John Tams - Over the hills and far away (feat . Sean Bean)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2008
- A beautiful English traditional featured in the TV series Sharpe.
Scenes from:
Sharpe's Eagles
Sharpe's Company
Sharpe's Enemys
Sharpe's Honour
Sharpe's Gold
Sharpe's Battle
Sharpe's Sword
Sharpe's Waterloo
Sorry for the too sharp overlapping at some points and the Sean Beans part being too quiet... maybe will fix them in the future :P - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
When he walked away from Spain...that was the most emotional ending for me. Sharpe had everything he never thought he could have: a family. I was a mess when he held his daughter for the last time. War wasn't the hardest thing for him to do. Giving up his family was 😢.
Maybe each actor only has a limited amount of plot shield to the characters they play. Sean Bean used all of it playing Sharpe.
monsterfurby true
@@fxe7332 Agreeing with a seven year old comment...
Now that's soldiering
Jellypantz 42 I say sir that is ripe!
not unfair to claim those theory. But to be true - I liked the performance as Boromir as well.
@@dgerdi Boromir died my friend, and it weren't even a life well lived, not once did he shoot a Frenchie. Pitiful.
You may come to the conclusion that Sharpe had a tad bit of plot armour, however, have you considered:
British > French.
Loved this series when it came out and still love it today. Happy moments, happy memories.
My ancestor fought under wellington during the napolenoic wars he died in 1866 at age 71
When Tam sings 'If I should fall to rise no more' and Sharpe looks back, that's when he is recalling all the friends and comrades lost in battle.
Back when Sean Bean didn't die. Better days...
Why do you think he's looking back in just about every one of these scenes? He can't believe he got out of another episode alive.
+IllogicalAssertations Don't you know, he's lookin' back to the comrades and lads he knew, who were no more, and yet there he was marching forward to the next encounter with..... for King George...
David Cadman - at the end of sharpe's enemy I think that he's looking back at the daughter he's leaving behind
He used up all his lives back then, that is why he dies in everything now.
Didn't die? Well they certainly didn't stop trying to kill him in every episode!
I have to say, hearing Hagmans voice again at the end of 'Sharpe's Challange' after he had already died at Waterloo gave me chills, lol;
There's something both inspiring and sad about this song;
It really is a beauty!
Fuckin asshole spoilers
Just about my favourite tv series of all time. That and Deadwood.. so many verses I have never heard before till now. Love them all. One of the things I love about this series is the character development of Sharpe. Not usually seen on tv.
My mum and I squealed like schoolgirls when Sean Bean as Boromir (Lord of the Rings) said "still SHARP."
We're like "HE'S STILL SHARPE!!"
That’s awesome
@@JohnSmith-dz2dc you know what is awesome, you’ve got the name of a British drink!
He did come back in 2006 and 2008, so maybe that was the reference.
Lol
He actually said that in the movie?
By all means monsieur. We frogs would be glad to bash back. A toast to the Anglo-French tradition of loving to hating each other
Here's to 'tradition'!
To the tradition, sun never sets on the british empire
Why no one likes the German french tradition?
How about the Danish - Swedish relationship most wars between them in the world.
As an Englishman I agree, heres to another hundred years war!
While there is very little of beauty to be found in the bloody conflict we call war, the one beautiful thing might be the songs composed and sung round campfires at night by men of valor heart sick for home and knowing too well that they may never see it again. Thanks for posting this beautiful version of this beautiful song.
When Bean looks back, you know it's gonna be ok
THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Yep
i still can believe John Tams himself was Dan Hagman.
Yes
He was the lanky trooper with big dark eyes and long, straight black hair.
That’s proper soldiering
I used to watch this series on history channel unfortunately today history channel has become a entertainment channel loved this series loved this character major sharper love from india
Excuse me!? That's Lieutenant colonel Sharpe to you! (jk, from Canada).
I have the box set of Sharpe and i quite a few times.
You may be interested to know the series is playing on BritBox streaming service
@@Catzilla931 Thank you So much i ll follow it during quarantines
I watched on A&E in the 80s-90s. Later it was on H2 I believe.
This tune, the singer, and the entire series had a profound effect on me when it first aired. Loved The Bean ever since; I knew he was going to be a national treasure.
I used to watch this when I was very little because my grandad used to watch this.
He died last year and so I decided to watch all of Sharpe again (He had the collectors edition boxset). I was suprised that i still knew the lyrics.
