To End All Wars

[AL-58]

If you like "Green Fields of France" by Eric Bogle, then you'll love his song "And the Band played Waltzing Matilda":

Yep, Bogle is great. He does do quite a few WW1 songs; another one is "As if he knows" about the soldiers of the Light-Horse having to shoot each others horse before returning to Australia.

Also "Green Fields of France" is not the name of the bogle song, but a name used by many of the acts that have covered it. The real name is No Mans Land.

Last time I seen him live, he saved and the band played waltzing matilda till last, the audience was absolutely silent, very emotional and weepy.

Al

[macwilkin]

Yep, Bogle is great. He does do quite a few WW1 songs; another one is "As if he knows" about the soldiers of the Light-Horse having to shoot each others horse before returning to Australia.

Also "Green Fields of France" is not the name of the bogle song, but a name used by many of the acts that have covered it. The real name is No Mans Land.

Last time I seen him live, he saved and the band played waltzing matilda till last, the audience was absolutely silent, very emotional and weepy.

Al

Al,

John Williamson does a wonderful version of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" on one of his CDs -- very haunting indeed.

T.

[Jerry]

I have it on one of Charlie Zham's Cds also. It is indeed very stirring. It is on this album, whis available at Charlie's website.

http://www.charliezahm.com/albums4.html

[AL-58]

Al,

John Williamson does a wonderful version of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" on one of his CDs -- very haunting indeed.

T.

I don't believe the original Bogle version can be beat personally. I do know it's been covered hundreds of times though, to the extent that some accredit the song to "trad" ignoring the fact the writer is still alive, Eric Bogle laughs at that one himself. When it first hit the sales charts as a hit, he didn't know at all, he was working in a power station in Scotland temporarily while settling his mothers affairs after she passed. His boss came up to him one day and asked "Are you Eric Bogle..."

The Pogues have a good one too, very different. I love the Banjo solo at the start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM



Al