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

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  • Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
  • '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
    @freedompodcast4518 5 месяцев назад +82

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

  • @AvaT42
    @AvaT42 6 месяцев назад +130

    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
      @user-hl7nt1og7k 2 месяца назад

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

  • @AtlasGamingTX
    @AtlasGamingTX 6 месяцев назад +84

    2:41 “LIAR!”

    • @alefergo1527
      @alefergo1527 5 месяцев назад +16

      1:16 "What?"

    • @castielsosa8512
      @castielsosa8512 2 месяца назад

      Fr

    • @InvaliDidea123
      @InvaliDidea123 13 дней назад

      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.

  • @TheofficialSirenheadr
    @TheofficialSirenheadr 6 месяцев назад +52

    Love British humor

  • @aaronhall9077
    @aaronhall9077 4 месяца назад +22

    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
    @gaminguniverse2477 3 месяца назад +12

    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
      @tateranus4365 2 месяца назад

      other than the Irish!

    • @randalf1126
      @randalf1126 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @Dackdagoori
    @Dackdagoori 6 месяцев назад +16

    Oh it’s a Lovely War!

  • @user-ct5mi3zg9o
    @user-ct5mi3zg9o 25 дней назад +3

    I sure do love lumbs of onion in my tea

  • @Falkriim
    @Falkriim 5 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @pyaewa-cc5fl
    @pyaewa-cc5fl 5 дней назад

    How Can Be The War Lovely?!

  • @Historybrickfilms
    @Historybrickfilms 3 месяца назад +2

    Amazing 🤩

  • @Meautisticbagel
    @Meautisticbagel 3 месяца назад +2

    1914: it’s a lovely war😃
    1918:😐

  • @BlueOceanDaGamer
    @BlueOceanDaGamer 3 месяца назад +5

    British Soviet/Russian Japanese American and German warsongs SLAP

  • @muriloridolfi1898
    @muriloridolfi1898 3 месяца назад +8

    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.

  • @Kent_toaster_4
    @Kent_toaster_4 5 месяцев назад +3

    Apple sauce hmmm yummy.

  • @Hpman692
    @Hpman692 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @avus-kw2f213
    @avus-kw2f213 6 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @Jason_V_the_great
      @Jason_V_the_great 6 месяцев назад +16

      To prevent the collapse of France

    • @avus-kw2f213
      @avus-kw2f213 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@Jason_V_the_great that explains the BEF but not conscription

    • @whatforaaron2494
      @whatforaaron2494 6 месяцев назад

      @@Jason_V_the_greatThe Germans invading Belgium to get to France.

    • @jennijenjenjen
      @jennijenjenjen 5 месяцев назад +7

      We honoured our treaty with Belgium

    • @avus-kw2f213
      @avus-kw2f213 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@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
    @eliteplier 5 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  5 месяцев назад +11

      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
      @eliteplier 5 месяцев назад +1

      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
      @AtlasGamingTX 5 месяцев назад

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

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  5 месяцев назад +6

      @@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
      @lucaogno9047 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @MattanzaMafiaFedora
    @MattanzaMafiaFedora 6 месяцев назад +3

    This is such a pretentious form pf propaganda...

    • @airlinesecret6725
      @airlinesecret6725 6 месяцев назад +30

      LOL, you have no clue what sarcasm is do you !

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  6 месяцев назад +41

      It’s a satirical song, you can literally hear people shouting ‘liar’ and the end of each verse.

    • @sirisaacbrock798
      @sirisaacbrock798 6 месяцев назад +14

      It's a satirical song...

    • @ObviousTroll69-i6k
      @ObviousTroll69-i6k 6 месяцев назад +17

      Not british = opinion discarded

    • @N3ROWASHERE
      @N3ROWASHERE 6 месяцев назад +3

      No shit Sherlock. Next you gonna tell me drugs are bad?

  • @user-ci6tz1rg5e
    @user-ci6tz1rg5e 5 месяцев назад +11

    Thanks for the great music and video. With warm greetings from Kyiv 🇺🇦✊🇬🇧