Sharpe - Over The Hills and Far Away

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025

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  • @driver2212
    @driver2212 Год назад +439

    No Frenchmen were butchered, murdered or maimed in the making of this video!😅

  • @molealto
    @molealto Год назад +169

    Having the theme song sung by one of the Chosen Men.
    Now that's soldiering.

    • @billsbasementworkshop1902
      @billsbasementworkshop1902 9 месяцев назад +8

      He has a bloody good voice.

    • @shaynewheeler9249
      @shaynewheeler9249 5 месяцев назад +1

      😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

    • @crazycarper3780
      @crazycarper3780 Месяц назад +2

      The ability to fire 3 rounds a minute in weather! 😂😂

    • @gameburn178
      @gameburn178 Месяц назад +1

      That's casting. And the wonder that is British culture. (Canadian appreciator here.)

  • @RobertLund-d7d
    @RobertLund-d7d Год назад +169

    The Duke of Wellington said before Waterloo ,after inspecting his troops, " I dont know what affect these men will have on the enemy, but by God they frighten me".

    • @BillyAsWell
      @BillyAsWell 6 месяцев назад +10

      Bloody right.

    • @GeorgeBIZINICHI
      @GeorgeBIZINICHI 5 месяцев назад

      That,s a very big lie,lovely for stupid😅To the Waterloo,Duke Wellington said:,, I pray to...God,to get the dark of night a faster...to cover us.,, France,s Army of NAPOLEON were a...nightmare for me ..today.,,😮That,s the true.After ,that Napoleon Bonaparte lost his troops in Waterloo becouse gen.NEY,couse charge with cavalry very sure for his ..victory.😊😊😊

    • @nathanroberts6356
      @nathanroberts6356 4 месяца назад +6

      Wasn't the best of men but was the best of generals

    • @jameschippendale960
      @jameschippendale960 3 месяца назад +3

      Need these men now Britain is fucked

    • @British-v1h
      @British-v1h Месяц назад

      A world war is coming

  • @barbarasummers6106
    @barbarasummers6106 Год назад +124

    My sister in law and I watched this series from start to finish one after the other. We loved it so much. I looking to get Brit Box so I can watch it again. She has gone on and I will remember her. Loved Sean Bean.

    • @jockmcscottish7569
      @jockmcscottish7569 Год назад +7

      There all on RUclips. Except the later 3 in India.

    • @santoven
      @santoven 11 месяцев назад +5

      I bought the first 5 seasons on Prime soon as they were available. They switched to BritBox and became unavailable for purchase except by subscription. Got the DVDs of the other seasons. One of the greatest series ever made and super unappreciated.

    • @ghengissmith8948
      @ghengissmith8948 11 месяцев назад

      Did you both have sex with each other?

    • @jamieshrimpton8021
      @jamieshrimpton8021 10 месяцев назад

      I got the box set

    • @pisswobble1571
      @pisswobble1571 9 месяцев назад +2

      Oh that's sad mate.... May your sister find peace, brother

  • @steveroper6049
    @steveroper6049 Год назад +74

    Love to re-watch this series, and this song permeates through the entire story with John Tams voice adding to the spectacle. Struggle to watch Sharpes Waterloo, the loss of Harris and Hagman left a mark.

    • @mottthehoople693
      @mottthehoople693 9 месяцев назад +4

      you are right..made me sad

    • @angel102ify
      @angel102ify 6 месяцев назад +1

      it's on ITVhub

    • @putik72
      @putik72 5 месяцев назад +1

      The books are much better.

  • @Southern_Crusader
    @Southern_Crusader Год назад +55

    Achievement Earned:
    *That’s Good Singing*
    God bless Hagman’s actor.

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад +5

      John Tams is the singer he also plays some of the instruments

  • @roelvanderwegen1801
    @roelvanderwegen1801 2 года назад +140

    Now that's soldiering.

    • @shakkabubba
      @shakkabubba Год назад +11

      Three rounds a minute. Now that’s soldiering.

    • @Hypocrisywatch1
      @Hypocrisywatch1 Год назад +3

      Walking slowly towards the enemy and getting slaughtered isn’t soldiering

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад

      No war is soldering, forced to go to a country that doesn't want them, going to a country most have never heard of. Most of these was thieves, murderes, gamblers only a few where the privileged.

