetery. the willie macbride that's commonly posted is not the one eric sat down at (that's the one the irish media posted). so, who was the original willie macbride?. macbride being a scottish name.also, he chose macbride as it rhymes with graveside...
He, and we, pronounce his surname Bow g uls rather than Bo g uls. A cousin of mine put me on to Bogle in the late 70s. Said cousin Steve "it took a scot to capture our Australian WW1 experience" steve and I have 2 great great unkles buried in France. Yes, Johnlockier, shivers up the spine is right.
❤️🙏🌏🪐🌕🙏🐦🇦🇺🌸🦋🌷🏡🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏
ERIC BOGLE REALLY WRITES SINGS AND LOSS AND ALL HE HAS DONE 2018 TOUR HUMPH HALL SYDNEY WATCH THAT BIG MIKE AND YES STILL THAT SAME BAND MINUS JOHN AND HIS WIFE RIP FOR THEM. REGGIES CRADLE BUT I NEVER LISTEN TO HE DOSEN'I KNUW I WEAR A BLUE POPPY LISTEN???????????
mickey , i went to a neighbours party , an aussie digger fresh from iraq............ had a round go thru his shirt sleeve , hit his best mate in the head , killed him. he pulled me aside and told me he could not wait to go back. it took me a very long time to get my head around that. then it clicked , its all for ur mates.
try sing fields of green.
Sad song.
Listen to The Fureys, by far best version by far.
sorry mickey fields of gold ,greener would be much better. sting.
Whats ansack day ? I don't care if I spelt it wrong. The Fureys version is better...he may have written it,,,but he robbed the fureys style....Say it as it is...
staffy4389....rubbish...it's sangs like this that made the furies famous. a was around in the 50s when "irish" music was jist starting. the fledgling irish bands like the clancies adopted the scottish style alang with many scottish and english sangs. then the dubliners formed in 62 and did the same. then the furies in the 70s did the same. say it as it is.
ANZAC. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Ignorance must be bliss staffy