Over The Hills And Far Away ~ John Tams version: Written by:John Tams
Here's forty shillings on the drum
For those who'll volunteer to come
To 'list and fight the foe today.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
Then fall in lads behind the drum,
With colours blazing like the sun.
Along the road to come-what may.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
When duty calls me, I must go
To stand and face another foe.
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
{Through smoke and fire,
and shot and shell, and the very walls of hell,
but we shall stand, and we shall stay,
O'er the hills and far away}
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
{When evil stalks upon the land,
I'll neither hold nor stay me hand,
but fight to win a better day,
O'er the hills and far away}
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
{Let Kings and Tyrants come and go,
I'll stand adjudged by what I know,
A soldier's life I'll ne'er gainsay,
Over the hills and far away}
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
{Old Wellington he scratched his bum,
He says "Boney lad, thee's had thee fun,
My riflemen will win the day",
Over the hills and far away}
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
{Though I may travel far from Spain,
Part of me shall still remain,
For you are with me night and day,
Over the hills and far away}
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
If I should fall to rise no more,
As many comrades did before,
Then ask the fifes and drums to play.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Here's forty shillings on the drum
For those who'll volunteer to come
To 'list and fight the foe today.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.(...fade out...)
I salute you.
That's a mighty long song.
@@reynaldoflores4522 It grew as the events became more. Peace & Heath
Tams has got one of the most beautiful voices I've ever effin' heard.
A good Derbyshire lad. Had a few pints wi' him in the Wheel at Holbrook in Derbyshire.
Yep.
@@iangrimshaw1 He died a while back didn't he ? he did a bloody good job, he sounds like every Derbyshire poacher I've ever known
@@colderwar He's alive and well.
@@BelleroseQC Tams is not Bean confirmed
Honestly some of the best films I’ve ever seen, so thankful to my grandad for introducing me to them
Same
I have watched three times and still want to watch
Sean Bean should have kept making "Sharpe" movies. He'd live forever!
Yes - LOTR and GOT such as dissapointment. We got used to him being invincible!
Watched all the series of Sharpe, love them all. Especially the Theme tune sung by John Tams :) xx
Very good - Sharpe and Harper are Heroes- and the Others too!
One of the few shows where Sean Bean doesnt die every time XD love watching the sharpe series.
He died in everything else to build up continues for mighty Sharpe & his Chosen Men.
Aw what a song, what a series, what an actor.. Sean bean is awesome
'o'er the hills and o'er the main..'
[insert shot of sharpe looking backwards over shoulder at the start of a long journey]
Queen Elizabeth commanded and I obeyed.
I did nothing heroic but am proud to have served my country.
I love this awesome epic and glorious series! In the 90s I remember watching this and had a tone of fun best Napoleonic series great cast and outstanding performances Major Sharp and his riflemen forever all the way "Over the Hills and Far Away"...👏👏👌👌🙌🙌
Brings a tear to the cheek ,. Back then men still believed in honor and service.
Read Lions of Kandahar
Indeed...how times have changed since then what I wondered when was serving my time in service anyway.
@@TheSerpent21they where conscripst! And cannon fodder for land owners
@@Qwerty-sl3ns - there was never any conscription in Britain until 1916 (WW1). All army recruits were nominally volunteers - although sometimes the option for petty criminals was prison or the army!
I think many (if not most) men still believe in those things.
I wish a Spanish version of the series had been made.
I could listen to that song forever and never get tired of it, it's just great.
A Japanese version would also be great!
Nothing beats Sharpe, have grown up singing this song! Sharpe, Sharpe, Sharpe, Sharpe, Sharpe!
Sharpe s keeping me sane during lockdown 1 series a night , godbless
Fantastic series
i love the ending as it mixes over the hills and far away with the main sharpe theme. quite expertly done an all
sharpe is excellent
Loved it - especially as it focused on them moving on after fighting. Sharpe always looking back and remembering before turning and marching to the fight the foe another day.
Really good - thx
Amen! They bury their dead and keep on moving, keep following orders
I think they should bring back the Sharpe series, can you imagine it with today's filming technology, I mean there are some of the books that weren't covered by the Tv show
It would be great to see Sharpe's tiger, or Sharpe's Trafalgar in film.