    • @jonathanmurphy3141
      @jonathanmurphy3141 Год назад +3

      On a TV budget 😉
      I enjoyed the various series, read a few of the books - good cast, entertainment.

    • @critict100
      @critict100 Год назад +3

      Feeding false information to the enemy.
      That’s soldiering

  • @daveroe4961
    @daveroe4961 Год назад +141

    Sharpe is the most badass action hero in the history of fiction. He survived a whole TV series despite being played by Sean Bean.

    • @nbenefiel
      @nbenefiel Год назад +7

      Bean was great

    • @johnwilson5637
      @johnwilson5637 Год назад +1

      Who do you think would have been better?

    • @northern_law738
      @northern_law738 Год назад +2

      That's soldiering!

    • @kasegiyabu5030
      @kasegiyabu5030 Год назад +2

      @@johnwilson5637Paul McGann was cast originally as Sharpe. He injured his knee playing football some weeks into filming and had to be replaced. Misfortune for him, while being a career starter for Bean. McGann is a first-rate actor, so would have played well the character. It's impossible to determine if anyone could have played better Sharpe, because it's not been tried.

    • @joannicholson3030
      @joannicholson3030 Год назад +8

      Yeah but no one can say "ya bastard" like Sean bean 😊😊😊

  • @Sandyfaceroll
    @Sandyfaceroll Год назад +117

    All the comments wishing for a big budget remake... Have you seen the state of just about every remake for the last 15 years? Please please please, don't remake this series. Leave well enough alone.

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад +16

      Very much agree, leave this alone. Many of the men in this series was reenactors.

    • @mikavirtanen7029
      @mikavirtanen7029 Год назад +18

      Yeah, the budget of Sharpe was less than what they spend to catering in modern day series, but the characters and storylines were gold. No need for remake and That's Soldiering.

    • @pisswobble1571
      @pisswobble1571 9 месяцев назад +7

      Yes, I don't want to see Sharpe portrayed as a black lesbian and a storyline portraying the British as the forunners of the nazis

    • @STOPDELETINGMYCOMMENTSFASCISTS
      @STOPDELETINGMYCOMMENTSFASCISTS 9 месяцев назад +6

      Big budget does not equal better. For me atleast for example. My favorite Dune is the campy sci-fi miniseries. Could be nostalgia who knows but i found the low budget endearing to me and made the cast have to be that much better.

    • @pickle301
      @pickle301 8 месяцев назад +5

      No need for any remake it’s a bit like rocky .if I see its on the tv guide it goes on 👌😂

  • @snowwolf2951
    @snowwolf2951 Год назад +74

    I'm an American but Sharpe and this song make me proud to know my heritage

    • @ReclusiveHTID
      @ReclusiveHTID Год назад +2

      The blonde dude with a cigar in his mouth, Leroy, is an American. He's a loyalist though.

    • @alanpearson7554
      @alanpearson7554 11 месяцев назад +2

      If you look at the collars on the riflemen's jackets they are red, this is part of their history, the original rifle regiment formed during the war of independence was called the Royal American Regiment. Bandsmen in the modern Rifles show their origin by the hackles in their headgear, the large hackle is in memory of the Royal Americans

    • @Mr_Dumpty
      @Mr_Dumpty 11 месяцев назад +2

      It makes me sad that we bash each other so much 😢
      Two great countries with a great alliance, I hope it lasts! Long live the special relationship!
      🇺🇸 🤝🇬🇧

    • @iainclark5964
      @iainclark5964 5 месяцев назад

      ​@Mr_Dumpty There is no special relationship and there certainly won't be when Trump becomes the first US dictator!

  • @derekmax6405
    @derekmax6405 9 месяцев назад +7

    He respected and admired the British who gave their lives against the tyranny and madness of Bonaparte.
    Greetings from Mexico

    • @BicBradley
      @BicBradley 3 месяца назад +1

      Most people don't even know the Mexicans drove the French out of Mexico a couple times. Well played!

  • @aaronbazis4419
    @aaronbazis4419 Год назад +133

    I absolutely loved watching this series growing up and love being able to rediscovered it now. Over the hills is a song my brothers and I still sing.

