Irish Rebel Song - Sniper's Promise

A Sniper's Promise is an Irish Rebel Song, sung by Wolfe Tones
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This song is about Redemption, not 'bout war nor hate !!
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Ulead for the movie editing
Excerpts from Enemy At The Gates, by JJ Annaud, with Ed Harris and Jude Law
LYRICS
The night was icy cold I stood along
I was waiting for an army foot patrol
And when at last they came into my sight
I squeezed the trigger of my armalite
CHORUS
Oh mama, oh mama comfort me
For I know these awful things have got to be
But when the war for freedom has been won
I promise you I'll put away my gun.
A shot rang out, I heard a soldier cry
"Oh please don't leave me here alone to die"
I realized his patrol had run away
And left their wounded comrade for me to slay.
CHORUS
"There's nothing in this world I would not do
If there's mercy in your heart you'll let me live"
And in his eyes I saw a look of pain
As the mussel of my gun moved towards his brain.
CHORUS
The dawn was breaking as I reached my base
I will not forget the look on that boy's face
Fear, agony, and torment where all there
Oh but to your memory, mother, his life I spared.
CHORUS

[@Remorse3]

"There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destines as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally, and economically." --Right Honorable Bobby Sands, MP, 1954-1981

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

Truth!

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

Bobby Sands -An Angel sitting just above the sun waiting for us to come home! Love You son🍃🐉🍃🐉🍃🐉🍃

[@purebloodirishman9389]

Erin go bragh. Eire 32 and f the EU. God bless our people and rest in peace bobby and all of them before and more that followed for our right to be free and control our own destiny

[@somnathrudra4933]

India and Ireland both suffered from British Colonialism. We should stand unitedly against British Forces. Support Ireland from India. 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇪

[@thekid8100]

Savages but the boys with uniforms were mothers kids and heroes, they talk about people fighting for their country, these boys were fighting their village, town, county, brother sister mother father, life. I understand things are different now but none us lived through that shit or can really judge these peoples actions cos we are all soft looking back to a place or time we've never been. Good tune tho straight up.

[@RaymondDay719]

i am a retired soldier and i understand this song and it hits a dark and buried part of me. So all of you who want to take a life need to understand that once you go down that road and take a life you cant go back there is no rewind button in the real world.

[@philcav9891]

Raymond I hope you are well 1 love

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

The Irish never play the victim -Real Human Beings Blessed Be Ireland 🇮🇪 🐉💚🐉🤍🐉🧡 🇮🇪

[@UIsterIsEpic]

Dia shábháil Éire!

[@SuicideandHappiness]

This song is beautiful, its a rare song to be sang about the IRA and show that they too are people and have feelings. It shows the soft side of the "terrorists"(witch they are not) 5/5

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Is their any other similar ira songs?

[@lucaswelsh9020]

​@@micoolkidfilms3270 Joe Mcdonnel

[@felimdeegan1935]

I see where you are coming from when you say they are not terrorists but I don't think it is because they are not terrorists by definition but because we are not certain of how to define the word terrorist. By the British definition, the first battalion of the parachute regiment of the British army(the fellas sent to NI) are terrorists and so would the Turkish government with their attacks on the, so called terrorists, the YBS, their attacks on civilian infrastructure and they're assistants to ISIS. The IRA should be looked at as a kind of side effect. A mental state of a group of human beings, forced to the ends. I don't support the IRA nor do I believe they were right in many of their attacks. I simply believe it was inevitable that a Nationalist extremist group was bound to be formed because of the poor response of the British government and awful state the province was in in the years coming up to the troubles.

[@edglenntecson8292]

​@@felimdeegan1935decade's of british neglect, the potato famine was one

[@user-gd5dj2nj6c]

​@@micoolkidfilms3270Shoot to Kill

[@VALDIGNE]

Love and best wishes to the wonderful people of the Republic of Ireland. Your legacy is all over the World. Forza Eire

[@Bop_Bop_1970]

Fuck you we have no allies you fuck

[@andrewmell9872]

FREEDOM FIRST THEN PEACE!

