Johnny I hardly knew'ya Irish national

[@michaelmarsden1908]

The wonderful singer here is the great, much-loved Cornish baritone Benjamin Luxon, accompanied by the late Bill Crofut on banjo.

[@stacyblue1980]

Thank you for that. I wanted to know who these fellas are. Beautiful. Just truly beautiful version.

[@ndirish4569]

And now sadly the *late* Benjamin Luxon

[@AXZ1974]

Perfect pitch, perfect expression... Even the word mesmerizing I fear is not enough to describe this.

[@catedoss1556]

This is the song of my people. My grandfather sang this version to his children, my father sang it to us as a lullaby, and I did the same. Now I’m just hoping for a grandbaby to continue the tradition. Thank you.

[@viktorvarga5867]

everybody liked that

[@АлександрСимонов-ц8м]

I like it very much! From Russia

[@fatavv]

@@АлександрСимонов-ц8м I'm from Ukraine, and you and your hord made this song actual for us... Be damned forever..

[@iamalreadyd3ad]

@@fatavv please, don't multiply the hate in the world. I doubt, that the person who likes this song supports this war. Sure, if he did - he's an dumbass. The goverment of Russian Federation hates equally ukranian and their own people as well.

[@amanmustlearn]

Beautiful but so sad people need to see war as war not glory especially when. Drafted

[@JRichardsonBoston]

This version keeps on showing up on my metal workout mix and for good reason. The raw talent of the singer and player with the song hits so hard.

[@GeorgiusOrlandus]

I cannot stop listening to this song. God bless you all.

[@jasonharrold6686]

I keep coming back to this. I play this song and I think this is the best/ most accurate version of the voice of this song.

[@MartinHouser]

I do the same. The song itself is heartbreaking, but Benjamin Luxon's performance is perfect. Perfect.

[@tamarayoung9861]

Apart from Joan Baez but equally wonderful

[@JHVermaat]

I just found this version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZyVo6aXot2sb6s. Also sung from the heart.

[@Lyiandor]

Agreed 👍

[@acgeorgiano8747]

I... I am left completely speechless. I have never seen a more expressive performance of anything in my life. Thank you.

[@torbennielsen7529]

Without a doubt this is the best version of this old song

[@VideoGameMusicDude]

This could possibly be The best thing ever recorded in history.

[@seal_l_l]

This is how this song should sound. Slow and sorrowful and without any heroisation of the war that is all just a grinder machine.

[@Poramola007]

The island of Ceylon is known today as Sri Lanka. This is a song on the kandyan wars fought in Sri Lanka. Kandyan wars are the final wars in Indian subcontinent by the British empire. As a Sri Lankan this song is important to us as well. Interconnected history right across the world.

[@revolutionaryroad91]

Which is the name of the Song? Can we listen on KZbin

[@wintercame]

@@revolutionaryroad91 This is the song.

[@wofrok4508]

his voice is so powerful, amazing performance

[@AADIBAWA]

BEST VERSION TILL THIS DAY,,,,,,,AND NO AUTO TUNE,,,

[@georgefromgreece4119]

Beautiful! Which are those singer and guitarist, fantastic! Much love to Ireland and the whole world from Greece. No war.

[@BBoy4040]

This needs millions of views.

[@martinderakovszky3419]

*speechless* This song imho is one of the best anti-war-songs ever and I loved it for decades and knew many great versions - but this version - it's as if the song had embodied itself. This version should be shared and shared, over and over again, should be shown in every school as part of musical education AND political education.

[@tsar_zo8007]

Stop using stupid abbreviations.

[@necro5129]

Been coming back to this vid for years. Hits hard somewhere that's hard to touch yeah?

[@jcomprecycling7550]

It's called the joy of the soul.

[@oumpstar]

Wow, such emotion

[@mikeferguson1879]

What a fantastic voice on this man

[@2246maria]

Beautiful Benjamin Luxon. So moving.

[@atypicalitalian187]

this is the best thing i’ve ever heard in my whole life.

[@rubyjohn]

This... this version is just awe-inspiring.

[@agarryking]

The singer is Benjamin Luxon

[@arvidssvetovidovs8767]

Love this song in this version. Very powerfull.

[@Babbelingbrook]

Who is the singer? The old full video seem to be removed and this is my far my favorite version.

[@LittleOrg]

This is definitely one of the best versions out there. The singer's name is Benjamin Luxon.

[@Lepper36]

@Legacy Maiden What an odd thing to want removed

[@mathiepe]

Totally agree with you. Thanks for posting this again!

[@ThatCamel104]

@Viking not sure what the Left has to do with this video getting taken down

[@wisecrackisolation]

@Legacy Maiden A late, late comment, but would you mind elaborating on that?