    • @davidross5735
      @davidross5735 Год назад +5

      I recommend the books too, if you haven't read em. Very good reading 🙂

    • @johncartmell1129
      @johncartmell1129 Год назад +4

      John Tams is the singer, played ‘Hagman the poacher’ in the series. A very successful traditional folk singer in his own right.

    • @johncartmell1129
      @johncartmell1129 Год назад +3

      ‘King George commands..’ is also a lyric change from the original (historically) song ‘Queen Anne commands’. Both military piss up songs !

  • @chrisroderick2109
    @chrisroderick2109 Год назад +11

    That man was born too play Sharpe!!

  • @damiengirvan5020
    @damiengirvan5020 4 месяца назад +10

    I'm an Irish man..... But this makes me think of Yorkshire.....

  • @Freddie1980
    @Freddie1980 Год назад +84

    It's a shame ITV doesn't make TV like this any longer

    • @jamesm1755
      @jamesm1755 Год назад

      Series Name?

    • @alecgiroux
      @alecgiroux Год назад +5

      Sharpe (based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell)

    • @alecgiroux
      @alecgiroux Год назад +1

      ​@@jamesm1755 see my comment above

    • @alessiodecarolis
      @alessiodecarolis Год назад +11

      Naturally they would make it "inclusive", with at least 1/3 of the characters not "white", another 1/3 "gender fluid" and the remains....well, you can guess.

    • @brenda1378
      @brenda1378 Год назад +1

      🤣@@alessiodecarolis

  • @nancyblackett8777
    @nancyblackett8777 Год назад +45

    Brilliant song. Excellent tv series. Magnificent books. Hurrah for Sharpe and the fantastic Mr Cornwell!

    • @sbkenn1
      @sbkenn1 Год назад

      Don't praise Cromwell in Ireland.
      Are you a fan of Arthur Ransome too ?

    • @margaretgarside5617
      @margaretgarside5617 Год назад +1

      ????@@sbkenn1

    • @sbkenn1
      @sbkenn1 Год назад

      @@margaretgarside5617 you mentioned Nancy Blacket, one of the main characters in Swallows and Amazons

    • @brenda1378
      @brenda1378 Год назад +2

      CORNWALL, he wrote the books. @@sbkenn1

    • @lyndajohnston3272
      @lyndajohnston3272 6 месяцев назад +1

      He's Bernard Cornwell

  • @lindsayfrost2303
    @lindsayfrost2303 Год назад +17

    Earlier this year I was walking into Salamanca, passing the old battlefield. This song was playing in my head.

  • @dwnstringer
    @dwnstringer Год назад +18

    This is why most of us love historical reenacting to make films and TV series like this.

  • @michaelnorton7882
    @michaelnorton7882 Год назад +11

    Finest of the finest!🇬🇧🇮🇪

  • @nealkrueger6097
    @nealkrueger6097 Год назад +5

    I think it was great how Sgt Harper and Lt. Sharp were mortal enemies at first, but by the third episodes they had a mutual respect and understanding that Sharp was not like the socially inbred Officer's Corps . He was a true soldier since he was from the enlisted Ranks and was from a lower class than 99% of the officers.

    • @STOPDELETINGMYCOMMENTSFASCISTS
      @STOPDELETINGMYCOMMENTSFASCISTS 9 месяцев назад

      I loved the engineering major as well. I love how wellington pretty much tells that stupid nobleman to keep his name out his damn mouth. Intresting to me that the only officers who had to earn their rank were the engineer corps.....essayons indeed

  • @scotsgreys6121
    @scotsgreys6121 Год назад +36

    Iconic song for an iconic series and not to forget the iconic sharpe books. I'm from Austria and my children are visiting a french school, but my son and I we love to sing that old british song. In other versions this traditional song traces back to the early 18th century and the times of queen Anne. In Austria we don't have such iconic military songs like this and others (british grenadiers, Marlborough and me....).

    • @17461771
      @17461771 Год назад

      Yes it is certainly a shame that Otto von Habsburg did not get to take the seal of His father. Well. Never say never...