[@lukecarpenter2754]

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

[@freeeire564]

Gay White Irish Protestant, Not for long, a United ireland is inevitable, and your not very British when you can’t have your own border, you can’t have your flag raised, you can’t march in some areas, you can’t be a soldier and be public about it, you can’t hold a government without power sharing the list goes on.... The free state has just as much influence as the UK does. Your children will live under the tricolor.

[@MikePenceEcksDee]

@@freeeire564 The population is more british now than irish anyways like how ostpreussen was german but now entirely russian

[@freeeire564]

Gurgle Mesh The demographics are changing, The nationalists are reproducing at a quicker rate than their unionist counterparts, Even if there is a unionists majority they are still living on stolen land and have no right to live there.

[@cuntasstaire6403]

@Straight White British Protestant get outta her ya kekistany nationalist, yeah ik who you are you piece of shit. Go back to Britain and fuck off out of my country.

[@Centoriun]

Gurgle Mesh that’s not true, in ulster it’s 54% catholic 46% protestant

[@BlueWolfStudios]

He doesn't kill the boy, he even says it in the song. "But in your memory mama his life I spared."

[@aoibhinnomahony7712]

He may be saying that to put his mother's mind at ease

[@juscoz3167]

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 His mother is dead (to your memory mama), she would know if he was lying. He saved the soldiers life

[@irishe-juicedirect6381]

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 The song is about a hero in his own country defending against a brutal crown force that wanted the whole world to bow to them. If he is only saying it to put his Mothers mind to rest, he is right. She would have been to hell and back in a war we did not ask for??

[@aoibhinnomahony7712]

@@irishe-juicedirect6381 I'm Irish and had multiple ancestors who fought against the British government. I know what the song is about get a grip

[@irishe-juicedirect6381]

@@aoibhinnomahony7712 WOW..... this was not a dig at you my friend! We are cut from the same cloth. I'm old enough to have dodged the bullets and bombs. I pray those days do not return.

[@celticlass32]

I love the Wolfe Tones..Beautiful song.. FREEDOM FOREVER ... SCOTLAND AND IRELAND AND CELTIC FC FOREVER IN MY HEART AND SOUL.XXX

[@jovanweismiller9996]

I'm not at all sure what clips of Jude Law as Vasily Zaytsev during the Battle Of Stalingrad have to do with Ireland, but OK, I guess.

[@BiblioAtlas]

It has the heart to suit the song. Makes me cry each time I see this vid.

[@willywonty2612]

Producers ineptitude. But has some empathetic correlation I suppose.

[@joanneleigh4542]

I know, right.

[@joanneleigh4542]

But yet, I come back, time and time again.

[@Democrities]

It’s completely unrelated, but it still kinda fits.

[@DeDerpyDerp_]

"Miss? Nah, warnimg shot" -Every soldier that has missed.

[@ShadowLion20]

Made me cry. Don't give a damn what context you put it in. All I hear is a man who, for the sake of his country, is fighting for it and promising he'll never hurt another soul once his country is free. Don't care if it's Irish, American, or whatever. It's all about the soul of the song not the context. I'm American with a mixbreed Euro heritage and Irish is prominent,

[@aoibhinnomahony7712]

They had gone in the mire to destroy us and our nation and down after them we had to go. Commander general tom Barry

[@jimtom4878]

Same here

[@wesbrannick8269]

Humanity is an absolute gift.

[@terencedoonan7598]

I was in holidays with my 4 kids in the south of ireland, great decent people , lovely scenery to be seen, plenty for the kids to see, better food in the south by far, great people out for the craic, and good pints of guinness, also good music, and the weather is a lot warmer compared to the black north

[@bigdom3810]

The movie in this is enemy at the gates btw

[@Liam2621]

i was raised in england and support irish people, theeres quite a few people like me, although not many

[@annemariekerrigan2011]

Beautiful 🇮🇪

[@KLARENDALTHEBEST]

i am dutch irish i love the irish

[@MrGreenPancake]

This song really wakes up ones "mercy" emotion

[@hippyjoe]

Over a hundred years now and young folks are still dying for their religion in some parts of Northern Ireland. I feel so heartbroken for Ireland.

