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09 Nov 10 - 04:56 AM (#3027383) Subject: rememberence day From: acegardener What is your favourite song for rememberence day. I like this one On your maypole green see the winding morris men Angry Alfie, Bill and Ken waving hankies, sticks and boots - all the earthen runes Standing at the crease the batsman takes a look around The boys are fielding on home ground The steeple sharp against the blue - when I think of you Sam and Andy, Jack and John Charlie, Martin, Jamie, Ron Harry, Stephen, Will and Don Matthew, Michael - on and on We will remember them remember them, remember them We will remember them remember them, remember them Time has slipped away The summer sky to autumn yields A haze of smoke across the fields Let's up and fight another round and walk the stubbled ground When November brings the poppies on Remembrance Day when the vicar comes to say 'May God bless them, every one Lest we forget our sons' We will remember them remember them, remember them We will remember them remember them, remember them Easy but effective little song to learn and perform, I expect the chords and such should be easy to find on any knopfler search. |
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09 Nov 10 - 05:05 AM (#3027387) Subject: RE: rememberence day From: Keith A of Hertford Home Lads Home. |
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09 Nov 10 - 05:33 AM (#3027409) Subject: RE: rememberence day From: GUEST,Sue As I've just replied on Facebook link: it's remembrance NOT rememberence - please do change title of this thread, it really makes me wince, which is probably not the reaction you're wanting! And in reply, the hymn 'I Vow to thee my Country', although I confess that's really because of Holst's wonderful tune. ---------------------Done. JoeClone---------- |
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09 Nov 10 - 05:54 AM (#3027423) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: acegardener As I've just replied on Facebook link: it's remembrance NOT rememberence - please do change title of this thread, it really makes me wince, which is probably not the reaction you're wanting! Do you know for a minute there, I thought you was addressing some one who give a damn! |
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09 Nov 10 - 05:58 AM (#3027428) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,^&* Do you know for a minute there, I thought you was addressing some one who give a damn! Naah--- she's addressing the ones who give a dam. |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:20 AM (#3027444) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Jeri I like the Knopfler song, but it's a bit confusing to me (probably cultural). Keith, I also like the Cicely Fox Smith/Sarah Morgan "Home, Lads, Home". Dick Gaughan's "Childhood's End". For a while, things seemed a bit more hopeful. |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:30 AM (#3027453) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Jeanie "Needle and Thread" by Henry Clements (=Mudcatter HenryClem). The lyrics are here on Mudcat - and it's on one of Tom Bliss's CDs. Not a Remembrance Day song in the usual sense. It brings home the ongoing reality of what going to war means. It's a White Poppy, rather than a Red Poppy song. - jeanie |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:33 AM (#3027456) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Waddon Pete "Silver Queen" by our own Jerry Rasmussen..... Best wishes, Peter |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:37 AM (#3027459) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Waddon Pete There's also 'Afternoon in August' written by Anthony John Clarke. There is a thread running on this song at the moment. Do give it a listen! Best wishes, Peter |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:43 AM (#3027462) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: breezy cf AJC thanks |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:51 AM (#3027471) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: breezy here |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:55 AM (#3027475) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: breezy Afternoon in August by Anthony John Clarke Time was I would not wear the poppy It belonged upon my parents' Sunday best I had no time for remembrance or nostalgia I found it easier to forget As a young boy I'd not watch the old man marching Or ask about the medal on his chest Chorus But that afternoon in August When you drove me out to Arnhem I saw Portland Stone and Hero At its very very best please check out the entire song on you tube if you have time peace |
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09 Nov 10 - 08:10 AM (#3027501) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Rob Naylor I tend to do "John Condon" at this time of year. I *know* that JC was most likely 19 rather than 14 when he died, and that the body in his grave is probably that of a 34 year old from a different regiment, but the song still "resonates" with me. |
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09 Nov 10 - 08:10 AM (#3027502) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Square the Circle May I suggest Vimy by Canadian, Tanglefoot. "Raise your flask, aim your rifles high" |