    • @juergenvogel7050
      @juergenvogel7050 5 месяцев назад

      Sir, Austria does not have great military songs? Maybe take a look, and do not forget the marches.....www.bmlv.gv.at/download_archiv/pdfs/soldatenliederbuch.pdf

  • @TomWatsonB1
    @TomWatsonB1 9 месяцев назад +14

    Hail the glorious dead. Our ancestors sacrificed much (sometimes unnecessarily) for their country.

    • @Supreme-Mentalman
      @Supreme-Mentalman 2 месяца назад +1

      And now it’s being put in the bin. 🗑️

    • @British-v1h
      @British-v1h Месяц назад +2

      This wasn’t unnecessary as if they didn’t fight the French we would be French now

    • @grendalsnap7158
      @grendalsnap7158 Месяц назад

      @@Supreme-Mentalman Welcome to brown Britain

  • @rogerkay8603
    @rogerkay8603 2 года назад +95

    Loved the song and the series, good times. Thanks for posting.

    • @turboegon
      @turboegon Год назад +3

      Right! I'm proud to have all books all movies and the soundtrack.

    • @cbhlde
      @cbhlde Год назад +3

      Agreed and greetings from Germany.
      Listening to cool music; well, that's soldiering! ;)

  • @peter4Flags
    @peter4Flags 9 месяцев назад +4

    RIP Soldiers 🙏 Thank you very much for this lovely version .

  • @gerarddelmonte8776
    @gerarddelmonte8776 Год назад +17

    John Tams is a genius. The best version of this song, ever.

  • @IrishTechnicalThinker
    @IrishTechnicalThinker Год назад +5

    This is best war drama ever made, next to band of brothers in my opinion. Every character is brilliant, even the bad guys.

  • @JoshuaDixon-wc7xd
    @JoshuaDixon-wc7xd Год назад +4

    One of the best historical series ever

  • @CasperScott-qq6ip
    @CasperScott-qq6ip Год назад +43

    the first sharpe came out when i was 14 and dating a soldier lol . i loved him , i married him and i lost him . painful yes but im so proud. we do not give our armed forces enough support Danny 1972 2008

    • @heresytoburn3358
      @heresytoburn3358 10 месяцев назад +2

      You where dating a soldier at 14?

    • @CasperScott-qq6ip
      @CasperScott-qq6ip 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@heresytoburn3358 yes he was 18. Age of consent is 16 for sex not dating

    • @AlwaysAC
      @AlwaysAC 5 месяцев назад

      @@heresytoburn335880’s was a different time, no one would have raised an eyebrow

  • @buderimosteopath641
    @buderimosteopath641 Год назад +8

    The Chosen Men

  • @sbkenn1
    @sbkenn1 Год назад +25

    I love that song. I love John Tams's style and hope to get to one of his performances some day.

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 Год назад +3

      Just checked, and pleased to see he's still alive this Christmas.

  • @jaczob6719
    @jaczob6719 Год назад +160

    Here's forty shillings on the drum
    For those who volunteer to come,
    To 'list and fight the foe today
    Over the Hills and far away
    [Chorus]
    O'er the hills and o'er the Main
    Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
    King George commands and we obey
    Over the hills and far away
    When duty calls me I must go
    To stand and face another foe
    But part of me will always stray
    Over the hills and far away
    [Chorus]
    O'er the hills and o'er the Main
    Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
    King George commands and we obey
    Over the hills and far away
    If I should fall to rise no more
    As many comrades did before
    Then ask the pipes and drums to play
    Over the hills and far away
    [Chorus]
    Then fall in lads behind the drum
    With colours blazing like the sun
    Along the road to come what may
    Over the hills and far away
    O'er the hills and o'er the Main
    Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
    King George commands and we obey
    Over the hills and far away
    O'er the hills and o'er the Main
    Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
    King George commands and we obey
    Over the hills and far away
    O'er the hills and o'er the Main
    Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
    King George commands and we obey
    Over the hills and far away

    • @Glum1964
      @Glum1964 Год назад +9

      Thank you.🙏🏼

    • @jaczob6719
      @jaczob6719 Год назад +3

      @@Glum1964 np

    • @realhorrorshow8547
      @realhorrorshow8547 Год назад +6

      I always liked:
      And we will live more happier lives
      Abandoning both brats and wives
      We'll be free to drink all day
      Over the hills and far away

    • @jaczob6719
      @jaczob6719 Год назад +2

      @@realhorrorshow8547 😆

    • @mjona1754
      @mjona1754 Год назад +1

      I had £10 in 1997 😇

  • @coegj
    @coegj Год назад +10

    I've got the entire series on DVD and just love to re-watch it at least once a year. Never ever get tired of it.