It'd be nice to see something like that, but to be honest it's probably for the best that we didn't have a revival; at least not while the entertainment industry's like it is now. It'd be chock full of PC and social justice contrivances, and the overall quality would go to hell.
Just look at all the franchises that have been given another chance, and how they're pale imitations of what came before. For someone to make something like this today, it'd take a lot more courage and integrity than most would be willing to give.
Wouldn't work today- calling Harper a "paddy bastard" or the French "frogs" or a "Spaniard prick"
Well to be fair we have the digitally remastered collection, better quality image, same good ol Sharpe. It's perfect!
I’d love to see Sharpe’s Devil as it is set a few years after Waterloo so it would make sense that Sean Bean and Daragh O’ Malley are older.
Why isn’t this on Spotify
Derbyshire, thank you John Tams. Amazing.
The version about Sharpe's daughter at 2:11 is saddest and most touching in my opinion.
I am from Portugal and go on hikes around the Iberian Penisula and everytime I am out there this music comes to mind specially the part " Over the hills and far away, through Flanders, Portugal and Spain!" pretty much describes our hills and our land :D
o My God Sean in this film is too great, and his voice in the end...wonderful!!!...it's a pity that these films didn't arrive in italy... =(
I've recently started to watch Sharpe an what can i say i absolutley love the series and cant wait for the new one that their doing including Sean Bean and Daragh O'Malley, its gonna be epic.
I'm Devoted to this Patriotic Folk Anthem!! ❤❤
My dad use to sing it to me when I'm a baby
Tristan Griffiths I think you mean when I was a baby
Oh
Tristan, I liked it better the way you said it. You were reliving the memory, so the present tense is clever. We poets understand such things :)
That there is proper soldiering, sir
This is actually a song dedicated to the 95th Rifles. The precursor to the modern infantryman.
IIRC it's the regimental anthem.
Ah childhood memories. Where did the last 20 years go.
Sean Bean: A man's got no right to be that handsome.
brilliant series every single one of them
sean bean played his part as sharpe inpecably no one could have done better
Thank you so very much. Didn't have the privilege to know of this series till recently. It's unbelievably beautiful and catching ! And so true, still today, when we see that birth is often more important than merit. When it should be quite the contrary :-)
brilliiant series, I wish there was more
Sean Bean is so handsome... Oh my goodness ❤💕❤❤💕💓💔
Ma'am you have good taste, you can clearly recognise an Officer when you see one. I bow my hat to you x ;)
@@steerpike9204, Steerpike! Oh no!
Sharpe forever
ive watched the sharpe's series many times over, and only now have i noticed the formula used at the end of so many episodes. Sharp walks away, turns about, close up on his face as he looks into the distance, turn back around, walk away lol
Excellent this should be released as a track the complete over the hills song and marketed for action for heros the words mean as much then as today for our servicemen and women
Great tv series
Who else wishes they had made Hornblower - Sharpe crossover epsiode?
YES!
Lol
Singing a song so beautiful that it inspires those around you... now that’s soldiering!
god bless all our soldiers throughout history who never came back over the hills fighting for the greatest country in history GREAT Britain
"Part of us will still remain
Over the hills and Spain"
thought you were going to say GREECE then.
the collective isles of britain are known as great britain as in greater, not great as in fantastic, life wasn't anything at all near to fantastic for the ordinary down trodden working class british who were the countries cannon fodder for often a shoddy officer class.
Well said Sir !
I'm the son of a Navy Chiefy, from Plymouth . Very biased towards our boys- (and girls now !) - in Uniform! Like my Dad I spend a lot of time away from my loved ones and my home. I have a different kind of command - I command a language classroom ! Now resident in Spain - as of 1 week at this date. Britain is still great, and always will be - if folks like you and me still remember and honour our Armed Services !
P.S - the centre of Westeros is Sheffield !! Sean Bean is bloody fantastic !! And so is Bernard Cornwell who writes the Sharpe books !
KING GEORGE COMMANDS AND WE OBEY...
...OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
Ruoke Avel
And now we’ve got a new king George yet he doesn’t know it.
He wants to be called Archie .
That King George was a stuck up, stubborn blowhard idiot. Hopefully the future one will not be.
@@davidtuttle7556 don't forget he was literally insane as well
takes me back and means so much xxx love you Sharpe - the other love of my life!
A great series...a tribute to the Rifles...the
Nation ...
and that ... through the years! 3 Cheers
Bless 'em All !
