John McDermott - Christmas in the Trenches
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Another special excerpt in our ongoing celebration of 20 (!) years of 'A Time to Remember". The wonderful stage set-up and actors allowed for such a beautiful backdrop to the story that this song brings to light. The Christmas Truce of 1914 was a most rare and humanizing piece of WWI history and John sings it like no other.
'Christmas in the Trenches' written by John McCutcheon in 1984.
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John McDermott is a platinum selling Scottish-Canadian tenor who has been featured on CBC and PBS television networks. John has toured extensively throughout the world, releasing more than 40 albums over a successful 23+ year career.
I am so happy I found your channel Mr. McDermott. You and your voice a truly a treasure to watch and listen to. Thank you so much for sharing your artistry with us.
A sincere thank you to you.
This beautiful music accompanies one of John's saddest songs. It is difficult to keep back tears also if so much time has passed. Although we should never forget, I am afraid that we will forget again and again. I really do wish to be wrong !
Thank you for telling us the history behind this song. We must never forget!❣️
We had a German family in our neghiborhood. The sung " stille nach" to us one Christmas. It was nice.
I'm not crying 😭😭😭
I cannot listen this song without crying. The flower of Europen youth was wiped out for the sake of some multimillionaires who supplied weapons and uniforms.
1914 on Christmas Day
On the western front the guns all died away
And lying in the mud on bags of sand
We heard a German sing from no man's land
He had tenor voice so pure and true
The words were strange but every note we knew
Soaring or the living dead and dammed
The German sang of peace from no man's land
They left their trenches and we left ours
Beneath tin hats smiles bloomed like wild flowers
With photos, cigarettes, and pots of wine
We built a soldier's truce on the front line
Their singer was a lad of twenty one
We begged another song before the dawn
And sitting in the mud and blood and fear
He sang again the song all longed to hear
Silent night, no cannons roar
A King is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
In 19 and 14 in no man's land
And in the morning all the guns boomed in the rain
And we killed them and they killed us again
With Bullet, Bomb, Bayonet, Gas, and Flame,
And neither we nor they at all to blame.
There was heavy fighting right throughout the day,
for one nights peace we Bloodily did pay.
At night they charged we fought them hand to hand
And I killed the boy that sang in no man's land
Silent night no cannons roar
A King is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
And that young soldier sings
And the song of peace still rings
Though the captains and all the kings
Built no man's land
Sleep in heavenly peace
𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚖 🙈
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