The Irish Rovers, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (w/ lyrics)
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Song is from best of "The Irish Rovers, 50 Years" CD - Vol. 2
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Just to clarify the tune was likely written in the early 1700s it was called Johnny fill up the bowl which was a drinking song. It wasn't until 1862 that a man rewrote it for his sister who's fiance was a soldier.
There was also an Irishman who used that tune to do When Johny Comes Marching Home. It was made around the Civil War era but used the same tune as Johny I Hardly New Ya
@@epicallyeverything1872 Actually the two come from Johnny fill up the bowl and are unrelated (according to a study a the university of Tennesee) but Johnny I hardly knew ye probably came first as it is about the wars in Sri Lanka in the late 17 and early 1800s predating Johnny comes marching home by about 50 years.
@@bearwiththumbs Johnny I hardly knew ye hat different melody at first. It was AFTER Johnny comes marching that Joseph B. Geoghegan wrote this version of the song with the melody of Johnny fill up the bowl
@@theclockwork6598 the oldest written record of this song is in a small book of Irish folk songs published in 1811, although oral versions are suspected to predate that, possibly by quite a bit.
@@davispeterson1876 that's true I'm only saying that it adapted the melody of Johnny fill up the bowl in 1867
We all hardly know Johnny but we know shit goes down when he comes marching.
And i feel gay
@@er_dragosaurus_rex we all feel gay when johnny comes marching home
@@theworldoverheavan560 and we’ll all drink stone wine when johnny comes marching home
We barley know him, but we keep sending him to undisclosed locations “over there”
My favorite line is 'and the women they will all turn out' lmao
An anti war song about an Irish lad who fought in the Kandyan Wars in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka) for the British in the early 1800's. Arrives home sans arms, legs and an eye. Unrecognisable to his old sweetheart. Fact - the 83rd ( County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot fought in Ceylon from 1817 -1821 during the 1817/18 Uva rebellion. A somewhat brutal period of Sri Lankan colonial history - the male population over 18 was massacred in the province of Uva.
Thanks for the info.
@@GAGONMYCOREY how
@@GAGONMYCOREY no u
He’s also missing an arm, but interesting!
Thanks for this!
War is a terrible business.....You can feel the regret, anguish from being dragged off to war and coming back like a broken man. My grandfather who was a Scottish war veteran used to sing this song whenever he mourned his friends during the war. He told me an Irish friend of his taught him this song on the battlefield. Good thing they both came back alive.
Witch war?
@@celestialbro336 World War II
@@MrJuanito931228 ah
A late comment perhaps, but it made me think of a quote from Allen Ginsberg:
“War is good business. Invest your son.”
Makes me pretty sad and weary….
@MrJuanito931228 Do U Have Detail Of Your Grandfather, He May Be On Wikipedia Or The British War Memorial
I get goosebumps every time he says:"...the enemy NEVER slew ye..".I don't know why :p It's amazing
The enemy never slew IRELAND! The undefeatable Fighting Irish.
yeap imagine to listen it from sweet Santiano. Wundervoll. a masterpiece of art
Me too...
It's nearly, not never.
@Dalishar Arcturus fair enough. Thanks
When an anti-war song becomes pro-war.
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" came first, but "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl" was the original.
Look up what happened to “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier”
It makes me want to fight, I spent 12 years in the army :)
@@DJxSGGxNeo God Bless you
wait so this song was anti war then it became pro war?
Poor Johnny, He'll never leave her, He'll never come marching home, tis a shame, I hardly knew him.
아련한 멜로디다. 고난의 세월, 지난한 삶, 전쟁, 기아, 죽음, 절망, 사랑 등의 애환을 살아가는 인간이 부르는 노래다. 가사를 몰라도 음률에 다 전해져 온다
한국댓이다...
Damnit. Why are all Korean comments so well-put?
I know right @ottogreen2749
The virgin Johnny Comes Marching Home vs The Chad Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Cato The Teenager BAHAHAAHA
*Triggerd When Janezech comes home from war sounds*
@Steven Tsakiris Hell truly has a place reserved for you
@Steven Tsakiris That is an unforgivable sin...
@Steven Tsakiris you should be ashamed of yourself (again should )
Expectations: When Johnny comes marchin' home again...