  • @kevinu.k.7042
    @kevinu.k.7042 Год назад +6

    This is a beautiful song. Sung with a certain acceptance of fate.
    I wish it was always listened to with this footage which shows the meaninglessness of the soldiers life.
    And, the stupidity of war.

  • @williamgraham2708
    @williamgraham2708 Год назад +7

    Best series ever!

  • @johngracie1960
    @johngracie1960 Год назад +4

    Adored this series and l'm still an avid viewer of the repeats....super. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍❤️

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 9 месяцев назад +5

    Three cheers for His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

  • @edwardgreenhalgh960
    @edwardgreenhalgh960 Год назад +5

    Damn , I loved this series

  • @margaretgarside5617
    @margaretgarside5617 Год назад +8

    I love this series--and this song.

  • @piotrd.4850
    @piotrd.4850 Год назад +4

    Beautiful song!

  • @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.
    @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. Год назад +27

    I was always sorry Major LeRoy wasn't made a regular, he was such fun.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Год назад +2

      After the disaster at the bridge that caused Major Lennox to die the South Essex is broken up leaving Captain Leroy with no command, but Wellington reforms it for the Battle of Talavera . Simmerson runs away as expected and Leroy holds the line, repulsing the French with Sharpe's new loading technique and the day is won. Sharpe's Light Company is detached from the South Essex not long after, so Leroy stays in the South Essex and rises to its commander. When Sharpe's company is returned to the South Essex ,, Leroy has sadly died (Sharpe's Honour)

    • @ReclusiveHTID
      @ReclusiveHTID 11 месяцев назад

      Leroy is a slaver.

    • @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.
      @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. 4 месяца назад

      @@ReclusiveHTID If he fights for England, I don't give a damn.

    • @dennis2376
      @dennis2376 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ReclusiveHTID If he is fighting for the British he is not. Slaver is outlawed in Britain at this time.

    • @ReclusiveHTID
      @ReclusiveHTID 4 месяца назад

      @@dennis2376 He made his money selling slaves, at least TV Leroy did, book Leroy says nothing about where his wealth came from. That doesn't change just because he's fighting for King George.

  • @muadibadder3345
    @muadibadder3345 Год назад +3

    just binged the series, and wow, definitelly one of best historical shows I've watched. Lots of memorable characters, and effin Sean Bean, Ned Stark himself as Major. Sharpe is ☝️💯 This makes me want to read da books
    And just found out dat dis show is where the term or meme " dats some damn good soldiering " came from, or at least made it famous, is, ok 😂

  • @krag9083
    @krag9083 Год назад +6

    When trying to get my little girl to sleep as a baby i sang this, now four, I genuinely heard her attempt to sing it to another kid the other day.😂

  • @francistindale9520
    @francistindale9520 Год назад +1

    An iconic tune, great vocals John

  • @mildandbitter
    @mildandbitter Год назад +3

    Wellington; "they came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way"

  • @CaptainKarate
    @CaptainKarate Год назад +16

    God bless the British Empire! My eternal respect to my Southern Irish Grandfather Private Michael Quinn - joined aged 14 years; served WWI, Colonial Policing inter-war years; WWII, BEF France, pulled from water at Dunkirk (3rd time of going under - "Wasn`t my time" - Grandads words - by Little Boat name of White Foam) part of clean up crew after Coventry air raids. I hope I die making you proud😇😇😇😇😇😇

    • @CoalMiningTown
      @CoalMiningTown 9 месяцев назад +2

      Bloody hell what a bloke, good on the fella.

    • @ConorOKeeffe-oc2xn
      @ConorOKeeffe-oc2xn 8 месяцев назад

      They were all Irish protestants.Catholics were not allowed on the British army .

