The Connaught Rangers - British Army Song

[@maxcream6726]

It's so interesting hearing Irish trad music in a British patriotic context, normally it's rebel music.

[@mercian7]

I thought so as well.

[@joshkidd5463]

surprising amount from northern ireland, im from there and as much as we call ourselves british we are irish too

[@wanderingronin6462]

@@joshkidd5463 Ireland is British tho, so you are British as well :)

[@joshkidd5463]

@wanderingronin6462 calm it down i bet your one of those sad people on steam

[@J.cd33]

@@wanderingronin6462ireland is not british, shut up lad

[@gabrielboi3465]

The first lads to reach the walls of Badajoz in 1812

[@99IronDuke]

Rudyard Kipling's 'Devil's Own'. Great soldiers.

[@sasflo]

My grandfather served with the Connaught Rangers before WW1. However, he was in Australia when war broke out, was seconded to the Australian army and died at Gallipoli.

[@Marcus.junius.brutus]

I have an original Connaught rangers forage cap badge ww1

[@BritishRedBaron]

Thats actually really cool.​@Marcus.junius.brutus

[@BounceBackBelfast]

Can't believe I've never heard this before. God bless them all

[@MonarchistMusic]

Love it! Real quality this

[@patrioticarchive]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :)

[@pdmarino]

Very cool. My great grandfather on my mother's side was in the Connaught Rangers, 6th battalion, killed in action in March 1918 and is buried there in France.

[@mercian7]

He did his duty..and that's enough. Bless him.

[@ActiveLosing]

Sad...

[@triestodrum2215]

Lest we forget

[@rosscopeeco69]

I recall being a waiter on the officers mess in the Windsor room and hearing the officer's (many of them freinds) singing this whilst pissed up and slipping me their chits for drink and "get yourself one"

[@mercian7]

You are not just a waiter

[@Pranitprahaan]

We entering Badajoz with this banger!

[@thermal5831]

“The Devil’s Own”. It puts a smile on my face knowing that my grandfather and his ancestors fought in this regiment. ☘️

[@wayneabel5421]

Brilliant 🇬🇧 bit of classic folk me thinks

[@dernochjungenoergler]

Astounding song, thank you!

One of the best ever military songs.

[@mercian7]

Yes indeed

[@EannaWithAFada]

When you find out you're 1% from the west of Ireland

[@jaymooney1285]

Did you get sunburnt on holiday there once? I doubt it’s worth a claim.

[@connormclernon26]

13% or so in my case

[@jarraandyftm]

@@connormclernon26so not from West of Ireland at all then. Plastic as fuck.

[@castiron9002]

🇨🇮Born and bread in sligo 🇬🇧

[@bobbirobin2051]

I got 95% Connacht Irish though I'm from England, which makes me more Irish than the Irish themselves (it winds them up when I say that) 😅😂

[@andrewheaney6858]

What a brilliant song !

[@mercian7]

I agree..it's borne of truth as well.

[@sanseijedi]

Connaught Rangers are a bloody brave mob.

[@mercian7]

Yup

[@Kirkee7]

Great marching song.

[@dickyarya8204]

In our army we're the best From the north, south east or west The best of boys are following the drum. We are mighty hard to bate, I may say without concate, Faith the enemy are welcome when they come. Be they Russiand, French or Dutch Sure it doesn't matter much, We're the boys to give 'em sugar in their tay For we're the Connaught Rangers, The lads to face all dangers, Fallaballah, fallaballah, Clear the way! cho: You may talk about your guards boys Your lancers and hussars boys Your fusiliers and royal artillery (without the guns) The girls we drive'em crazy, the foe we beat them easy The rangers from old Connaught, yaarrr, the land across the sea! Now allow me here to state, It is counted quite a trate, In old Ireland just for fight for friends's sake To crack your neighbor's head, Or maybe your own instead. Faith 'tis just the fun and glory of a wake So you see all Irish boys are accustomed to such noise It's as natural as drinking whiskey neat. For there's none among them all, from Kingston to Donegal, Like the gallant Connaught Ranger on his beat. Chorus T'was Bonaparte who said as the Frenchmen on he led Marshall Soult, be them the Rangers do you know? Faith says Soult, there's no mistake, to our heels we'd better take I think it's time for you and I to go. When the colleens hear their step, it makes their hearts to leap Aaargh, jewels will ye wist till Parrick's day? For they are the Connaught Rangers, the boys that fear no dangers And they're the lads that always take the sway. Chorus Now you haven't far to search, for the lads who best can march The lads that never fear the longest day, Faith you easily will know, their dashing step will show Tis the Connaught boys who always lead the way. If me words perhaps you doubt, come and join 'em on a route I'm thinkin' you'll not find it quite a treat; You'll see them in the van, you may catch them if you can Faith you'll have to travel fast or you'll be late.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

So many errors in your lyrics, I can't list them all.