Reality: Johnny I hardly knew ya...
Truly wonderful realization.
*A N T*
*cuts my hair short*
what my dad says: I just think it suits you better long
what he means: 3:08
Same but homophobic family members.
Hahaha
lol.
You fucking wot? Short hair isn't gay at all.
@@jamesharding3459 I'm female
Normal wolves: _"Awooooo"_
Irish wolves: _"Hurroo"_
They did drive the wolf population of Ireland to extinction, then the deer and elk, all thanks to their giant dogs; they literally respected their dogs so much that they took up their howling and a title given only to great warriors translated to “hound”
😂😂😂😂
@@wazzlesmo Like Cú Chulainn, the hound of Ulster?
This is such a sad song behind such a merry tune. That contrast gives me unexplainable goosebumps every time I listen
"Go ahead, call the British. What are they gonna do, unbomb the car?"
this isnt come out ye black and tans, wrong video mate
*_nah just nuke london_*
@@kidalcoholic4092 lmao
@@awddfg vanguard class nuclear subs: *heyy*
NUKE LONDON AND IMA PULL AN UNO REVERSE CAR ON YOUR ARSE AND NAUKE YOUR TINY ARSE COUNTRY MATE
americans: hurrah
irish: hurroo
edit: thanks for 560 like
I love how this is what people watch in quarantine, lol
dÿłåń ėâtš çàkē U.S marines: "Oorah!" (Yes it's different. Lol)
Russian: ura
It is of Mongolian origin. Russians brought it to Europe. A yell shouted before the attack.
Actually, Hurroo is just a mournful version of Hurrah.
English farmers: ooo arr
This might sound weird but this song really helps me sleep
Now I know what I will sing to my child to help em sleep.
I can relate!
You sleep, yes, but what kind of dreams do you have?
That does sound weird. Perhaps u were in the 1861 civil war. Sleep well!
Same!
Today I was told white people had no culture. I laughed as I muted them and began to play this song.
"So low in flesh, so high in bone" is a brutal way to say that someone died
It's not even that
It's just that he's sickly from the listed grevious injuries
I belive that means "You are starved and weak" like you can see their bones through his skin.
@@passonthestar3689 more like “stickly” seeing how he has more bones than flesh
Brutal way to say he has no legs too
He didnt die ... "the enemy NEVER slew ye"
"So low in flesh, so high in bone" = "skin and bone"
America: You stole this.
Ireland: Well atleast it sounds better, pal.
America: NOoO
Ireland: *Starts playing the bagpipe*
The bagpipe is scottish.
@@useyournogos6845 and irish
@@useyournogos6845 ...And Irish and English and Welsh and Cornish and Manx and Breton and Galician and Asturian and Cantabrian and Leonese and Majorcan
@@pablorojas103 and Italians too, to some extenct
Scottish niggas: *ANGERY BAGPIPE NOISES*
Irish songs are the best songs :D greeting from France, I hope to see you guys here one day :)
Jordan FISSEUX one day wee man! I will save ye a pint :)
Bernard Doyle I dont drink alcohol at all except for one day, the only beer I drink is a 1/2 pint of Guinness on the 17th of March :) I loved my trip to Ireland and I just want to go back there at least once :)
They're ded
@@Slobbynobby lol
Was in Dublin, love the Irish folk song ...but don't forget their gueiness ...
Damn my country has amazing music
It's English.
Teacher there's a new student he's Irish
Girls: gross
Boys: ..
You just made me and boys have leaky eyes.
We won't ever forget you, we won't ever let you down.
We won't ever run around and desert you.
otherside2501 our day will come
never gona give you up, never gona let you down
man what a dark song .
You think this is depressing try "Fighting for Strangers". Very similar song about a boy named Johnny joining the British army and getting all his arms and legs blown off, except where this one ends on an ever so slightly hopefull note, that one ends with Johnny being left in the street to beg and starve, then repeats the first verse about a recruiting sergeant pitching his spiel to another bunch of poor naive teenage fuckwits.
@@davispeterson1876 the creul wars is another one
@Rayan Sharara I'm sure if we were able to get along we would have done so already
War is not pretty nice if ya think abaut it.
This only shows the kind of humor the soldiers had.