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Northern Ireland reminds me of Bosnia

[@archusrtm6325]

Its not religion, its national liberation, there are catholics who collaborate with the imperialist british empire and there are anglicans who fought against the british. Its just that catholics are more likely to be pro independence where as anglicans are more likely to be pro-british due to anglicanism being a religion pushed upon the irish people by the british with it putting the king at the head of the church.

[@memekelly2639]

The British have a lot to answer for,

[@huntercleveland7950]

The British Government has a lot to answer for, as all Governments do.

[@honestlord]

well done comrade, the best army know what they are fighting for.. and they love what they know, viva the irish spirit

[@SassyRat]

What a beautiful song... thank the good lord for my Irish blood.

[@AssistantLeaflet]

hell of a down vote.

[@VenomousVitality]

- Beautiful song; I remember it done by Kathleen Largey as a child. No matter what you believe in, this melody and its words are heartbreaking! Thank you for this!

[@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC]

The Sniper in this Film was from GLASGOW!

[@Stardustger]

+Stargazer Nation™ 占星国家™ well kind of hard to find movies about irish snipers :P

[@PrvoBijeloPolje]

Enemy at the Gate, the movie about Stalingrad.

[@sonsoftheconstitutionmilit8179]

He was a German sniper...and the guy playing the German sniper is Ed Harris an American so where do u come with that he's from Glasgow???

[@elizabethdorchester5307]

he was confused os all

[@elizabethdorchester5307]

@be ny is that like the beef one or is that goulash

[@espelanza]

what a beautiful but sad song! i'm korean, far from Ireland. we were under japanese rule over 35yrs. i can feel the pain what irish people feel. i do have no idea about Ireland and IRA till i heard this song. then now, i know that Ireland will be free and english must have to pay the debt in blood.

[@purebloodirishman9389]

A thank you brother 13 years later.Freedom is a God given right be blessed my friend

[@southerndreamer1984]

Erin Go Braugh! Thanks for the video, great work, a masterpiece!

[@polocathmhaoil9141]

I love this ballad and the footage from Enemy at the gates was brilliantly edited to fit in with the lyrics.

[@wulf2235]

i want to go back to the land where my family is from!

[@purebloodirishman9389]

Come back brother

[@josso295]

Did you ever make it home?

[@Eireann.]

​@@josso295I guess not

[@FreeUlster]

it is strange, but gives a beautiful song a lovely touch

[@madrigalblue]

Beautiful. What a great pairing.

[@mbgfaesyt]

ilove dis 1 it brings tears to my eyes everytime i hear it tanks for the chance to see it again

[@ReviewSesh]

If you had to pick a sniper movie to cut this song to, it would have to be this. Even though there are no Irish in this movie, I think it relays the feelings of the sniper well. Thanks for the upload! Good job!

[@502deth]

including reserves, the usa ranks 7th in size of the military at about 3 million troops. all 7 of the countries above that, together, add up to about 37 million. in 1995 the atf estimated that there about 233 million firearms in the hands of private citizens. and im sure the number has grown since then.

[@aoibhinnomahony7712]

Tyrants are made of flesh and bone

[@Sungkawa]

nice song ! My respect for the IRA

[@rebcanirish]

You are a better man than I. I salute you. I've met a lot of old vets myself. It's newer casualties that had me spouting off. Can't say much more.

[@2376MD]

suberb subtlety - I love this song this all my heart Maurice

[@muilleangearr]

"In conclusion, we feel that althought the population has been diminished in so remarkable a manner by famine and has been decreasing, the results are, on a whole, satisfactory" Speaker, House of Commons, 1851.

