Albert Farrington - It's a Long Way To Tipperary
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2007
- A Long Way to Tipperary, as sung by Albert Farrington. I thought I'd upload it as I could not this version on youtube and thought it should be shared with the world, as in my opinion I feel it is superior to the version as sung by John McCormack. THe picture is just basically so you're not staring at a black screen the whole time.
Lyrics:
Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there. 
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I salute all whom lost there lives in the Great War.
MinecraftNoob 401 Wow, even a Minecraft player.! What brought you to these far edges of youtube?
Thanks Minecraft man!
The sign outside Tipperary Town says 'It's been a long way but you are here now' !!
Is that true?
My grandma started to sing the other day this song, and it surprised me because where we live it's strange to see a grandma singing in ENGLISH, so I asked her how she knew that song, and she told me that in the Civil War went to London to live just one year and she used to listen it in the radio, so I decided to find the song. When I got it, I showed her and she started to sing with tears in her eyes. Thank you for posting the song, you made happy my grandma :)
The Mexican civil war? Oh wait 11 years ago!
That's beautiful!
@@Napoleon_Bonaparte1804 the spanish civil war
Question is your grandma ok?
@@charlieempire7733 yes
The soldiers in this picture are Canadians comming back from the Vimy Ridge battle.
war was hell. the positive and enthusiastic views of this war at the beginning changed to something else pretty soon. My heart goes with those 19,240 brave British soldiers that died at the first day of this battle. I don't kow the exact number of german soldiers but they lost 8000 casualties.Casualties were awful. Germans lost an entire generation in this war. I recommend anyone to read All quiet on the western front. Never Again
StPieXOraProNobis Stpie, you fucking idiot.
this song is catchier than the spanish flu
My grandfather (Navy Private) and Second cousin (Around the rank of Captain) are both World War II Veterans, and my grandfather was in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed it. Good luck Robert, and rest in peace, Granddad.
it was this date. 1967. i was 15. it was cold...we didnt know much. but we knew of the situation. may god have mercy on all those forgotten souls.
Ahh this song is so catchy! I can't get it out of my mind. Best version of all right here :)
das Boot brought me here... and now I can't stop playing it over and over... it's so easy to get into and next thing you know your right there with the fellas on your way to Tipperary!!! :D
I like this song very much (even though it is almost 100 years old) 😃
+Shadow It is 100 years old, it's 104 years old this year.
best version imho
The way is very long indeed
this melody makes me feel that the life is so beautiful
Jack Judge, who wrote this Lived in OLDBURY in the West Midlands England,My late parents recalled Jack and his cart were a familar sight in the town in the 20s. I would imagine this song was one of the greatest worldwide hits of ww1 thanks for posting.
I live in Tipperary
It's not such a long way then, is it?
Jan Nowak Ditto
Definitely not a long way then. In fact,there's no way since you're already in the village. :D
Haha, well Tipperary is a county, I'm not in Tipperary Town.
bleddyuffles I thought it was a village. I read up about the song on Wikipedia.
The American Civil War, WWI and Vietnam were some of the most inspirational ones for songs but that didn't make them less horrible.
this is what i call awesome: a song from 1914 and were sill listening to it
Wait. You commented this 10 years ago. Idk but that's crazy..
Wait. You commented this 10 months ago. Idk but that's crazy..
Wait. you commented this 4 months ago. idk but that's crazy..
Best version of the song
My father used to listen this song. It was a 78 rpm version . Thank you very much for sharing this song. :)
I'm a teen and I find this song awesome! God bless all the WW1 soldiers of the UK,France and the Commonwealth nations!
I'm glad there're teens listening to war songs and marches,coz im one of them).But what about Central Powers' soldiers?God bless them as well
+Zac Alizada I *don't* mean to be offensive, but back in the 1910s, the Central Powers started the war so that's why I said that God would bless the Allied soldiers only.
Of course, many European countries are now at peace, they have forgiven one another but they can't forget whatever happened.
It's nice to know you're a teen as well.
+Mabel Ƥιηєѕ Actually nope, first world war began with assassination of Franz Ferdinand right? The killer was Serbian(maybe with a hand of Russia) so technically Serbia started war.And WW2 began coz of WW1 (Treaty of Versailles).All responsible for this wars was Serbia. And your opinion, why blame those dudes? They were people too, all they wanted is the protecting their countries and go back home.Politicians usually the reason the wars began and many innocent lives(soldiers,civilians) dying for no reason.
P.S.I'm Azerbaijani and our country did not participated in WW1.We had our own problems(Armenians) and we were neutral.But Ottomans were our allies so, technically we were on the side of Central powers.
+Zac Alizada Well, you do have a good point, apparently I'm aware Serbia started the war but it's odd to think that she was on the side of the Allies. Yes, war is horrible and it just caused both soldiers and innocent civilians to die.
