Bang Upon The Big Drum

[@ME-hs1ie]

"we marched into Kabul and we took the Bala Hisar and we made them to respect the British Soldier" 🇬🇧💪

[@ryanbennett7989]

We should of genocided the bunch of bastards

[@ME-hs1ie]

@@ryanbennett7989 Would've been one of the only justifiable genocides in History, and when we got the chance we didn't even take it.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Jesus Fucking Christ Gentleman.

[@ME-hs1ie]

@@AbrahamLincoln4 lol. I was taking the piss. But Ryan seems to be dead serious 😂😂.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@n1uk I slightly agree with some of your grievances toward the taliban but i am also slightly horrified at the same time lol.

[@louisiananlord17]

Shout out to the boys in 1899 who kept their spirits flowing with a song in Afghan territory! God bless our British allies! To the lads and men! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@louisiananlord17]

@user-fi1ql3wt4b The Tirah Campagin was a British victory in 1898, but Lord Sandemann's Baloach campaign was indecisive around India in 1899. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[@anonmouse1481]

Centuries later and this song still slaps.

[@louisiananlord17]

Do you mean decades later? This song came out literally a year before the 20th century started.

[@lyektho]

I last heard this song in a BBC documentary on the Afghan Wars ... 30 years ago. It's stayed with me since, as all great marching songs do. My best memory of it is singing it with a classmate in an Italian restaurant in Singapore whilst four sheets to the wind. Wonderful.

[@donaldcarletonjr.9047]

We're with ye, Tho!

[@aidy6000]

Nice one!

[@joshualeong7894]

Modified the lyrics a bit and sang it in my basic military training in Singapore army.

[@lyektho]

@@donaldcarletonjr.9047 I remember singing British Grenadiers with you on a freezing, blustery morning somewhere in New England year and years ago and it made me forget how ridiculously cold we were. Fancy seeing your comment here after all this time!

[@Simping4cats]

This song is so catchy and infectious I found my self singing it while on guard duty... and the song doesn't lie! It does keep the spirits going!

[@peterforden5917]

you wouldnt be the first Tommy to sing on guard duty, my dad did, his dad and so did I! lol

[@ryanbennett7989]

The experience of soldiers before and aft will keep our borders safe Up the Brits !

[@Xsilord]

God I love the accordion in songs like this! Really makes me love my country and it's history all the more.

[@schizoidboy]

Got to admit the accordion is the most underrated instrument of all times.

[@SweeturKraut]

When my son was a wee lad, I stayed up late nights up with him. This channel helped through those nights.

[@Stahl_und_Eisen]

epic

[@patrioticarchive]

Jolly good song! 🇬🇧

[@rumdrinkinpirate6107]

I picture my Great Grandad singing this while fighting the ottomans in Mesopotamia 😁

[@alanstill1163]

keep marching lad. God Save the Queen you do us proud

[@helloandbye6070]

It was a king I think but, Whatever.

[@robbson2390]

@@helloandbye6070 Queen Victoria, so not a king.

[@jollyswashbuckler]

@@helloandbye6070 stfu

[@anne_frank_]

Man. 4 years on, not aimed at me and yet this is exactly what I needed to hear in order to keep myself stout hearted. Cheers to you lad, I hope the years following do you well and I do you proud throughout them.

[@EkkaDaWrecka1988]

Damn these songs are catchy.

[@auntyangie33]

Joshie Walker I know. I'll be singing this all week now I've listened to it.

[@kazumasatou1418]

Ah yes a classic British army song.

[@ME-hs1ie]

🇬🇧Ulster loves the big drum

[@nikkonichols]

There's no whiskey or champagne still we will keep our spirits flowing with a song boys 💪🏼🎶🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@TyBaker-zr2zj]

Music from 1920-1700 get me up in the morning istg

[@99IronDuke]

Love this stuff.

[@EEYore-py1bf]

It's pretty great.

[@grumpyoldfart4167]

One week with the BAOR 1983 Autumn Forge, God Bless the Men & Officers of The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars! I know that the Regiment has been amalgamated, but it lives in my heart & memory. Oh & remember the toast to the Greatest Soldier The Royal Navy ever produced, Uncle to Prince Charles; The Late Earl Mountbatten

[@davideddy2672]

grumpy old fart - you mean the filthy dirty kiddy fiddler Mountbatten ............

[@wasp6594]

My.brothers in law served with.QRIH about that time. Name of McMenemy.

[@Krushtykon]

Actually, 3 Mercian Regiment sing this song while out on ops. :)

[@priyaxo8116]

@@obi-wankenobi1233 So what?

[@heyheyhophop]

Misheard "And when I walked abroad all the pretty girls, they'd wink at me" => "And when I waked at brothel, the pretty girl would wink at me" :/

[@mikesull4637]

WHAT A CRACKING SONG LOVE IT FAB . NICE ONE LADS . GOD BLESS ENGLAND

[@PekkaEräreikä51]

Accidentally put hair conditioner to my armpits listening to this in the shower 🤦🏼‍♂️ Well, I guess those armpithairs need also to be proper clean and nice 🤷🏼‍♂️😂 Long live the king, 🇬🇧 And longer live the next one. 🤣🤣👍👍

[@richardcleveland8549]

This is another great tune for use as a segment in a quadrille of British marches and songs.

[@alexandersumarokov5901]

one of the bests

[@gladtobestillalive]

I really love this song.

[@joshpascual7539]

Man i love war songs

[@itsdyle9767]

This isn’t exactly war song In a way it’s the same kind of thing as Erika from Germany it’s just a song to keep up spirits and morale

[@joshpascual7539]

@@itsdyle9767 yea so its War Music

[@jtrrs0]

Great Story, Cheers from Mexico

[@johntaylor5605]

exellent

[@StoredMars]

Have you ever listened to "The Barrack Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling"?

