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

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

'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"

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

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.

that's not to you tommy as you probably knew

One Wore Blue The Other Wore Grey

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

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

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

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!

Anti war song causes chit chat war

"Absolutely nothing.
Say it again!"

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.

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

Definitely my favourite, off a superb anti war album


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

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

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

"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"

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 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!