[@purebloodirishman9389]

Wow who said that

[@WraithF1N]

I love this song :)

[@carlomariabezzi8460]

La canzone è strepitosa, ma il film di più: è lo splendido "Il Nemico Alle Porte" di J. J. Annaud, con Jude Law e Ed Harris, sull'assedio di Stalingrado.

[@SPennell]

Nice song...excellent video production

[@martinmcdonagh1669]

one of the best IRA songs ever

[@badealer]

sad beautiful song IRELAND BELONGS TO IRISHMEN

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

Truth!

[@mrbonedigger]

super song. brings a tear to my eye every time i hear it. but it is an apologetic song , none the less

[@razraz4372]

Best i.r.a snipper came from america he was a gentleman who fought for the cause do in prison never forgotten

[@atlas184]

video is taken from Enemy at the Gates, thats set in the USSR.

[@blakemurp8582]

Is that movie about vasily zaitzev and his sniper battle against colonel hoffseter

[@Atalaclys]

Yeap..

[@irishdc9523]

Yes, Enemy at the Gates.

[@PanzerAngriff]

Yes; a sniper-duel that is entirely fabricated.

[@Sicarius089]

2:32 he just got a no scope.... vut seriously i haven't been able to find this video for ages! now i'm relieved it's still on here. Great video

[@ceevo10]

nice song

[@jamesgrewar461]

Tiocfaidh àr là 🇮🇪 Thig ar la 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fe ddaw ein dydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@danny100ization]

wars over,,,,

[@josephcherry4863]

Fuck you.

[@danny100ization]

,

[@josephmcgonagle9002]

Xjism, you are a very silly person. Very very silly. Ask any person in Northern Ireland with grandparents from Ireland what they want. They will want the Brits to leave and take their flag with them. Go on. Ask

[@qaddad9757]

xjxism car So, it was alright when England came over and forced us to live like they did and if we disobeyed it would be to the gallows? Even worse coming up to the War of Independence and during the war, where they shot people who they THOUGHT were part of the I.R.A, with no evidence more than they were a Paddy. And then again during the Troubles, being forced into prison without trial under assumption AGAIN. You tell me what's wrong with that, and how the Irish are wrong for responding with the same oppression and hate they showed us for over 800 years.

[@malcolmwilkinson6845]

noobsmasher123 clown.

[@J.Sparks762x39]

that was fucking deep

[@m96c40]

Exactly. As the gentleman who posted the song pointed out : It's about redemption. It was written by someone who doesn't advocate war, but only did what he had to do.

[@stained18]

what a good song

[@Gommerell]

That was a good film "Enemy at the Gates " , great opening scene wit the wolf , It was the same French director who did , "the Bear "

[@rebcanirish]

@MrMickroach Down to the wire, heart felt and true. Well said.

[@fuckthequeenupthera1]

the south armagh sniper (sas) haha was a serious buzz. used to get them from up to a mile away!

[@ArticleTen]

Freedom only comes though Christ. For those of us who fought and killed, freedom can only come through Christ all other attempts fall far short.

[@computerrage]

A welcome return to "bollocks on a bulldog" and to "plastic filth". Well done Mick for spelling both correctly! (just missing a space between 'on' and 'a')!

[@kountershock777JS]

This was an amazing movie

[@freakette84]

all jack does is avoid questions. hes not that bright! hes happy to rant and rave and huff and puff but ask him to answer a stright forward question and youll be waiting a good long time!

[@biddy935]

a true song

[@TheOriginalMoc]

my dads fav song :)

[@eileenomeara5781]

My late brother use to sing miss him so much💔

[@daviddanagher4392]

Heavy stuff mush

[@francescospisani3533]

"Io vo gridando: pace, pace, pace!" (Petrarca)

[@roor06]

Luv it ... Peace in the valley .. Whatever It takes ...

[@IrishHitman79]

lol i can Remember a IRA sniper who was going around with a barret light 50. good old one shot Paddy he sure didnt miss.

[@bungwohlio]

It’s all emotional and so on. But I would have never felt mercy for germans and would keep shooting till I’m out of ammo.