Yeah well real war is not like the video games you know people lose limbs and eyes and sometimes their lives.
So sad and beautiful a song.
I don't know where I heard it but I swear I heard an extra verse of this song go:
They're rolling out the guns again huroo huroo
They're rolling out the guns again huroo huroo
They're rolling out the guns again looking for young strong Irish men
But they never will take our sons again
Johnny, I swear it to ya.
thats how my grandma sing it without her cd
Too bad that is not true ....
Please watch the Version of Joan Baez in RUclips, there she sings the Missing Verse !
The man behind the wire: Armoured cars and tanks and guns
Came to take away our sons
But every man must stand behind
The man behind the wire!
There are multiple versions of these songs, these are just the most well known versions.
“So low in flesh, so high in bone”
Jesus Christ this is HAUNTING
Love Ireland! From Michigan, USA
Everybody gangsta until Johnny comes marching home
Im an old. 67 vet & tear up every time i hear this i think bout all vets but also my brothers & sisters who served in vietnam bless all rip those gave all ✌
Thank you for your service ❤️
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service sir.
Criminal war, a waste of young men for big business....
they only served a lost cause a big arms industry. Viet Nam won.
Nothing quite like rediscovering music you knew as a child. I’ve been humming this song for as long as I can remember. I had no idea where it came from, I still don’t know where i heard it, I’m only part Irish and I’m not very familiar with that side of my family as my father died when i was young. i didn’t even know it was a real song... but it somehow feels like I was supposed to know this.
Now, that's good to hear.
the ants go marching
Красивее традиционной Ирландской культуры ничего НЕТ !!!🦄🦄🦄🥜🥜🥜🍞🥖🍺🍻🍺🪢🪢🪢
Is it true a lot of Russians enjoy irish culture and music?- if so why is that?
Facts
@@redwolf7929 I don’t know
@@redwolf7929 it is not limited to irish
and I think it is because in communism there was not a lot of culture
This reminds me of a song my grandma used to sing me.. “the ants go marching one by one harah harah, the ants do marching one by one harah harah! (Verse I can’t remember) The little one stops to tie his shoe and they all go marching down and around the town (repeat)”
yes, it is that tune. I presume you are American, as I am. We know this tune and song as "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and it goes with the same tune, sounding like "When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah!"
There are many many versions of this song, being the two most popular this one and the "When Johnny comes marching home" American version. Both of them beautiful, nonetheless!
@@redrickschuhart3836 this song is really an Irish version of the American one. While this song existed earlier, it wasn’t published with this specific tune until after the American one was.
What if the Ant that stopped to tie their shoe was Irish and didn't want to fight?
today is a day to celebrate, lizzies gone
I just came across a wikipedia article that mentioned this song. Never knew there was such a famous song about an Irish soldier's experience during British colonial wars in Sri Lanka (Island of sulloon = Ceylon = Sivhela = Sri Lanka). The Irish people too have faced so much Hardship because of British imperialism always wish them the best.
It wasn't just British colonial wars
The wars in Sri Lanka were east India trade companies
They hired directly from Ireland separately from the crown
My little sister: sing the ants go marching
Me: TIME TO SAY BYE BYE TO CHILDHOOD
lgbtq butchered this song :(
Not LGBTQ, Blue's Clues pretending to be it.
Irish Rovers rule 😊
Amen to that brother
Imagine hundred of thousands of men singing this as they ran out of the trenches and through no mans land in WW1. Or charging over a field.
I'd like to see a battle where tanks come rolling down a bill with speakers blasting winged hussars
You know this is an anti-war song? WW1 was a completely pointless war that took the lives of many young men, similar to the war this song originally protested. The only war that this song fits in is the Irish struggle for independence from their colonizers and oppressors, the Brits.
@@joseviinikkala1993 well to me it makes sense for World war 1 considering that the world was literally fighting for survival and peace.
@@stubbystudios9811 World War 1 was not a war for survival and peace, it was a pretty pointless war which began mostly because of rivalry, imperialism and the fact that European countries all had alliances with each other that blew stuff way out of proportion. For WW2 you can make the case that it was to stop fascism, but WW1 was just stupid.