[@paulahardeman6103]

so haunting and beautiful

[@danmoritz3319]

The past lives on. I just realized something, to me, personal and stunning, listening to this Irish singer, about the intricacies of the English language. Or more specifically, the Irish VERSION of English, which has it's own distinct cadence and phraseology. On my mother's side, there is a substantial Irish ancestory - literally those whom fled the Potato Famine around the year 1850 and arrived in the upper South or lower Midwest of America, near the Mississippi River, at that distant time, being raw frontier. A couple generations later, mother met and married a man from the, at least then, a more educated, more prosperous northern Midwest. She had a "southern" accent, very different from my proper, dignified, Midwest American, fathers, which I also share, not southern, at all.. Here is the thing - the way my mother spoke and put things, was slightly nonstandard and peculiar. I had always assumed it was due to a lower education level, or due to the southern American English aspect, but more so, almost, it's funny but accurate to say it, almost an old, "colonial American" twang and language style. But now, listening to this Irish speaker, it suddenly became clear, how different the accent but how familiar his cadence sounded, much like what my mother was really speaking , which was with a deep background of IRISH English, overlaid with a superficial southern American English accent. Wow ! It is stunning that not merely biology lived on, but a manner of speaking, also sometimes lives on, for many, many generations passed its point of origin. Bits and pieces of an ancient past are everywhere around us not very far below the surface.

[@JHVermaat]

Benjamin Luxon is not Irish, he's from Cornwall, England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Luxon

[@ccahill2322]

@@JHVermaat , Cornwall is Celtic so is Ireland.

[@joedonnelly6721]

The English spoken in Ireland is called Hiberno English . It came into being from native Irish speakers changing their Irish into English, it is very warm and very different from standard English. The Irish language is structurally different to English and this difference carries over in older speech and persists today. It's wonderful, as is the Irish language, an teanga gaeilge.

[@georgefromgreece4119]

It's true and well known, happy you discovered it, better late than never.

[@gregmumbai333]

​@@ccahill2322and what is your point?

[@kimphilby4108]

While on the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo While on the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo While on the road to sweet Athy A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye A doleful damsel I heard cry, Johnny I hardly knew ye. With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo With your drums and guns and drums and guns The enemy nearly slew ye Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer Johnny I hardly knew ye. Where are your eyes that look so mild, hurroo, hurroo Where are your eyes that look so mild, hurroo, hurroo Where are your eyes that look so mild When my poor heart you first beguiled Why did ye run from me and the child Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye. Where are your legs with which ye run, hurroo, hurroo Where are your legs with which ye run, hurroo, hurroo Where are your legs with which ye run When first you learned to carry a gun Indeed your dancing days are done Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye. I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo I'm happy for to see ye home All from the island of Sulloon So low in flesh, so high in bone Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye. Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg Ye'll be having to put a bowl to beg Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye. I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo I'm happy for to see ye home All from the island of Ceylon; So low in the flesh, so high in the bone. Johnny I hardly knew ye. They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo They're rolling out the guns again But they never will take our sons again No they never will take our sons again Johnny I'm swearing to ye.

[@ИгорьНикифоренко-ж1ц]

слушаю, а в глаза соринка попала.

[@dbkny2000]

@@ИгорьНикифоренко-ж1ц Thank you

[@beyondbdd4278]

"All from the island of Ceylon " Srilanka 🇱🇰

[@youssef5666]

one of the best interpretation

[@danijelhodak]

I don't know much about this song's historical facts and I don't know anything about this perfomer. But, here is the interesting thing about it... It works wonders when you have to put baby to sleep. I discovered this with my son 5 years ago, and now doing the same thing with my baby daughter who is two months old. Just play this on KZbin, put the cellphone near and carry the baby and walk similarly to army marching up and down the apartment. I'm really grateful for this video. Greetings from Croatia.

[@shantanusapru]

Wow!! Amazing!!! Brilliant!!! I'm at a loss for words!!! So deep & profound!!!

[@potdog1000]

brings back memories of 70s folk clubs

[@Kabel-Hildesheim]

Oh shit, I've cried more than I've done with the version played by the Dropkick Murphys. Your version is so emotinal, I love it.

Such a marvellous performance. ❤️

[@elmacopacheco]

the singer please I loved his voice and expressiveness, I want to know his name

[@rosemarypooley4730]

He was called Benjamin Luxon, a famous opera singer, from Cornwall, U.K. who sadly died on Thursday July 25th 2024

[@richardbrook2861]

How much emotion can one man make without barely making motion?!

[@2089jessica]

Beautiful 🤩

[@Sandra-hc4vo]

this song is fricken amazing!!

[@johncarney1162]

Athy is a town of 11000 people about 50 miles south west of Dublin

[@arkadiuspiwko9343]

Beste Version die ich je gehört habe ❤@!!!!!!

[@pavelhejda7965]

Got tears in my eyes listening to this performance

[@ОльгаШаламова-з5ю]

Очень красиво и трогательно

[@amithrodrigo87]

All the way from the Island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) just to listen to this Gem.

[@davewolfe8033]

Wow! Just; wow!