I'm from Singapore (Southeast Asia) btw.
Soooo, how's your brother, Dipper?
Heard it on the movie Das Boat when I was young and loved it ever since.
How could people dislike this song
It brings a tear to my all the time
It's weird to know that everyone in this video is dead, ether by the war or by natural causes. R.I.P
i pay respects f
@@FinleyDooner ok
@@FinleyDooner ok lol f
Time does that!
Is Claude Rains in this photograph?
It is interesting that this Commonwealth song is still played at special occasions, such as Remembrance Day Dinners. I live in Canada, and when I went to a Remembrance Day dinner in early November, the piper played this song when the Brigadier General walked in the room.
God Bless Canada, and God Save the Queen!
This songs were beautiful
Verdun brought me here
+
PatzePlays same
I heard this song somewhere and was like HOLD UP I KNOW THIS
same
Wonderful vintage musical performance !
Wonderful vintage musical performance !
Michael Friedman wonderful vintage music performance!
"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it" Pindar.
Maybe Erasmus? That's what the garden statue at the Peace Palace in The Hague says....
Cheers Stella!
Yeah, I know how popular it was during the Great War but I didn't know how old it was or when it was first put on wax.
Thanks for your reply.
i love this song
First heard the chorus on this song from listening to the History of the Great War podcast. So happy that I finally found this version!
i love it
Couldn't agree more, the songs that were sung on them ol splintery radios are the best compared to today :3
I'm glad I finally found the version that the History Of The Great War uses.
О мой бог!! это оригинальная пластинка!! OMG!! It's realy original!!!
I LOVE THIS SONG :)
G'day Triplesod, here's a bit more info:
Easily one of the most popular anthems sung by soldiers on the way to the Western Front during the early enthusiasm of summer 1914, the song was written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams some two years earlier in 1912.
Three song versions were recorded; the first was recorded by John McCormack in 1914. The second was recorded by the American Quartet with Billy Murray, also in 1914. The third was recorded January 1915 by Albert Farrington.
cheers
It's the victory at Vimy Ridge picture, one of my favourites! :)
my great uncle owned a farm called tipparary road
when i was a baby he used to ride in a horse and buggy with my dad and grandfather
and me to go milk the cows and he would sing this song all the way there!!
The BEST VERSION on YT! Thanks
I've been trying to find this for ages, thanks very much for posting :) Songs like this help us remember.
Apparently it was recorded in 1915. Was a huge hit during bleak time of WW1
Definatelly my all time favorite to sing under the shower
haha! I do that too... best shower song ever!
Einar Stensson Incredibly catchy tune, probably because of its light hearted, happy nature.
lololololololololollolololololololololololol
I whistle this song while i'm on a public toilet.I'm 14 years old and i love listening war songs and marches.
EDIT: Well, that was awkward thing to say, although i grew up since the tine i wrote this comment and apologize with all the "Mah gunureshyn sux lets go bek to oldern era" type comments.
Same
100th anniversary of the Great War this year...it shaped the modern world in so many ways...even this song is indicative of that. The soldiers weren't singing about honour or glory, they just wanted to go home.
Thank you for posting this. To any Briton,and those from the Commonwealth, with a sense of history, this is just so poignant. With the passing of the last 'Tommy' this week a generation worthy of the greatest respect for their sacrifice and fortitude has gone forever.
Its good to remember. lets all remember the men who gave they're lives for all conflicts.
"Come, come, boys! We must confound Jerry at every turn!"
Great video. Thanks for sharing mate.
I heard this song in history and my friend and I have loved it ever since
EXCELLENT thanks for sharing!
That is just awesome!
i love this-- i wish you could put more photos... lol
I salute those soldiers who song this, particularly my Great-Grandad, who fought in the Somme.
Because people can't accept that more than one kind of music can be good.
I'm a teen and i love this :)
This song is simply great...Love it!
Wooow I was till today in London so I can sing goodbye Picadilly ://
GOD BLESS AL THE SOULDERS WHO HAVE LOST THERE LIVES IN EVERY WAR!!!
And everyone was gay. Surprising they predicted London 100 years later in 2016
Awesome!
with much respect to you all who fought the good fight we owe you all and could never repay you
Today is 100 years to the day since the song was first performed. It was written by Jack Judge of Stalybridge to win a bet that he couldn't compose and sing a song within 24 hours. (Stalybridge is a long way from Tipperary - 264 miles to be precise!)
CLASSIC!
This is also the fight song for the University of Missouri
(Chorus)
Every True Son
Every true son, so happy hearted,
Skies above us are blue,
There's a spirit so deep within us,
Old Missouri here's to you (rah rah!);
When the band plays the Tiger war song,
And when the fray is through,
We will tramp, tramp, tramp, around the columns,
With a cheer, for Old Mizzou!
thank you sir. couldn't have said it better myself.