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09 Nov 10 - 09:43 AM (#3027561) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,ruairiobroin We tend to remember several A nice peaceful one from 1970 Go home you Bums, moving on to The Men behind the Wire, from 1971, Quite a few about the Bloody Sundays, You'd have a lot less to remember if your German kings and queens and their cousins' armies had all stayed where they belonged. On the eighteenth day of November , Outside the town of Macroom. The Tans in their big Crossley Tenders Were making their way to their doom But the boys of the column were waiting With handgrenades primed on the spot And the Irish Republican Army Made shite of the whole fucking lot |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:25 AM (#3027584) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: bubblyrat "If you want to see the Colonel, I know where he is"....... etc. |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:40 AM (#3027597) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "Tommy's Lot", by Graeme Miles. "Whitsun Dance", Trad/John Austin Marshall Don T. |
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09 Nov 10 - 11:01 AM (#3027611) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Van Men Behind the Wire would be a most inapropriate song for Armistice day. Unless you are an Northern Irish Rebublican who admires the antics of the Provos in the Sixties/Seventies. As far removed from the concept of the Remembrance Day Service as you can get. To compare a bunch of thugs killing women and children in the name of,not freedom, but to join up with a country that doesn't want them as distinct from young men who met the enemy face to face to ensure we would not be governed by Fascists verges on the obscene. |
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09 Nov 10 - 11:29 AM (#3027638) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Lanfranc "Standing in Line" from June Tabor's album "Apples" "The Statue" and "La Colombe" by Jacques Brel "Lilli Marlene" because it was sung by both sides "D-Day Dodgers" because my late father was one Alan |
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09 Nov 10 - 11:47 AM (#3027648) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Bounty Hound Probably stating the obvious, but no-one has mentioned it yet, Eric Bogle, Green Fields of France. Or the Steve Knightly song 'The Keeper' Or for a different point of view, how about John Richards 'The Deserter' |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:01 PM (#3027655) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Liane I immediately thought of Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'," even though he may have written it for ANZAC Day (25 April). It's the most powerful song I can think of about the first World War. |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:15 PM (#3027660) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Sooz I usually sing Mike Harding's "Accrington Pals" around Remembrance Day. It is about the Somme but I think it fits well. |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:19 PM (#3027664) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Young Buchan Tommy's Lot is by Dominic Williams, not Graeme Miles. |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:24 PM (#3027669) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Ann N The Harvey Andrews song 'Margarita' always reminds me of my lost great-uncle, killed and never found in one of the early battle of WW1 Margarita Harvey Andrews |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:29 PM (#3027673) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Terry McDonald I shall sing Jim Hanlon's 'Remembrance Day' and John McCusker's 'Will I See Thee More?' at Wimborne on Thursday |
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09 Nov 10 - 01:00 PM (#3027689) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Young Buchan There's a simple little cross out at Mons; Just a simple little cross out at Mons. There's a little heap of stones that stands above the bones Of Private William Jones, out at Mons. And the cross is just a simple soldier's gun, With the business end still pointing to the sun. There's a bayonet 'cross the top, and it doesn't look a lot; But now that's all he's got out at Mons. And there are no pretty flowers on the grave; And there is no fine memorial to the brave. He's a hero so they say - but he's thrown his life away For fourteen pence a day, out at Mons. I found it amongst some music hall material. It was performed about 1919 (I think as a recital rather than a song) by a female performer whose name I have regretably lost. |
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09 Nov 10 - 01:05 PM (#3027694) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: olddude Here is one I wrote, such as it is ... memorial day I think the best is Kendall doing "and the band played waltzing Matilda" |
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09 Nov 10 - 01:41 PM (#3027708) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,mg Leaves of Grass by Gordon Lightfoot is quite nice...If I were free to speak my mind..Tim Rush I think??? Last Halloween in France..Fires of Dieppe?? Calais I think...Banks of the Maury?? Fleurs of the Forest played on pipes...Long long trail awinding reminds people...mg |
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09 Nov 10 - 01:56 PM (#3027715) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,selby the antelope by Mick Ryan and sung by him spine tingling |