[@armenkishmiryan]

What a song

[@zackflynn859]

A lot of pain in this song

[@kyleslater5245]

Holy fuck. I don’t know what else to say. This is something else.

[@charleswilbanks7837]

I was 4th Infantry Division our emblem was for clovers

[@charleswilbanks7837]

I love Irish music. I was playing at the drunken LASS, HOOLIGAN'S & SCOTTY O'NEILS ONCE A WK; you'd have thought i was IRISH..¿₩TH? YOU'D BE WRONG; I'M A WELSCH, ENGLISH, & DUTCH BLEND, (0H NO, & a Touch of RUSSIAN..) DR. ZIVAGO i HOPE..❗❔❗

[@Plombius23]

Greatest, Jesus Christ! From Russia with love and yearning

[@jimmww]

Bless you, lad!

[@eliecerosorio7795]

I have seen the full video somewhere else and his explanation of this song is superb. Here, that introduction was simply omitted. Too bad... But, yes, this guy has no match...

[@peterwise5785]

Who is this incredible singer

[@Ali_Womble]

Benjamin Luxon from Cornwall, UK.

[@klausvanandan8968]

... ... gut .... ... und wahr ... und immer noch .....

[@walterschwarzlmuller1131]

Benjamin Luxon ?

[@mobystwin]

Yes

[@ДарьяД-я9у]

Замечательное исполнение этой песни!!! Очень проникновенное, лучшего я не встречала. Ирландские хулиганы тоже круто ее поют, но в своем стиле.

[@brene2764]

You might also like the Kerry Recruit

[@ДарьяД-я9у]

@@brene2764 Спасибо за рекомендацию, с удовольствием послушаю. Но все-таки Benjamin Luxon и Dropkick Murphys - мои фавориты.

[@ДарьяД-я9у]

@@brene2764 The Dubliners (Kerry Recruit) - ❤. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYmZloVse5JqaJI. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnWuhoOlgL1loMk

[@veniquaererevidi7777]

nice thx for your version your voice

[@bethlehemeisenhour5807]

Excellent

[@ritamariekelley4077]

The universal horrors of war, yet we keep on doin' it...

[@coskun_kuzu]

Çok içten güzel bir yorum olmuş.

[@charleswilbanks7837]

Well a version I heard was Johnny they never slew you

[@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter]

Strangely I met this guy in a house I worked on

[@philosophicallyinclined3705]

YES! This is my heritage and I FIGHT! I refuse to capitulate to the tyrants!.

[@shaunpaisley7155]

Apart from the Clancy Brothers, possibly the best version.

[@armenkishmiryan]

why this was removed and uploaded again?

[@philosophicallyinclined3705]

This is the most approx version of our Independence!

[@daviddevdariani]

Can anyone tell me who is performing? Thanks

[@agarryking]

Who is this?!? It is an incredibly powerful version. Pleas post who the artist iis!

[@stphnmrrs3982]

The Singer is Benjamin Luxon and the that's Bill Crofut on the Banjo

[@agarryking]

Thanks, @@stphnmrrs3982, after a good deal of google searching, I found Luxon, you can see below, and thank you very much for adding the banjo player, Bill Crofut. I guess the original poster thought that they were so famous everyone would instantly know them. That is a very young, Benjamin Luxon there, whose rendition of the song, is nothing short of, magnificent. I did not know of him, or his deeply rich baritone. I'm going to have to check out his operatic performances. Thanks again, Stephen!

[@wD6AYIze]

Привет из Туркменистана!

[@soundbodycenter]

Who is this person singing? So powerful...

[@2246maria]

Benjamin Luxon famous British baritone

[@kkj9520]

캬. 지린다

[@nalindacooray2337]

SRi LANKA...👍🚩😪😪😪🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@kobyb888]

Ok woah..

[@kratosboy5557]

I know Irish-Americans say it lots but I’m trying to get in with me Irish ancestry

[@clearytheory8826]

Thanks but I much prefer Dropkick Murphy's super-charged version to this slow roll.......

[@elsolmeu]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@DavidGarcia-tv8mu]

Skilled performer, who is/was he?

[@alonelycrow9654]

Benjamin Luxon is the man singing

[@Walgriff]

What’s his name…?

[@heededshadow509]

Who's the guy who sang this?

[@JHVermaat]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Luxon

[@solfeinberg8591]

Metallica did this song. One or Johnny Got His Gun. A bit different from When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again. He may not come home marching.

[@Howzer9299]

I still prefer drop kick murphys version but this is still good

[@JoeBloggs-hk4np]

😮😮😮

[@ЕвгенийКараблуд]

Огонь

[@roussiantpal6198]

Timeless. Especially now with what is happeing in Ukraine.

[@vladimirluyrek4174]

how actually this song for a today with russian-ukranian wars events

[@jahdjajbdj731]

:(

[@nicolasik666]

hurraa or whatever i don give two shits

[@themillwall442]

Nah, DM version miles better

[@WendyJoseph-ww8ws]

It's not a competition mate.

[@Bartos12345]

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