'Oh it's a Lovely War!' - British WW1 Song

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'Oh it's a Lovely War!' is a British song from the end of the Great War. It satirically recounts life as a soldier in the British armed forces in Europe, telling of all the rations and payment earnt in their service. Each verse says another lie about the life in the western front's trenches, followed at the end of each paragraph with another soldier's disbelief, 'What?' 'Liar' 'Wretch!'
During World War I, British soldiers on the Western Front endured harsh conditions. Trench warfare dominated the landscape, with soldiers spending prolonged periods in muddy, rat-infested trenches. These trenches were often flooded, being unsanitary and uncomfortable. Trenches experienced extreme weather conditions, from freezing to stifling heat. Despite these hardships, British forces along with the Entente defeated the Germans and Turks.

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@freedompodcast4518 5 ай бұрын

That is just a British sense of humor in a nutshell.

@AvaT42 6 ай бұрын

A very satirical song. Lol. I can just imagine all the poor sods marching along in all the mud and muck singing this!

@user-hl7nt1og7k 3 ай бұрын

Probably worth alternative lyrics, talking more of shagging and drink than breakfast.

@TheofficialSirenheadr 6 ай бұрын

Love British humor

@Falkriim 5 ай бұрын

Cool Kaiserreich PFP, love that mod.

@TheofficialSirenheadr 5 ай бұрын

@@Falkriim yup

@aaronhall9077 5 ай бұрын

I'll always appreciate our sense of humour during difficult times. Without it, we wouldn't have gotten through half of the shit thrown at us over the centuries. British resilience is what helped us to become the greatest nation on Earth. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 E󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿dit: I tried to get a Northern Ireland Flag emoji, but it just won't show up properly. Apparently, it's because 'it's not implemented by any major vendors.' (Due to their technically not being an 'official' flag for it).

@gaminguniverse2477 4 ай бұрын

Our greatest defence isn’t weapons or tactics it’s the fact that no matter what you do to us we will still invent a song that makes everything trivial and easy to mock, truly no one can out do the brits in songs that even the enemy can’t hate

@tateranus4365 3 ай бұрын

other than the Irish!

@randalf1126 Ай бұрын

@@tateranus4365 we’re birds of the same feather, though the Irish hate to admit it!

@AtlasGamingTX 6 ай бұрын

2:41 “LIAR!”

@alefergo1527 6 ай бұрын

1:16 "What?"

@castielsosa8512 2 ай бұрын

@InvaliDidea123 Ай бұрын

Nice find! i find it absurd today how petty a lie is, ask any man that served or any man older than 50 in a club and they'll tell you. Truth evades legends, but a lie told always sticks. My point being, it still meant something -even as an insult, when recoded.

@zhet 13 күн бұрын

2:09 "Wretch!"

@AtlasGamingTX 13 күн бұрын

⁠@@zhetI got this notification at 2 am lol

@Dackdagoori 6 ай бұрын

Oh it’s a Lovely War!

@user-ct5mi3zg9o Ай бұрын

I sure do love lumbs of onion in my tea

@Helmut_schmidt Ай бұрын

Those damn french

@Falkriim 5 ай бұрын

Hangin on the old barbed wire is also one of my favs

@pyaewa-cc5fl 25 күн бұрын

How Can Be The War Lovely?!

@Historybrickfilms 3 ай бұрын

Amazing 🤩

@Meautisticbagel 3 ай бұрын

1914: it’s a lovely war😃 1918:😐

@BlueOceanDaGamer 4 ай бұрын

British Soviet/Russian Japanese American and German warsongs SLAP

@muriloridolfi1898 4 ай бұрын

It's 1 A.M. in my country. I should be searching for imperialism for a school Project. Even though i really love history,im not that interested in search for something i aleardy have some knowledge about,but without knowing how to explain. So, im just hearing british war songs,my favorite type of song for relax sometimes.

@user-hl7nt1og7k 3 ай бұрын

Where are you from?

@muriloridolfi1898 3 ай бұрын

@@user-hl7nt1og7k bruhzil

@colby-el6hf 7 күн бұрын

I took a dna test and besides my knowledge of my Irish heritage before I took the test it showed that I had British heritage I’m still quite confused about it

@Snackerwacker 6 ай бұрын

Apple sauce hmmm yummy.

@Hpman692 2 ай бұрын

Hey. I got a question. Why did the Italian empire Delacre war on asoro- hugery?

@SamBrookes-g4o 10 күн бұрын

There were many areas Italy considered Italian that were held by the Austrians. The entente promised all these areas to Italy, which was a better offer than the central powers offer of useless colonial territories. Also, the alliance between Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany was merely an unofficial defensive alliance, meaning it was still "legal" for Italy to declare war on the powers. (The entente only gave Italy the larger regions it wanted, not all. This was a reason Italy joined the Nazis instead of remaining neutral. They felt cheated and betrayed by Britain and France and Wanted their own back.)

@avus-kw2f213 6 ай бұрын

What was the point of the UK getting involved in the land war

@Jason_V_the_great 6 ай бұрын

To prevent the collapse of France

@avus-kw2f213 6 ай бұрын

@@Jason_V_the_great that explains the BEF but not conscription

@whatforaaron2494 6 ай бұрын

@@Jason_V_the_greatThe Germans invading Belgium to get to France.

@jennijenjenjen 6 ай бұрын

We honoured our treaty with Belgium

@avus-kw2f213 6 ай бұрын

@@jennijenjenjen I could argue about the treaty and what exactly it meant But I won’t because the Royal Navy was the best Navy & the UK could’ve Just used the Navy not land

@eliteplier 6 ай бұрын

This is beyond depressing. Also why I am not allowed to praise The geat leader Stalin?

@Imperial_Britannia 6 ай бұрын

It’s obviously depressing, it’s about life as a soldier in one of the most cruel wars ever fought on European soil. And Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mosley, and others, any praising of them is quite nasty, there a massive difference between the British empire, and the Soviet empire. Figures like Stalin are notorious for famines and corruption, along with a cult of personality, and murders of government officials, and the desolation of Eastern Europe.

@eliteplier 6 ай бұрын

The Bri'ish Empire was pretty awfull to. Famines in Ireland and India ,Apartheid in south Africa, killing natives in America, creating the most godly AWFULL borders in the world, bringing them "Civilazation". There is no "morally correct" empires

@AtlasGamingTX 5 ай бұрын

@@Imperial_Britanniawait but the Soviet Union is a union of social communist republics, it’s not an empire

@Imperial_Britannia 5 ай бұрын

@@AtlasGamingTX The definition of ‘Empire’ by the Oxford dictionary follows: ‘an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. 2. a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group.’ The Soviet Union more than qualifies being an empire in all but name, russian communists holding absolute authority over its lands, being one the largest nations in Eurasia, with many different cultures who didn’t want to be under the Soviets rule, not to mention that the Soviets brutally suppressed any nation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who tried to resist soviet domination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_empire gal-dem.com/why-romanticising-the-soviet-union-obscures-its-colonial-past/ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/24/how-western-scholars-overlooked-russian-imperialism

@lucaogno9047 4 ай бұрын

@@Imperial_Britannia Bro just showed him the facts, and with sources!