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 Год назад +40

    Always liked Captain Leroy's "Awright boys....FAWR!!!" As a gun-toting American I appreciate this scene immensely.

    • @thomaswilliams4543
      @thomaswilliams4543 Год назад +6

      *throws hat* "Let's load up and do some shootin' boys!" It's a fantastic scene

    • @tomservo5347
      @tomservo5347 Год назад +5

      @@thomaswilliams4543 Or at the bridge fiasco he yells "Gawd-dammit!!" before charging in to rescue Sharpe.

  • @hibbidyjibbidyy
    @hibbidyjibbidyy Год назад +1

    i looove anderson, what a dude

  • @russparker1647
    @russparker1647 Год назад +3

    I remember the first time I heard this amazing song when it first came out. I was 15 years old and it blew me away. Ya I am that old. I had never heard anything like it before. It inspired in me a lifetime love of traditional blues. Thank you Eric Burden and the Animals

  • @chapmasi
    @chapmasi Год назад +34

    Those hairs on the neck are standing up again...... 1st Rank...... FIRE!!!!

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад +1

      It's the same when I was a historical reenactor hearing those words for acw

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 9 месяцев назад +28

    GOD SAVE THE KING.
    LONG LIVE THE KING.

  • @spmoran4703
    @spmoran4703 9 месяцев назад

    I loved this series

  • @jamescunningham1973
    @jamescunningham1973 6 месяцев назад +3

    We are chosen men of The Royal Green Jackets

  • @janetball4686
    @janetball4686 Год назад +3

    I enjoyed watching the series and the music was out of this world

  • @Musket001-n6h
    @Musket001-n6h День назад

    God save the king 👑🇬🇧

  • @bluecheese20401
    @bluecheese20401 Год назад +22

    At least this told a proper story...unlike the napoleon film

  • @andrewjones5513
    @andrewjones5513 6 месяцев назад

    This was chosen to be played at my uncles funeral last year , rest well ar kid

  • @RobertNAdams
    @RobertNAdams 3 месяца назад

    This is a most excellent video. Great work!

  • @JoshuaDixon-wc7xd
    @JoshuaDixon-wc7xd 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great song great tv series.

  • @AlfieHobbs-sd6up
    @AlfieHobbs-sd6up 8 месяцев назад +15

    This was played at my grandads funeral 😢🕊😭

    • @chrisbee1984
      @chrisbee1984 7 месяцев назад +3

      and it will at mine. What a beautiful song to celebrate his life, you did him proud I bet.

    • @GingerBlue84
      @GingerBlue84 7 месяцев назад

      How lovely

    • @robnewman6101
      @robnewman6101 6 месяцев назад

      R.I.P

  • @newfightclub
    @newfightclub Год назад +7

    Hey Colonel, I watched the Serie...I am from Germany - Greetings to my friends in UK !!!

  • @noahtoscano1865
    @noahtoscano1865 Год назад +8

    Firing 3 rounds a minute in any weather now thats good soldiering 💂‍♀️🇬🇧

  • @ViktoriousDead
    @ViktoriousDead Год назад +4

    John tams, the man can’t miss

  • @iannoble404
    @iannoble404 Год назад

    john tams voice is a blessing

  • @joshuaschoonyan3263
    @joshuaschoonyan3263 Год назад +5

    God Bless you Sir

  • @Maxcraft12
    @Maxcraft12 2 года назад +9

    Ah the memories

  • @rombie111
    @rombie111 10 месяцев назад +8

    Rule Britannia, Greetings from Germany 👍🏻

  • @caiosantana4837
    @caiosantana4837 Год назад +2

    That's what I call... soldiering!

  • @snerper
    @snerper Год назад +7

    We could do with a few of these lads guarding our beaches today!👍 True British grit, a very rare commodity today!

    • @Ein_Kunde_
      @Ein_Kunde_ Год назад

      Guard against what?
      Britain is not under attack.

    • @snerper
      @snerper Год назад

      @@Ein_Kunde_ REALLY?

    • @Ein_Kunde_
      @Ein_Kunde_ Год назад

      @@snerper Not by something you could guard against. Like a foreign military.
      The migrants are something different. The soldiers could not guard against them beacuse they are mosty legal as "refugees".
      If the soldiers should defend against them the government would first have to make immigration of "refugees" illegal. And it has not done that.
      So the soldiers would just stand guard on the beaches but not be permitted to do anything.
      It is all a problem of politics. Not of military power.