@Paggy56447 Hi Paggy, 'poignant' (pronounced 'poyniant') means that it brings feelings of emotion,painful in this case, as we remember the terrible losses among the soldiers (60,000 British casualties in one day on the Somme) who sung songs like this as they went off to the trenches and their deaths. This song was picked up and also sung by German troops in both wars.
The horror and the stench in the trenches,the mud and the unbearable noise, the despair, the bloodshed, the mourn and weep of hundred of thousands of mothers, wives, sisters, girlfriends, as well as fathers, and younger brothers, the ones who came back home, some mentally mutilated, many physically and mentally severed, with burnt lungs for the rest of their lives due to poisonous gas, and millions who went and never returned from France and Belgium. Listening to this, my heart shrinks.
Je suis le seul français a trouvé cette musique vraiment magnifique ? ^^
A noté que les chant des deux grande guerre coté occidentale sont vraiment beau ^^
I dont think Jack Judge ever thought his little music hall ditty would ever become so famous when he wrote it in 1912. He was British but his grandparents were Irish (no prizes for guessing where exactly in Ireland they came from!)
The chorus sounds like it could be a march or fight song.
I have an original 78 of this version. Mine shows its age a bit, and the harmonies are faded. I assume that the original charcoal recording mike would have struggled with them, and that this version has been improved. Or perhaps this was re-recorded after the introduction of electric mikes in the mid 20s, but the artist's voice does not seem to have aged. The record came out about July 1914, was a hit, and was sung in the music halls, innocent of all connotation of war. The soldiers would have taken it with them from August 1914 on. It's good to march to; always was. Later versions took on a militaristic tone, which degraded the sunny innocence of the original, I think. Squaddies rarely sing bombstic or patriotic songs. That is for civilians. Thanks for posting.
Best song on Silent Hunter 3, I can sink convoys all day to this.
Thank you!
GREAT!!!
This was a very important war. No lives were wasted. Those who say so are jealous of the glory their cowardice robs them of.
I came here from tank girls and now I can't stop listening.
I bet that's a really dumb Japanese game which to me is making fun of Deutschland
Panzer IV is best girl
That would be the TOG II m8
Adriel Scott For lonely world of tank players, who cannot find girls who share their interests. I feel bad for them.
Duncan Wiggin
Not world of tanks.
PanzerMädels.
EVERY TRUE SON SO HAPPY HEARTED SKIES ABOVE US ARE BLUE! THERE'S A SPIRIT SO DEEP WITHIN USOLD MISSOURI'S HERE TO YOU.
WHEN THE BAND PLAYS THE TIGER WAR SONG, AND WHEN THE FRAY IS THROUGH, WE WILL TRAMP, TRAMP ROUND THE COLUMNS WITH A CHEER FOR OLD MIZZOU!
How can anyone dislike this song?!
Hi! My great-uncles were non-nobles from Britain, I believe two of the three died late in 1918. One for certain in France. We may have ancestors on different sides but bless all the war dead.
good work
Canada was sovereign territory of Great Britain so it was their duty to serve when called up to war. Canada didn't fully become independent until 1982.
good song even to this day.
Up to mighty London came
An Irish man one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!…
You're right about their losses, but that's attributed mostly to their tactics. They didn't have enough weapons or supplies, gave them little to no training and they just sent their people in without a care if they survived. They had enough bodies to do that, so the tactics worked in the end, but not without great losses.
j'adore sa donne vraiment l'impretion d'écouer une vielle radio du temps de la guerre
the song its along way to tipperary was written in westbromwich in a pub in oldbury and first sung on stage in birmingham go on the net its all there in black and white but no one can deny best first world war 1 song and still sung every year all over the uk on the 11 nov
This is the version I like
Yes, it did!
From one aspect that is true. War is always unfortunate and undesirable, but when it's down to you or your enemy, you had better fight to win.
However, necessity is the mother of invention and were it not for the "great wars" we would not have many of the modern conveniences we enjoy today such as efficient manufacturing, convenient and inexpensive air travel, good engines and tires on our cars, plastics, and numerous other things.
yes, it certainly did.
Good to hear this version.
Thanks.
I'm an American and I like this better than any of our patriotic songs........
It did but I knew about this song since like ages ago.
You're one to talk about respect!
Battlefield 5 Brought me here :D !! Anyone else???
Me too...I just love that "under no flag" mission😃😃😃
omfg i remember this song from a ps2 game called the great escape its a movie too !!!
Wolfpack anyone? :D
Hi there ^^
Lia?
100 years ago today, 10,000 men clambered over the trenches and invaded a german frontline. #neverforget