@@stubbystudios9811 WW1 was pretty pointless. WW2 was more along the lines of the survival of the free world, atleast in the West/Europe. The Japanese were definently worse colonizers compared to the west given their atrocities, but it wasn't really a war for freedom there except maybe in China
1500's people: Anybody still listening?
2021: YES
2024 Yes
So "When Johnny comes marching home" is just "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" but with modified lyrics?
Robert P. They got the Americans civil war song When Johnny comes marching home
Esti roman :))
@@mysterybox934 Nu, sunt african de sud.
Other way round
@@quarantinejet2312 Oh, okay then.
Girls locker room:omg I hate PE. Where’s that music coming from
Boys locker room:
Old but gold!
Best comment ever
"Oh darling dear, Ye look so queer, Johnny I hardly knew ye."
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Why would an amputee be doing PE?
@@viracocha6093 Maybe your username could contribute to that.
just was listening to sea shanties and now im here
I've been knowing this song since I was a baby and I never knew the title or lyrics. So this made me happier than I thought possible
I spent my childhood up to 10 in Ireland in the 50's and as a primary school boy, this song shook me to the core. It turned the excitement of war into a horror I wasn't ready to imagine. My culture glorified the fight for freedom from the British and all my heroes were young men who had been executed by the British. To give your life for Ireland was as high as you could imagine achieving in this life. The stark reality of these terrible lyrics brought home the horror of 19 year olds being put up against a wall and shot dead.
These times have passed and I now live in an England I cherish and call home.
Children shouldn't have to imagine life's horrors with such clarity. Yet, somewhere in the world, it is always a reality for some poor child.
I can only think of them singly.
Let the children reckon with the knowledge of war, and grow to be men who never send children to learn it the hard way.
@@unclejoeoakland Seems like a never ending circle, my friend. Maybe without suffering theres no peace.
@@fernandoribeiro4051 well peace is something you have to fight for - just ask anybody from ukraine.. oder several african countries which are in different wars for years
Beautiful comment, left me speechless. War IS hell, indeed, but I would like to never see it for myself.
I'm so happy you've learned to live on your knees in England. Did you have to buy your own kneepads and hemorrhoid cream or were they issued to you? I bet Mass pats you on the head for being such a good Paddy Wog.
Too the Irish... and the ants
I really like the Irish culture, partly because they're fucking amazing and they remind me of the dwarves from Lord Of The Rings which is also fucking amazing.
Just think of all the Irish boys that perished at Gallipoli fighting for Winston Churchill's (glorified here in the States) imperialist campaign. The Irish had no grudge against the Turks or the Ottoman Empire (Let me add I'm absolutely not justifying Turkish atrocities past and present against the Armenians, Greeks, Serbs, Kurds and many others.) And the royalists in London had the gall to accuse the leaders of the Easter Rising of betraying their country and executing them and subsequently terrorizing the indigenous Irish (not the Ulstermen, who were foreign colonists) for several years before the (sort of) peace settlement with London. Just like the Soviet occupiers of the Baltics accusing local activists of betraying their "fatherland" that was seeking to destroy their real fatherlands.
"Drums and guns" love it
When goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
When goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
When goin' the road to sweet Athy
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye
A doleful damsel I heard cry
Johnny I hardly knew ye
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh darling dear, ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye
Where are the eyes that looked so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the eyes that looked so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the eyes that looked so mild
When my poor heart you first beguiled
Why did ye run from me and the child
Johnny, I hardly knew ye
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh darling dear, ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye
Where are the legs with which you run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the legs with which you run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the legs with which you run
When first you went to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Johnny, I hardly knew ye
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh darling dear, ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
Ye're an eyeless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to be left with a bowl to beg
Johnny I hardly knew ye
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye
And I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
Yes I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
Oh I'm happy for to see ye home
All from the island of Ceylon
So low in the flesh, so high in the bone
Johnny I hardly knew ye
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy never slew ye
Oh darling dear, ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye
thanks
I was taught wrong
I was taught
The animals went in one by one hurrah hurrah.
I believe, although I could be wrong, that that was the original. It's the one I know too
I love you irish rebels, love from sweden
Also from Sweden.
Looks like Sweden likes Ireland because we both like the Irish.
This song has nothing to do with Irish rebels.
It's about an Irishman who joined the British army, as many did and still do.
It's written by his wife's brother.