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10 Nov 10 - 09:28 AM (#3028277) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Sailor Ron Les Sullivan's two sngs 'Menine Gate', and 'Flowers of nomans land', O & don't forget the sailors who died his haunting 'Jutland'. |
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10 Nov 10 - 12:09 PM (#3028384) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Mudcatter Barry Taylor's Return Of The Unknown Soldier is one that I would pick: Return Of The Unknown Soldier |
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10 Nov 10 - 12:20 PM (#3028393) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Also credit to Steve S. Kelly for the above. |
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10 Nov 10 - 04:20 PM (#3028643) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Van Perhaps a bit of thread creep. Alocal steam train preservation society have just completed the restoration of the coach that brought the body of the unknown soldier from france to England. |
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10 Nov 10 - 04:37 PM (#3028655) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Big Mick There are so many elements to this question, especially for those that have served and lost friends. But one that always comes to mind for me is Terry Kelly's "Pittance of Time". I love the fact that it doesn't make pronouncements about motives, but rather the cost of war, and the price that many payed. Sometimes we blame warriors for war, when often they are just young people doing a duty they feel they have to do, sometimes for patriotic reasons, sometimes for economic reasons, sometimes just because they were searching and ended up there. Regardless of the motive, the price was paid and we need to take the moment to remember and reflect. God be good to them all. All the best, Mick |
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10 Nov 10 - 04:58 PM (#3028672) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: mg ich hatt einen kameraden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RVSfltrmbU&feature=fvsr click which says it all...another song never needs to be written in my opinion but I am glad if they are. mg |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:20 PM (#3028702) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Q (Frank Staplin) Ich hatt'- excellent images on that one. The best song of the war. Another linked below, because it has the words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpM8OPixds&feature=related |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:30 PM (#3028710) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: ragdall Many years ago I taught my Grade 3 students this song to sing at the Remembrance Day Assembly. (As everyone "fought for peace" it seemed appropriate.) I was pleased to find it is still being sung in the schools here at Remembrance Day Assemblies. Last Night I Had The Strangest DreamJohn Denver singing it on YouTube. rags |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:27 PM (#3028764) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Commander Crabbe Try this one. Thiepval* By Micca, May 2002 Its Halloween midnight in the low lands of Flanders A cold pale fog on the land it is spread And out of the mist, come a marching and singing Long gaunt files of men near a hundred years dead They stand, parade order, by the building at Thiepval And at the command each steps up and stands tall And receives in his turn from the ghost Colour Sergeant His name rank and number removed from the wall Their spectral Officer call the dismissal And grey NCOS give each man his paybook They salute and depart from the grim fields of Flanders Without a glance sideways or a backward look They march away and their singing is fading But long before dawn their home places they've found And finally back, after nearly a century Each man with relief can sink into home ground And all over Blighty their names are erasing From column, memorial and empty tomb The lost and the missing that have no known resting place Returning to lie in their dark native womb And now here at Thiepval there stands a cold monument Blank and unmarked made of pale Portland stone Because all the men it was made to memorial Have all returned home, to sleep still with their own "There's a long, long trail a winding into the land of my dreams Where nightingales are singing and a pale moon gleams" CC |
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11 Nov 10 - 03:54 AM (#3029057) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Keith A of Hertford Bogle's NO Man's Land is a fine song but not suitable for Remembrance I would suggest. I regard it as patronising and insulting to the dead of WW1 to say that they knew not why they were fighting and that they died in vain. Similarly the Waltzing Matilda song that asks why they are marching. |
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11 Nov 10 - 04:06 AM (#3029065) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Phil Edwards Jon Boden agrees with bubblyrat, and I think I do too. |
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11 Nov 10 - 04:20 AM (#3029075) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST Ben Campbell's (words from a poem by Graeme Searl) 'Song of lost skies' |