    • @yourmum256
      @yourmum256 Год назад +2

      ​@@Ein_Kunde_it's a problem of will not politics

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Год назад

      @@Ein_Kunde_ oh keep pumping out your fear and hate.

  • @paulpeterson4216
    @paulpeterson4216 Год назад +6

    The best version

  • @rickwilmot9127
    @rickwilmot9127 Год назад +1

    Madness!

  • @juliewilliams306
    @juliewilliams306 Год назад +13

    John Tams is my second cousin and although I am biased his voice is stunning

  • @cuebj
    @cuebj Год назад +19

    Seen many such films, TV, video clips. Just thought - once hit, they fall to ground and lie still. Reality was shattered limbs, shocked silence, then howling and swearing in pain and holding or pressing on injured area (both alleviate the pain) - as with any bad sporting or construction trade injury. Very few would die gracefully and quickly.
    By contrast, Christopher Lee was in a film where director wanted someone knifed from behind to go down with noise and struggle. Lee pointed out that's not what happens. They can't make a sound as lungs punctured. Lee was in SOE in WW2. Cast and crew quiet after he said it

    • @joshbennett3768
      @joshbennett3768 Год назад

      You will makw noise if you are stabbed in the back, that I know.

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад

      These are films and TV series there is a thing called health and safety, has with anything to do with war person safety comes first. Most of these people have training and know how to fire and pretend to die, swearing might look good but then the rating for what should be a family show changes to adults only. War is war and blood etc might look great but for those of us who have to wear our uniforms it's a pain in the butt to get out fake blood. You don't have to watch these programmes if you are looking for real blood and guts.

    • @voxdraconia4035
      @voxdraconia4035 Год назад +1

      If front line, you should fall hit or not. Then you wait for the next line be in front and get up while officers look the other way. Only sensible thing to do in this most silly style of warfare. Hilarious if everyone on both sides had done that from the start...or turned around and shot their own officers. World peace achieved...

  • @theoalexander-u8y
    @theoalexander-u8y Год назад +1

    God I love patriotic music it is so deep

  • @howardkoontz4735
    @howardkoontz4735 9 месяцев назад

    The series should continue

  • @hypersp3ce596
    @hypersp3ce596 2 года назад +7

    Soldiering at its finest

    • @atomicbong7597
      @atomicbong7597 2 года назад

      Romantic...talk it over with God before you commit - by the time your soldier days are over, you'll thank yourself.
      A soldier prevents war - or keep his own contrained and limited to guard code and principle.
      Fail and none will be around to judge your failure.
      Nukem if you got em.
      ruclips.net/video/GQXy84W2AZU/видео.html
      Only freedom in war is to refuse an unjust order - that's soldiering.

  • @Ghoulza
    @Ghoulza Год назад +171

    this series was amazing, it would have been better with a bigger budget, but man they made it great with what they had, imagine an HBO series with these actors

    • @1daveyp
      @1daveyp Год назад +9

      OOhhww, gosh, yeahh...that cast and HBO cash and production values. Dammit, now I'm all of a quiver.

    • @marcus1992000
      @marcus1992000 Год назад +27

      The low budget is part of the charm

    • @philvanderlaan5942
      @philvanderlaan5942 Год назад +3

      What? You want 2-3000 French with cannon an horses and half that number of English
      When 200 of each is more than enough

    • @Ghoulza
      @Ghoulza Год назад +2

      @@philvanderlaan5942 meant the effects and quality but now that mention it .....

    • @lmperialEra
      @lmperialEra Год назад +1

      And then they can finally afford historical uniforms

  • @reidycruise
    @reidycruise 2 года назад +8

    Awesome dude

  • @peterholland8749
    @peterholland8749 Год назад +6

    I worked at a napolionic barracks and play this song many off time

  • @brianmoore9204
    @brianmoore9204 Год назад +1

    swift and bold great song

  • @nw57
    @nw57 Год назад +3

    nicely done video for a great series.