I LOVE THE IRISH
As a point of fact, it is not Sulloon. They are referring to the isle of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka).
This song made me remember the irish independancy war quite vividly. Im Italian/German.
o're the hills and o're the main through flanders, portugual 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 asks the fifes and drums to play over the hills and far away
America: Johnny marches home triumphantly.
England: I mean... at least he came back alive?
Ireland: Johnny’s f*ckin dead.
Good one
Every man that goes to war comes home wounded, shot or not.
Only listened to this song like 5 times and somehow know most of the lyrics I just love it SO MUCH
My name is jonny and barely anyone knows me
Hello jonny
Liam Neeson in taken b'é like "i dont know who you are"
Greetings from Brazil
It was all too easy for the British to recruit young Irishmen for the war in Sulloon (Ceylon/Sri Lanka). They would say to one, "Here's your chance to go to Sulloon and be in a big fight." The Irishman would think he said "saloon" and say, "Where do I sign?"
The highly anticipated sequel to When Johnny comes marching home.
Actually, it's a prequel
He aint gonna be marching again, that's for sure
CODY GAKPO, EINTOVENAAR ♥️⚪♥️
So the ants don't go marching?
😂😂
You hardly knew Johnny? Oh, I’ll introduce you. He should be marching home any minute now...
Might you feel gay when he does?
@@theultimategamer5764 I might...
took me ages to find this art piece. thank you.
North Ireland is Ireland 🇷🇴🇮🇪
i keep forgetting the word "queer" used to mean something else
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten." - George Orwell 1984
It still means the same thing if you want it too, no one's taking away the original definition from you.
2:42 Island of Sulloon (Ceylon), modern day Sri Lanka, Johny had injured in the Kandyan War. War against the last Kingdom of Ceylon, the Kandyan Kingdom.
The 520 people who disliked the video are a bit brain damaged
I always wondered where Ants Marching Up the Hill came from. I really like this
Guys, the DNA test came back! I'm 0.000001% Irish, how cultural!
great lol
Im 15% irish and scottish and im from spain xd
Now I found the epic and cool music for my Bard in DnD😊
Since this song is from the Kandyan wars, I have a particular connection to it. My dad's Sinhalese, and hes from Sri Lankan (Ceylon/Sulloon) and my mother is Irish, from, well, Ireland. I was born in Kandy myself, but now live in Ireland.
The Kandyan Kingdom had fought many bitter wars with the Europeans for centuries up until that stage which this song is set. First it was the Portuguese, then it was the Dutch, and finally came the British, which happened to be the ones who finally conquered the region fully.
The Kandyan Sinhalese had no standing army, aside from the King's personal guard and his generals, and thus, during war time, they would raise an army from the local populace, not unlike the famous Fyrds the Anglo-Saxons raised in their time. While quite literally outgunned in many situations, the Kandyans opted for fierce Guerilla war tactics, in order to gain the upper hand on the invaders, often setting traps, ambushes or merely just using the environment to their advantages.
Part of what they did also related to the violent mutilation of Foreign soldiers. You see, if they just killed the enemy, in theory, the leaders would only have to pay a small enough amount in order to compensate the bereaved families. However if they were mutilated, they would have to be compensated more. Also in theory, if people saw their mutilated countrymen, they would be less inclined to enlist. So as a result, many of the British soldiers that survived desperate battles, or were captured alive, were mutilated and often times crippled.
But despite this, many soldiers still came, vying for the military pay that came with their service. A lot of them came from poorer parts of the Empire, including the desperately poor regions of Ireland. The folk song this video shares, stems from the multiated irish soldiers who fought on behalf of Britain, who left a lasting impact on their communities.
I know for definite that my ancestors on my sri lankan side, fought in the war, due to them being part of a noble warrior caste, but for my Irish side, anything goes Although, they would have been far less inclined to help the british in any capacity, due to personal family bereavements from King Henry's and Cromwell's time.
But maybe, just maybe, my ancestors on opposite sides of the war, met and clashed but ultimately didnt kill each other, so that their descendants would eventually meet and then create the disappointment that's currently speaking to you all, today.
This story is great. Especially the ending haha.
