Greatest Anti-War Song - "The Green Fields of France"

NORTHERN LIAR the war in afghanistan is only just beginning with your friends battling it out until the RIGHT sort of islam is in control -
you still haven't provided the evidence northern liar

**** me it's a loon invasion

Just ignore them - I don't know who they are!

if you want to tolerate liars and let them get away with it then so be it
probably what is wrong with this country as we are finding out more and more we are being lied to left right and centre
but hey ho  let them walk all over us eh!!??

racist lying homophobic scum like northernliar are at the head of it - his political masters decree it

'The Green Fields of France' by the Fureys and Davey Arthur is always my response to this question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

"To man's blind indifference to his fellow man"

tommy he's a bellend don't encourage him

Buffy Sainte Marie's Universal Soldier sung by Donovan is a good number.
Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag -Country Joe and The Fish

Non musicians like Burton B, are always resentful that working class folk can produce great art -  they think we should all be down on our knees giving our masters a good shoe shine - and any extra's!

Socialism was and is your salvation - and dont you forget it boy!

BB, can't see the harm in posting my admiration for one of the greatest anti-war songs ever written:


Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile 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 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

chorus: Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound 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 are you always 19?

Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

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 plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.

But here in this graveyard that'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 who were butchered and damned.

And I can't help but wonder, no 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, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

you really are a 1st class **** aren't you. get back to your ward the nurses will be out looking for you.

that's not to you tommy as you probably knew

dunlying,

Agree, - as was her 'Soldier Blue'  theme title for a film that changed many Americans perceptions of the post civil war US Army, General Custar & the like!

One Wore Blue The Other Wore Grey

but as a big liar how can anyone believe what you spew out northern liar

watch the latest news coming out if you think I am mad !!  See how the lies northern lad has been spewing out along with his political masters for 12 years.  Then call me a fruit cake.  He can't even get facts right about what he said about me so how can you trust him to be truthful about anything.  He simply dodges the issue, disappears for a few days hoping it will be forgotten then starts up his attention seeking new topics  ha ha

Only disagrement TT is that GFOF is not just one of the best, but the best war song ever written - & particularly that version!

yes have always liked this along with an xmas one by Mike Harding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaLGq3F2_4

you can make up lies about me northern liar and go and hide for a few days - but some don't forget on here

Listen, moisok, Burton B etc. The post is simply about a song defining war - that' it finished!

So take your silly & childish personal attacks to someone who actually gives a **** on what is after all an anonymous forum - and I was so abusive to moist sock, moist lips our whatever pathetic username is?

If you don't like it just pheck orf & try growing up - prats like you are the problem within this country!

no I am not letting you get away with telling lies about me all you ever do is name call and play the race card  - I love it if I am getting under your skin
you disappeared for a few days after being caught out lying hoping it would all go away
well it hasn't norther liar
what else have you been lying about
you want to see the news coming out right now about  the lies you and your masters have been telling us and now it is official

Anti war song causes chit chat war

WAR! - What Is It Good For?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

"Absolutely nothing.
Say it again!"

Sorry moisok but the thread isn't about you or I but about a war song.

Take your paranoa to where it might be best treated!

I murder hate, by field or flood,

Tho' glory's name may screen us;

In wars at hame I'll spend my blood,

Life-giving wars of Venus.

The deities that I adore,

Are social peace and plenty;

I'm better pleas'd to make one more,

Than be the death o' twenty.

As her maj has laid a wreath at their feet, I think this one is appropriate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBM0JBrOwo

on second thoughts

This is prob my fav ever anti war song

War Pigs - Sabbath

perfection - Tony Iommi at his best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo

Weren't "The Green Fields Of France"  and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" both written by Eric Bogle?

Definitely my favourite, off a superb anti war album


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s36u3_o6p_k

Has to be War War Is Stupid by Culture Club.
Because in actual fact people ARE stupid.

Shocking omissions are `Billy Don`t Be A Hero` and, my personal favourite, `Two Little Boys`.

'Two Little Boys' is actually an American Civil War song!

men they couldn't hang's version of gfof. magnificent .

"makes Lennon’s 'Happy Christmas War is Over'   sound mundane and ineffectual!"

I thought Lennon’s 'Happy Christmas War is Over' made Lennon’s 'Happy Christmas War is Over' sound mundane and ineffectual

"As the war in  Afghanistan finally draws to a close, - time to reflect!"

I think you mean "as Obama beats a politically expedient retreat from a war he supported leaving the Afghans govt to fight it out with Al Quaeda/The Taliban"

'Holiday in Cambodia' by The Dead Kennedys

Muntz Street 04 Jul 13 00:19 
Weren't "The Green Fields Of France"  and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" both written by Eric Bogle?

Yes Muntz, but TGFOF is actually called 'No Man's Land.' Both great songs, especially when it isn't Bogle singing them!

I am just reminding you of the lies you spout and the lies you have spouted about me and when challenged you are unable to provide the evidence - you disappeared for a few days hoping your embarrassment would eventually disappear with time - I am correcting that ha ha!!!

I remember attending a Labour party do I the mid eighties and Tony & Cherie Blair were there, - this before he became a leading figure.
At  the end everybody started singing including Cherie. I was stood just a few feet away and have to say she looks a lot better in the flesh than on TV or in the media.

“Fweeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandelaaaaaaa,
Fweeeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandeleeeeeer!
Fweeeeeeeeee.......................”

She tried to sing but sounded god damn awful,  bless her!

Have you ever been away-The Beautiful South
Paul Heaton-definitely one of the UK's top lyracists

Your `fight them on the beaches' speeches make me despair
'Cause if there's one thing we can guarantee is you will not he there
Tidying your room, making up your bed
And if your diary's full that week you'll send us lot instead
Send us lot instead, put a poppy by my lovers bed
We believe you when you say you've hurt your back
Have you ever been away
Where were you when we took Calais?
You don 't know, you don't care
You 're just glad that you wasn't there
Have you ever been away
I'm afraid your Rule Britannia mania doesn't ring so true
If I was captain of the waves I'd turn the gun on you
Any last requests before you join dead?
I'll crap into your Union Jack and wrap it round your head
Wrap it round your head, take a look at all the blood we've shed
We'll believe you when you say it was worth it
Liberate the streets of Europe, give our kids a chance
Give them Beaujolais by tap and cheap day trips to France
But you have never seen or smelt this ungodly death
It's like the stench of roasted lamb upon your father's breath

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

The band played waltzing Matilda and the Eve of Destruction.

The one by Boy George i think, can't remember the title, goes like this.

War War is stupid
and the people are stupid
love means nothing
in some strange quarters.

I've seen Eric Bogle several times, he's a great songwriter and he told a great story about No Man's Land/Green Fields of France. He said that, around the time of the Iraq war, Tony Blair had been written to by a young girl who was worried that the country would go to war. He wrote back saying that his favourite anti-war poem was No Man's Land, which was written by Eric Bogle 'who died during World War 1'

The Men They Couldn't Hang did my fav version of The Green Fields Of France

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6OzLJrS2k