11 - The Green Fields Of France

[@mickdunne981]

❤ same here in ireland

[@Canichenoir]

We had to read this song as a poem in English Class. When the teacher played the song, we all froze. There was many tears and no one spoke the rest of the class

[@clairey6407]

That was so moving. Incredibly beautiful and sad.

[@johnhareuk]

Excellent song and played beautifully too. The song has become very popular - probably because a fine UK band, The Men They Couldn't Hang, recorded it in the 1980s on their debut album Night Of A Thousand Candles.

[@andyallan2909]

Saw them live so many times. The sixties and the seventies were great for real music - didn't appreciate what a wonderful time it was creatively until it was all gone. Corries, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Runrig, etc. Such a pity for today's youngsters, no real music, just posers who can't sing using autotune and other electronic tricks.

[@MarkMaysey]

Beautiful voices singing a well written song. Thanks for sharing.

[@eckyhen]

By far the best version of this beautiful song. Surely one of the best anti-war songs ever written

[@setagates]

Wonderful rendition of a very touching song.

[@zlatychlp]

such a sad song

[@nbenefiel]

This is one of the best anti war songs ever.

[@wfuller1907]

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

[@azalea66]

WOO.FELL

[@donduncan5883]

Eric Bogle is one of our great lyricists - sadly under-recognised.