  • @jonathanwetherell3609
    @jonathanwetherell3609 2 года назад +24

    Love John Tam's music.

    • @elizabethadams8990
      @elizabethadams8990 Год назад +1

      We (my daughter & I), had this played at my late husband's funeral ❤💜 My daughter Laura contacted John Tam himself for a CD. My husband would have approved. We were both in the Army.

    • @jonathanwetherell3609
      @jonathanwetherell3609 Год назад

      @@elizabethadams8990 I have seen him live several times. The music is great but his quiet, thoughtful, speeches between songs also stuck in my mind.

    • @steveosborne2297
      @steveosborne2297 Год назад +1

      @@jonathanwetherell3609 Must admit I was fortunate enough to have John drink in my local on a regular occasion we’ve had some very good chats he’s a lovely guy

    • @zacmumblethunder7466
      @zacmumblethunder7466 Год назад

      His music for the stage play of Warhorse (much better than the movie) is marvellous.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 9 месяцев назад +3

    Now Maitland! Nows Your Time! Fire!

  • @JosephAlanMeador
    @JosephAlanMeador Год назад +2

    Best brown paper and paraffin oil! And this song. THAT'S soldiering.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 9 месяцев назад +1

    This song reminds me of East Anglia.

  • @callmecon7105
    @callmecon7105 Год назад +2

    Loved this

  • @jamieshrimpton8021
    @jamieshrimpton8021 10 месяцев назад +1

    God save the king

  • @jimbrown8108
    @jimbrown8108 Год назад +2

    Read the book series and then watched the tv series, both are great

  • @750drums
    @750drums 5 месяцев назад +1

    The great traditional singer John Tams on vocal

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater Год назад +2

    This song must go back quite a ways, I saw a RUclips version where they're obeying Queen Anne. She was about a hundred years earlier.

    • @iangerahty3422
      @iangerahty3422 Год назад

      There is even a nursery rhyme version which if my memory serves is pre Napoleonic Wars.

  • @GunnerRM
    @GunnerRM Год назад +8

    0:17 Mister Wonka played a huge part in the war effort before committing to chocolate.

  • @berniezhang8678
    @berniezhang8678 7 месяцев назад +3

    What a terrible fate it has to be for an Englishman to find himself at the tailend of a moribund empire. Why Lord , why? They ought to have prevailed by right, the world would have been the better for it had they prevailed against the odds. A globe with England at the helm for all time would have been the closest we could have ever wished to have approximated heaven in this vale of tears.

  • @Normalmuzzleloader
    @Normalmuzzleloader Год назад +1

    "O'er the hills and far away!"

  • @dennismitchell5414
    @dennismitchell5414 9 месяцев назад +1

    " UP MAITLAND ...... NOWS YOUR TIME "

  • @TheNicky9905
    @TheNicky9905 Год назад +6

    Nice, I like it :)

  • @raymondyarosis4146
    @raymondyarosis4146 Год назад +4

    Well done

  • @ArchStanton-o6m
    @ArchStanton-o6m 9 месяцев назад +1

    Major Lennox paid with his life

  • @busgreaser
    @busgreaser 5 месяцев назад

    The blood rises. Over the top boys!

  • @howardkoontz4735
    @howardkoontz4735 Год назад +1

    Brave or coward, they march into the fire.

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Год назад +1

    The thing is to look sharpe.

  • @pacificdragon1
    @pacificdragon1 Год назад +15

    I know this is acting, but in real life men fought wars this way. All I can say is to fight a war in battle lines with muskets and rifles took a lot of guts!

    • @pobvic
      @pobvic Год назад

      They certainly spilled a lot of guts

    • @steveosborne2297
      @steveosborne2297 Год назад +1

      @@pobvic My great grandfather joined the 49th Regiment of foot in August 1818 and he managed to survive 25 years somehow

    • @williamgraham2708
      @williamgraham2708 Год назад +2

      "....I know you can fire three rounds a minute, but can you stand?"

    • @dwnstringer
      @dwnstringer Год назад +1

      Alot of men didn't just die of injuries the also died from diseases, malnourished, etc

    • @davidross5735
      @davidross5735 Год назад

      @@steveosborne2297 wow, that was over two hundred years ago, your family must be very long lived!