Rest in Peace, Billy, Rise with Honour, comrade.

The interview on Mid West Radio with Gerry including him singing this and some of his other songs live in the studio accompanied purely by guitar was outstanding. A great station so good at promoting matters in Mayo and local artists. Listening over in Scotland daily this song is so well written when listened to is a respectful tribute to the ultimate sacrifice made by Private Kedian.

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A lovely tribute to PTE Billy Kedian RIP To his comrades, neighbours and friends thank you all for this memorial . A wonderful tribute to Billy , Gerry Carney.

Thank you so much Gerry for this wonderful tribute

Thank you for this beautiful song. Respect to all my comrades who served in the cause international peace. RIP all those who passed away. They will never be forgotten ✊

A wonderful heartfelt tribute to Billy. 🙏 Excellent vocals and lyrics. Well done, Gerry another classic from your pen. ✍️

A wonderful tribute to Billy ? and all the UN forces and their brave young comrades who never came home !

Congratulations Garry well done fantastic 👏

Love listening to this while eating some ass

Very good song very well written well done Gerry

That is a really a beautiful song, and the voice is also outstanding, He should front a band he is well above average .....

Paddy that’s my name!

Great song!

Beautiful song love it so much.. Thank you 😊

I listen to this song often,as someone who was lucky enough to have good people round me when I lived in England,I know many who have fallen by the wayside,thankfully I was able to move home,

My father is a Kildare man who met My mother in the Galti. What a song they both love it too !

Love the song, I was that paddy

I love this song.

Thats our dad

Beautiful song

As someone who lived away this song will always be special to me, so many still for one reason or another will be alone this Christmas n this song always reminds me how lucky I was to be able to return to my homeland,

I Love this Fella xxx

Lovely song so sad for all those who had to go to foreign shores to work and never came home sang with such meaning well done Gerry

Love this man xx

Love this song. Think it is on par with Phil Colter's song, "The Town I Love So Well". It is a song that will have so much meaning to a lot of people that had loved ones forced to travel to England to find work in order to put food on the table. Well done Gerry, brilliant.

Loved this song so very true

wonderful song Gerry the best emigration song I know of..covers so many aspects of leaving home...this song was written with Gerrys uncle P.J.Kelly in mind. P.J. was killed on a building site accident in 1960s I was at his funeral in Bekan a very sad day.. There are many fine versions of this song but this is the original and the BEST...... Well done Gerry....

wonderful song Gerry the best emigration song I know of..covers so many aspects of leaving home...this song was written with Gerrys uncle P.J.Kelly in mind. P.J. was killed on a building site accident in 1960s I was at his funeral in Bekan a very sad day.. There are many fine versions of this song but this is the original and the BEST...... Well done Gerry....

Erwin Jentsch love this song

Such a beautiful song Gerry, you sing it lovely, great voice, love it. xx

i love this part it says,youre the rock!

he is a great Singer😏😏😌🙌😭😏😭🙇🙋😎

ceol bronach ach ceol alainn freisin.go raibh maith agat gerry

A lovely song, it was played on Monday at the funeral of my Uncle Paddy. The words fit perfectly to him and his life

love this song

Great Song Gerry Keep It Up Once Upon A Time That Was Me

Lovely Song xx

Beautiful!!

Yea, agreed with everything everyone said, I emmigrated in 1989 with 126 pounds and got of the bus and looked right and left and thought Ok which direction should I go at Victoria Coach station in London - only a young girl - its just happening all the time but thank God our young people are least going abroad with an education now. Well done Gerry - brilliantly captured

Great song Gerry very well done,also a sad song,I worked in Scotland and England in the 70's and 80's your song says it all.

Lovely Singer and Song xx

Fabulous song Gerry

Gerry this is a great song - may it bring you continued success. Mick Mc

Fantastic Song Gerry, caught you few times live and it you were superb. Well done and keep writing these great songs. everyone over 40 can relate to these and sadly those youngsters can now. Keep up the great work and don't worry about the begrudgers

This is a wonderful song about the men forced to emigrate to foreign shores to survive the bad times in Ireland. God they worked hard and to dull the pain played hard too.

@pembrokeshire100 as you can see from the comments, you are pretty much alone in your opinion, but of course you are entitled to it. i am proud to have written this song, and it has changed my life. it is dedicated to my late uncle pj kelly, who was killed in a trench on a building site in england in 1964 at the age of 21 years. thanks for going to the trouble of posting your comment, its sbout the only negative one that i have recieved and it doesn.t bother me in the least

@98dannylfc Not just thumbs up,i remember this time,there were not even take away signs.It was a very hard time Ialways found that sunday was the worst time.this song tells it all,thanks for posting it

great song Gerry well done keep it up...

Love the song!