[@dickyarya8204]

​@@golden.lights.twinkle2329quite frankly I don't care since I copied and pasted this

[@WookJnr]

Just saying Fallaballah is actually faugh a ballagh means clear the wya in irish. Just a fun fact @@dickyarya8204

[@mercian7]

@@dickyarya8204 Love it

[@VilleKristian-qj8fx]

"the foe we beat them easy" the Brits already dropping disstracks in the 1800s

[@theearthguy1814]

It's not often you hear a British army song from Ireland that isn't from Ulster

[@fyrdman2185]

The singer sounds like he's from Ulster.

[@mercian7]

I love this song.

[@obiwankenobi9093]

I love this

[@kkminor]

I love this song i like your video!

[@Historicage1134]

Wonderful 👍 This song perfectly describe the nature and Power of British soldiers

[@WookJnr]

Right? Just shows how the Irish carried the British Empire and when they rebelled it completely tumbled!

[@susisgud]

@@WookJnr lol keep dreaming

[@WookJnr]

@@susisgud Don't have to dream, because it happened! 🤣🤣

[@swaythegod5812]

@@susisgudnot gonna lie it did start to fall apart when Ireland left ironically

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

​@@susisgudWellington was Irish in denial Waterloo was Irish dragoons Irish hussars and 4 Irish regiments All foot soldiers were recruited from either catholics I prison or Irish areas in the west

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Erin Go Bragh!

[@joeyboy1951]

First time of hearing. Wonderful!

[@mercian7]

Indeed

[@sankargopalkrishna4185]

I think it may mean conceit, not concede at the start

[@borkerman]

Spongebob quick reel it in, don't you hear the music, that's the Connaught Rangers, every Union of Britan ai knows it means death.

[@Nincompoop709]

good song.

[@Michael43713]

The Irish Brigade fought everywhere.

[@trevormillar1576]

You do know that the Connaught Rangers were disbanded in 1916 afterthought mutinied in India because they heard about the Easter Rising, thought they weren't British any more and refused to Obey orders: it wad when they were being shot fir mutiny they realised the rising had failed.

[@irishdepartmentofagriculture]

They weren't disbanded until 1922

[@EannaWithAFada]

they where disbanded when Ireland got independence and hence Connacht was no longer part of the UK, nothing to do with the mutiny, sure they are from the west of Ireland, probably as far away from Britian as you can get whilst on Irish soil

[@craigkelly4278]

I had a Grandfather how was in the 36 ulster division in WW1 die christmas day in the battle of the Somme 1916

[@sleppy_piggy]

Who will write mother now..

[@RedWoman72]

My great great grandfather was a connaught ranger

[@ME-hs1ie]

I mean..... They're no South Down Militia 😉

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@Jack the Film Fanatic South down Militia?

[@dougplays1240]

Now, they’re the terror of the land.

[@jaydenlee1965]

@@oscarosullivan4513 what’s that

[@iankennedy7048]

Faugh A Ballagh!

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

High upon the gallows tree Swung the noble hearted three By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom But they met him face to face With the courage of their race And they went with souls undaunted to their doom

[@matiasreynoso28]

Up song ''ONE AND ALL''

[@castiron9002]

🇨🇮As a sligo man this makes me proud 🇬🇧

[@EannaWithAFada]

Can't imagine you're a sligo man and a unionist though? I'm a Galwegian who can also appreciate the Connaught Rangers but British rule in Ireland can still get fucked

[@castiron9002]

@@EannaWithAFada who said I was a unionist?

[@Source98705]

This reminds me of the song killaloe

[@Ahartic]

Faugh ah Ballagh🇬🇧☘️

[@ActiveLosing]

All the soldiers did their duty for their country bless them all...

[@stevehall9333]

88th Connaught Rangers, some of Wellingtons finest 👌

[@DerMarschliedKamerad]

Very interesting! :)

[@patrioticarchive]

Thanks! I really like this one because I'm Anglo-Irish :)

[@DerMarschliedKamerad]

@@patrioticarchive that's more interesting not gonna lie :0

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Anglo-Irish are not Irish

[@The_Christian_Cavalier]

@@oscarosullivan4513 more irish than you. Go to yank land or something you damn Republican

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

Most of us on the east coast are Anglo Irish

[@sangurulez]

100℅ British

[@borkerman]

When Ireland joins the entente

[@melonmusk6464]

Ahh, a fellow kaiserreich enjoyer?

[@borkerman]

@@melonmusk6464 yes

[@pandaman3367]

Not going to ask how the girl in the harp got past youtube...... no sirree...

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

It’s the Irish president symbol and the Irish royal symbol it would never be blocked it’s one of the flags of Ireland

[@pandaman3367]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f Ah, fair enough. Just not every day you see a shirtless woman on a harp on YT, you feel me?

[@Dryhten1801]

@@pandaman3367 artistic and educational nudity is allowed

[@pandaman3367]

@@Dryhten1801 I mean, two years late but that's pretty cool

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

One glaring error in your lyrics. It's "I may say without CONCEIT" and not "I may say without concede".