@@stijn2472 all good stories have a hint of truth to them after all
@@conmara6492 Sure do
Interesting, thanks for sharing
@romma I know but that poor Johnny has no leg or arm but the king credited him huraa huraa
"Dragonborn comes"?
fuck feeling gay when Johnny comes marching home, i hardly knew him!
"When Johnny comes marching home again
Hurrah! Tra-la!
He's coming by bus or underground
Hurrah! Tra-la!
The woman's eyes will shed a tear
To see a face so beaten in fear
Just around the corner from the ENGLISH CIVIL WAR"
The Clash (aka the ONLY band that matters!) '78
Beautiful song, it's already on my Irish playlist
This song has the same feeling of sorrow and pain as Pink Floyd's "Brothers in Arms" and Paul Simon's "The Side of a Hill"...
Johnny comes marching home is a chad, but this is a lad
Other soldiers: *Singing "When Johnny comes marchin' home"*
Me: *Singing "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"*
There are worse things than war. Being stood against a wall and shot to death because of who your father was. Being pitch capped because someone heard you speaking your own language. Being hanged for wearing your nations former color. Being summarily shot down on the street for having your hands in your pockets, even on the coldest of days. Being put to the sword for being the wife or child of an insurrectionist. Being burned to death on the rack for having been caught dancing one of your native folk dances. Yes, war is horrible but these are all part of the slavery that awaits anyone who is afraid to fight for their freedom. I'm glad you won your freedom back Ireland. Over here in America we are throwing ours away as fast as we can.
Just amazing. Thank you
First heard this as a child…upset me greatly.
I was old the first time I heard it and it upset me greatly, too.
With your guns and drums and guns and drums HURROO HURROO HURROOO!!!
I remember singing this in a middle school concert. I wish it had sounded near this good.
Muchos hemos sentido esa sensación (en mi caso fué en primaria). Saludos desde Madrid, España.
Man, this version is better than the original When Johnny come marching home somehow
Agreed. The Irish Rovers' is the best version I've heard.
This is the original version, it was written some 50 years before When Johnny Comes Marching home although originally sang to a different tune.
When a song can make you feel so proud to be Irish, even though you haven’t even the tiniest drop of Irish blood coursing through your veins 😂
I'm proud to be an Irishman.
yayayayayayaaya
wooooooooooo
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
wowowowwowowoww
hurrirririririrririrr
Sounds like the ants go marching
They both are from this song
Max Mantell the ants come marching is a children's parady to Johny I Hardly New Ye and the American version When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
The ants go marching is satiric song meant to delegitimise war in the eyes of children, that only mindless ants march off to war. "Johnny I hardly knew ye" is a song lamenting the loss or dismemberment of a son or husband in a company war (dutch east India company for example had it's own army) and johnny comes marching home is America mourning its sons, and for bales is a sarcastic retelling of a cavalry raid (from what I can gather from they lyrics)
amputee ant soldiers.
that's because the ants go marching was a lyrical adaptation of this song (kids could hear the song without being taught about the horrors of war which defeats the purpose for which the original song was written [as a memorial to the fallen in remembrance])
Amazing! Is the US Civil War Song "When Johnny is marching home" admittedly based on that music?
Is.... beautiful the voice and music is so amazing I give 10 note I like the part of "with your drums and gun and guns and drums" amazing
R/ihadastroke?
2:42 That's the island of Ceylon.
うつくしい✨💎
力強い🌳🌏
悲しい😢
この歌は素晴らしい。。。
Nani?
The ants go marching one by one
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Such pain suffered while inflicting pain on an innocent other. All by the command of the British 'masters'
The ones who maimed Johnny or the ones Johnny killed in Ceylon had no quarrel with him.
Sad story.
I'm Finnish and have absolutely 0% connection to Ireland yet i love irish music and culture! This is an incredible song.
We love Finland too.. you're a nation of warriors
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It's an English song written in 1867 for the music hall.
@@YorkyOne It was written by someone with Irish parents born in England and it was about an Irish man coming home from war.. it's very much an Irish song
@@Liam-lv1fx
But written as a parody not a political statement.
And Joseph P Geoghegan was born in what is now Salford to an Irish father and an English mother.
Where is my sight, where is my soul, where is James Hetfield at all, which basketcase song is the best, hurroo, hurroo.
Irish version of "The Ants go Marching Two-by-Two"