[@tc2664]

They would've done the same so you are all good

[@cuhulainsblood]

The Germans were defending Christianity the truth is on their side. It took me a few years to figure it out. Now look at Europe total invasion.

[@Mamboro17]

great song !

[@TheDirtdealer]

4TH Gen in country...My Irsh brother.s...Pray For US!

[@kewlboy567]

We all know what its about but it goes with the song. They're are not many movies about a lone sniper in a war that are modern.

[@soleary0339]

To the tyrant the sniper rings of justice, to the just man a sniper brings vigilance. a sniper can bring great victory or awful defeat.

[@Urdalibertine]

Some stories should never leave the field.

[@agnesquinn760]

Beautiful song ❤

[@airsoftingbuffalo]

A primary difference between airsoft firearms and BB guns is that airsoft firearms use 6mm or 8mm plastic and have muzzle velocities of less than 700 FPS which is generally considered safe in a controlled environment, while BB guns utilize metal ammunition and shoot at higher velocities (over 1000 FPS) making them unsuitable for gaming or training purposes.

[@LULUNIAMH]

mabey but this past is very hard to forget !!!!!

[@patrickshoes]

Solidarity....from Doncaster

[@Cathain78]

Admiral William Brown - Las Islas Malvinas Argentina! The Irish still support you Argentina :-)

[@MikalleM99]

i love this song my bf told me his friend sung this

[@skittification]

@MrMickroach I like the analogy, nice one.

[@erickeckberg]

If you've never had to fire on another man in war, you just might not know what you're talkin about. Footage is from Enemy at the Gates (WWII Stalingrad), lyrics concern an IRA sniper, songs about the same thing, once they're dead and you're home, most everything else fades with time, 'cept the fact that you're alive and they're not. The older you get, the more you think about it, trust me.

[@shippox3]

when i go to war and if i dont make it back..this will be my resting song..

[@SponzyParadox]

I visit Vets who don't have family or have family that can't or won't come. I met two, one was from Vietnam, the other is from Korea, I am not sure they would know that. However I really don't ask them much about what they did, just listen to what they want to tell me, maybe play some cards. It is the least I can do. And you really need to chill, I only said the movie fits the song guys legit that was it.

[@computerrage]

I'll let you know if it ever gets down to that!

[@DobermansRock]

I love me Armalite AR-180 Widow Maker... Because of what it stands for...

[@skullkrusher381]

what a song

[@rayomalone]

Vasilji Zaitsev was from the eural mountains 1000's of miles away from finland

[@Aethyrs]

i like the video, with this song,

[@rayomalone]

ders goog footage in micheal collins or the wind that shakes the barely

[@DjLethal173]

Unfortunatley when songs of this nature are posted on here, so goes with them comments from either side of the conflict. I prefer just o enjoy the music. Class song all the same!

[@stuntmand778]

how could you hate this song

[@psullivan0525]

I love this song and the movie that goes with it i want to see it know

[@biahtyaum]

@slapshot37GNR thank you,, bout time another irish guy had the balls to stand up for our freedom fighters :)

[@ArcayneOSullivan]

Well Skeeter, you tell me where you are and I'll see if it fits into my upcoming travel plans. We can have a very different kind of conversation then. If you are up for it, that is.

[@DrunkCox]

im an american but my blood is thick with the irish, i have every right to be here.

[@patrickshoes]

God willing we will!

[@RaymondDay719]

I am in Colorado Springs, Colorado but you knew that already it's on my profile for all the world to see unlike you I have no reason to be afraid

[@shanemaurer971]

i love this song!

[@Joanne85308]

I guess maybe I own too many guns, but in Arizona there is virtually a free call to arms. There are so many places we have to let lead loose, as in ranges out in the Sonoran Desert. #AvidShooter

[@skittification]

Is it the Road Runner, is it Wiley Coyote? No, it's Bigshoes Littledick! RUN FORREST RUN BOY !

[@josparkes1]

Sad and melancholy little song !