[@Earhairy]

"One glaring error in your lyrics. It's "I may say without CONCEIT" and not "I may say without concede"". I think the lead singer did sing "I may say without CONCEIT", it just sounds odd when said in an Irish accent.

[@hughneek12]

It would be best spelled "conseyt" to sound with an old Irish accent. It really is more a form of Olde English, I suppose.

[@grumpyorgre2336]

God bless the British army

[@shekakargbo7961]

Definitely something an Irishman would say

[@andrewlizotte5540]

I’m pretty sure they were irish

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@andrewlizotte5540yeah it was created for Irish soldiers splitting into different infantry brigades and was gotten rid of when Ireland became a free state. It’s not a British regiment the most Irish in it just wanted to be in the army there was no rebellion at the time and Irish weren’t left have most jobs besides the army

[@bedbug6177]

No

[@allenomalley4014]

@@andrewlizotte5540 yes but in the British army you see the regiment was in the order of battle I’m sure recognise your elementary mistake 😮

[@generalgeorge5539]

Good..

[@reynardthefox]

Cheers to all the brave Lads 🇬🇧

[@gr6875]

Back when the Irish weren’t militantly Anti-British

[@baddow1654]

Ya we were dying from forced starvation

[@gr6875]

@@baddow1654 wrong

[@baddow1654]

@@gr6875 oh let me guess it was our fault for only growing potatoes or it happened all over Europe. It didnt happen anywhere like it did in Ireland because the British owned 90% of our land and was selling all the food abroad and the only thing Irish people had the money to grown was potatoes. There was enough food in Ireland to feed everyone but the British government didnt care.

[@baddow1654]

@@gr6875 how

[@gr6875]

@@baddow1654 anyway your response has nothing to do with my comment. The song is from a time when they Irish didn’t have a racial hatred for the British.

[@pjmoseley243]

who's listening to this today 11/11/2023

[@AgentPrimus]

Yo can never beat the Irish!

[@justanothergoogler6436]

Any Connaughtons out there?

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Yes and there not singing this

[@sanseijedi]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f Never heard that, but them lads were big!

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@sanseijedi nobody from there would be singing this but yeah west Ireland breeds hardy lads tough weather and it’s all mountains and it’s the most Irish speaking part of Ireland

[@mercian7]

We sort of all are, after hearing this

[@EannaWithAFada]

@@mercian7 no

[@jamesquirk4999]

Hail to Devil 😈 Own

[@rosscopeeco69]

Faugh a ballagh IXRIR

[@TheGrowler55]

Rule Britannia from Glasgow 😊👊😎🇬🇧

[@jerrymyphone5849]

Just like Highlanders, when they came hame their crofts were probably burning 😡

[@anthonym3351]

Were they British or Irish

[@swaythegod5812]

Irish who were apart of the British army

[@BunglebottomInc]

Actually the way Great Britain (1707-1801) was formed was, the Act of Union, joined them together, it is one whole nation on its own. Then, The United Kingdom, (1801-present) added Ireland, when Ireland joined. Then of course wales got independent so it wasn't just England, Scotland, and Ireland in the UK, but Wales too. Then the troubles disjoined Ireland so we only have Northern Ireland now.

[@Brigader-Isaac]

Killaloe

[@bedbug6177]

British song??

[@Horizon344]

Indeed.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

It’s a province in Ireland a song for Irish soldiers going to fight in the British army. ( these same soldiers were sent to slaughter at Waterloo Sri Lanka and Africa) they turned against British during the easter rising)

[@bedbug6177]

@@Horizon344 no

[@Horizon344]

@@bedbug6177 British as can be 👍

[@bedbug6177]

@@Horizon344 Irish as can be 👍🏻. Ireland is not British

[@halrd2651]

One the best in the british army and the best mutiny in the british army

[@swaythegod5812]

Most of them stood down lol

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@swaythegod5812the rising was mostly Irish rebels in the British army majority were Connaught rangers due to mistreatment in Africa and Sri Lanka

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@swaythegod5812these people were still Irish catholics. The same lads called ye foreigners

[@swaythegod5812]

⁠​⁠@@user-ze8yy8jg1fthey did not care about Africa or Sri Lanka what a joke they fought in India and helped conquer it as well as many other places from around the world What your saying is just revisionist history from republican propaganda Trying to change the narrative The truth was most stood down because they didn’t want to fight there own people but they did not want to fight Britain either

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

​@@swaythegod5812your going to talk about propaganda 😂😂😂 Your government literally admits British are told a fake version of history Your whole education system is propaganda horseshit from tory nazis.

[@wor53lg50]

Now you know where "me little armalite" came from?.....Faugh au ballagh...No surrender...copied and changed into a travesty of these proud heroic men....

[@fitzant]

They are not even the same tune you looney 😂😂😂

[@docdildonica7515]

Up the First Regina Rangers Est 22

[@pim5356]

fada beo eire ✝️🍀❤🔥 long live Ireland granted by God