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11 Nov 10 - 04:57 AM (#3029101) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Lizzie Cornish 1 For me it will always be Reg Meuross's beautiful song about Harry Farr, a young soldier shot at dawn. It's called '...and Jesus Wept' and it touched my soul so deeply the first time I heard it, a few years back. Mike Harding has called this song one of the best he's ever heard concerning WW1. I agree. It moved me so much I made this page: "...and Jesus Wept' by Reg Meuross - The true story of Harry Farr If you open that link, please scroll down to the 'friends' section, then click on the wonderful page for dear Harry Patch.. It's beautiful. Reg singing '..and Jesus Wept' - Youtube |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:52 AM (#3029282) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: G-Force 'Remembrance Song' by Jake Thackeray. It's remarkable for being so different from what he's usually known for. |
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11 Nov 10 - 10:13 AM (#3029297) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Liane "Bogle's NO Man's Land is a fine song but not suitable for Remembrance I would suggest. I regard it as patronising and insulting to the dead of WW1 to say that they knew not why they were fighting and that they died in vain. Similarly the Waltzing Matilda song that asks why they are marching." Not to cause trouble here, and certainly no disrespect meant to the soldiers of World War I (who included my mother's father), but we remember that terrible war in part precisely because it was fought for reasons that were not always clear and because it accomplished so little. Instead of being "the war to end all wars," it set the stage for World War II, while essentially wiping out a generation of young European men. "The Waltzing Matilda song" is about Gallipoli, which, historians generally agree, was a badly-planned disaster for both sides. All right, off my soap box!--I realize that this is a forum for music, not history. |
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11 Nov 10 - 10:41 AM (#3029320) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Gozz I'm with Liane (and a few others) on the "Band Played Waltzing Matilda" suggestion. I did it one year on this date at a folk club and it seemed to all the more powerful a song for the singing on that day. Another suggestion would be "The Old Barbed Wire" which and old friend of mine used to sing up in North Devon. |
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11 Nov 10 - 01:43 PM (#3029543) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,keith A Old Barbed Wire has already been mentioned, and I agree. It is an authentic song of the war rather than a modern song written from a late 20th Century perspective. |
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11 Nov 10 - 02:12 PM (#3029584) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Lizzie Cornish 1 'Lay Me Low' - Coope Boyes & Simpson - Youtube 'Only Remembered' - CB&S |
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11 Nov 10 - 02:35 PM (#3029602) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: Singing Referee Guest at 4:20am was me! |
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11 Nov 10 - 03:27 PM (#3029659) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: John MacKenzie Dancing At Whitsun It's fifty long springtimes since she was a bride But still you may see her at each Whitsuntide In a dress of white linen and ribbons of green As green as her memories of loving The feet that were nimble tread carefully now As gentle a measure as age do allow Through groves of white blossom by fields of young corn Where once she was pledged to her true love The fields they stand empty, the hedges grow free No young men to tend them or pastures go see They have gone where the forests of oak trees before Have gone to be wasted in battle Down from the green farmlands and from their loved ones Marched husbands and brothers and fathers and sons There's a fine roll of honour where the maypole once stood And the ladies go dancing at Whitsun There's a straight row of houses in these latter days Are covering the downs where the sheep used to graze There's a field of red poppies, a wreath from the Queen But the ladies remember at Whitsun And the ladies go dancing at Whitsun It is relevant, although it mentions Whitsun, it's about the widows and girl friends, of those who never returned from the green fields of France. I love this song, and sing it whenever I feel like it. No point waiting till the correct time, to sing a good song, is there? |
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11 Nov 10 - 03:31 PM (#3029664) Subject: RE: Remembrance day songs From: GUEST,Gail My favourite Eric Bogle song is 'All the Fine Young Men' but I'm inclined to agree with Keith A that today's not the day for those songs. Liane says "we remember that terrible war in part precisely because it was fought for reasons that were not always clear and because it accomplished so little." Well yes and no. All the fine young men may well have been misled and betrayed but that doesn't diminish their personal loyalty, courage and desperation when faced with fear and horror. That's what moves me on November 11th, not the merits/demerits of particular wars/policies and that's why, just for one day, my favourite song isn't the right one. |