[@ootah8896]

Logan Smith I have, aren't they great? I like 'Mandalay' the most.

[@StoredMars]

Ootah Definitely. I like all of them; "Bill 'awkins" is probably my favourite lol

[@ootah8896]

Logan Smith Yes, that one is very good too!

[@seanhartnett79]

I like the road to Mandalay.

[@auntyangie33]

Is anyone writing songs like this for the modern army?

[@paganphil100]

Angela Corcoran : Probably not, unfortunately. The present government would call it "racist".

[@mattattack6717]

I did ,my singing is awful but the lyrics are good

[@lauwai4life]

@@paganphil100 And would be deemed embarrassing for all the ladies present.

[@KLGroupUK]

This is fantastic!!

[@alanmontgomery2798]

brilliant

[@tonylea8296]

Fantastic 👊 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@OrlopRat42]

Lyrics added above.

[@talyannatal5969]

This is nice

[@1800aubrey]

I’m having trouble finding this cd to purchase online- does anybody know a vendor site that has it?

[@OrlopRat42]

As far as I know, there isn't a CD or other dgital version to be had. It was released on vinyl back in the 1970's and that's it

[@1800aubrey]

@@OrlopRat42 you posted this outstanding music a decade ago, and you’re fielding questions. Good on you. Well thanks for letting me know, that kind of makes sense. Guess I’ll have to get the LP- and a record player.

[@falcons1988]

Do you have the lyrics to this song? I am writing a commemorative piece for full symphonic band, recognising the 3rd Afghan war, I am looking at this song for its particular reference to Afghanistan. After listening carefully to the lyrics, they are quite poignant and deep, perhaps not that dissimilar to today.

[@DissidentMitch]

Long live Christian Civilization ✝️💪🏻

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Long live? Long dead, you mean.

[@OrlopRat42]

That's really interesting to know. Thanks much for the information.

[@sp4zticgoat315]

Hello

[@OrlopRat42]

@@sp4zticgoat315 Greetings

[@sp4zticgoat315]

@@OrlopRat42 I didn't know you were still active on youtube.

[@Viscount_Castlereagh]

Lets keep Northern Ireland and Scotland British! 🇬🇧

[@rudolfsbelozerovs7816]

Unfortunately the tories want to sell the union away down the river and its opposition Labour just blatantly admit that they hate the UK.

[@Genevasuggestions1]

WATP 🇬🇧🔴⚪️🔵

[@charlescrowell4981]

Kabul to kadihar, to set things rite in the eye of the russian bear.

[@theamericandream1296]

love this song!!!v

[@obi-wankenobi1233]

I love this! Can you upload Cheer Boys, Cheer from Crimea?

[@falcons1988]

Also are there any transcriptions of these songs? I am waiting for the book by Lewis Winstock to come.

[@legosoilder3621]

Keep in mind, I love this song and this channel... But I got here from a BennyTheJukebox video...

[@GlitchedBlox]

Uhhhhh...

[@SirPetterTheFirst]

WHY CANT PEOPLE CHECK THE INFO

[@alexandersumarokov5901]

👍🏻

[@LordWellington100]

think you could add the lyrics?

[@outpostraven]

What band is this?

[@Smile4theKillCam456]

The Druids

[@patricknorthrup7708]

Who performs these?

[@Anastasia-uj2bk4ml8p]

The Druids

[@mishamedvedev542]

Girls changing room: uggghhh i hate these uniforms, they make me look fat Bois changing room: *_VOLLY FIRE ON MY COMMAND!!!_*

[@Schattengewaechs99]

Such a stupid meme.

[@Pottatow]

Right proper song would make king George proud init 🥲

[@TheSeanoops]

#UncuckBritain 🇬🇧

[@thomasrhymer4017]

Didn't you lose this war?

[@Sparkera15]

Abu Meme Al Australi This is about the Second Anglo-Afghan War, which ended in a British military victory and Afghanistan entering the British sphere. Britain won every major battle and thoroughly defeated the Afghanis ending the graveyard of empire myth. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Afghan_War

[@cdp9544]

Ha Ha you lost!

[@AB0VETHALAW]

Nah you lost mate

[@priyaxo8116]

@@Sparkera15 The march into Kabul references the army of retribution that came to avenge the Jallabhad massacre.the British defeated the armies of Akbhar Khan and sacked the Kabul bazzar,the Indian sepoys committed atrocities to avenge their comrades,this took place in the first war.

[@GlitchedBlox]

@@Sparkera15 everyone took kabul, did they hold it?

[@kukenkarlsson3607]

The Taliban had it easier for sure

[@Vladyslav_Zubakha]

It would be nice if somebody did a #NATOwave remix of this song

[@pablocapotondo7703]

the gay pride march?

[@wigster600]

Nice Falklands you have there... mind if we keep them? You don't? Oh, you do, but you can't do anything about it. Screb.

[@kingbarryscott8664]

+Isla Soledad This march was probably sung by Marines on their way to the Falklands to kick your third world country's ass.

[@pablocapotondo7703]

King Barry Scott those guys on the hms sheffield were probably singing this song before they became in food for the fishes

[@kingbarryscott8664]

Isla Soledad Britain's the world fifth wealthiest nation, we don't need an empire. Deep decline? unemployment is getting lower. We're doing fine. Doing so well that we have do give your dum asses £225 Million in foreign aid in the last 20 Years.

[@pablocapotondo7703]

King Barry Scott "unemployment is getting lower" jajajaja. Sorry... Hahahaha