Just brilliant
Sharpe is one of my favorite.
Brilliant series. Totaly hooked.
Its Tams all the way. Love him.
Over the hills and far away was written in the 18th Centry. The words are as true now as they were then. Soldiers are always sent off to war and basically forgttenabout. Not now however, as we are all behind our guys especially in that Hellhole Afganhistan. We support you all wherever you are and thank you for what you do for all of us. May God look after you all.
love it John, excellent!
I'm lucky to have all 21 books in the Sharpe series and just reading them again after 10 years. Brings back memories of Sean Penn playing Sharpe in the excellent TV series. The British and French faced each other in battle about 70-100 metres apart. Any further and the musket balls flew anywhere. Those soldiers were brave men. The British could fire faster than the French and were aligned into lines so every soldier could shoot. The French attacked in massive columns with only a small proportion of soldiers able to shoot at the enemy.
Sean Bean :D
Very good! I've been looking for these lyrics for months. Thank you.
The difficulty is that Mr. Tams never sang the song in entirity in any one episode of 'Sharpe'.
Added to favourites because I need a daily fix of 'Sharpe'.
that is quite the best post of sharpe´s theme ever, especially regarding the various lines of the song most people did not know
I enjoyed all of the Sharpes series.. an amateur history buff.. I also served 10 years with The Black Watch who fought in a lot of the battles featured in the series
Well done, nice to see the tradition carried on, good luck to you and all your comrades over whatever hills and no matter how far away.
Cymru am Byth
I❤️this song
How could anyone "thumb down" a quote from the episode? Whoever did it isn't a fan of Sharpe!
Right bastards they are.
I love to live in those days
Same mate....same...
When literally men were men
If I remember correctly His mother died when he was still a pretty small child. Also you get the impression in the books he just doesn't care about who his parents were, he's got all the answers he'll ever need on the subject.
love this film
This was well done, i love this song, watching this series, seeing how brave those that formed lines to fire apon those that where so close, now days this does not happen, there is no longer any honor in war.
Great Video. Danke!
Cracking series.
...Followed, closely, by 'Filth'!
Since downloading his album version friday night, I can't stop palying 'O'er The Hills & far Away'. Even started downloading the rest of John's work... He's got such a unique voice. I can listen to him forever, despite being a Brit... LOL ;-)
Slán,
GC88
Love this song
I loved the series
@kiely456 lol, true.. Maybe it's part of a deeper meaning. He looks back and that symbolises him leaving the past behind and moving forward? I don't know, haven't seen these episodes before :) I like the song!
When I was in the 2nd rifels my platoon had me sing that it brings back memories
so beauiful.. all men of arms.. of all nations must pay tribute.. ah USMC does so now.. i love it.. thank ye
It's also mentioned he goes to London briefly before the events of Company. Just thought I'd nerdily point that out.
@Badboyalexx If you are putting your life on the line for this country you are already a true hero, Badboy. My children and grandchildren will sleep safe tonight because of you and your brothers and sisters in arms. You have my deepest respect.
Vietnam vet. 70-71
Semper Fi
Watched the series of sharp from beging to and iam watching it again on utub so going over hills and far away again❤
Thank you so much for this...loved it!!
I would love to see a compilation of all the scenes from the show where Hagman sings. He was, by far, my favourite character in the show. I wish there had been just an episode or 2 where there had been a subplot that revolved around him.
fall in lads behind the drum.
with colours blazing like the sun.
along the road to come what may.
over hills and far away
is the best verse exceot maybe
if i should fall to rise no more.
as many comrades did before.
then ask the fifes and drums to play.
over the hills and far away.
Is that Bean himself reciting the chorus at the end?
Indeed.
Legend
Woohoo I met Harris today!!!! Good fella signed picture and everything
@lobo81865 "Over the Hills and Far Away" is an very old song, a version of it appeared in John Gays' "The Beggars Opera" (1728), it was of course adapted for the Sharpe TV series. (I've known the song in its original version since I was kid and I'm 48)
He sang it today in Holmfirth - not many dry eyes (at least in my head.)
Sharpe: every woman wants him, every man wants to be him.
Met Harris this weekend. Bloody nice guy and always at odessey show in the UK every August. Highly recommend going n seeing him if your a fan
Good thing AC3 takes place at least 40 years BEFORE the Sharpe stories take place.
Sharp made me join the army
CHOSEN MEN!