Johnny I hardly knew ye - Irish folk song
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2023
- 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye' is an Irish folk/anti-war song dating back to the mid-1860s. It has been mainly used as an anti-recruiting and anti-war song and this is undoubtedly one of the best versions of the song.
I think my childhood has been ruined. This is a great song, but there's nothing quite like hearing a song you remember from your childhood, but rather than the goofy lyrics, it's all about a guy who got his body parts blown off in a war.
This is the second verse.
No
It’s a anti war song for the Irish fighting for the east India trade company in the island of salloon now Sri Lanka
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f It's an anti war song that describes a guy that blown up. It's both.
Did you Never think about the words you were saying yes, but no one had to tell me wayfaring stranger was about war it’s just obvious A good like 30% of old songs are about war
@@josepigroyper370 Well the lyrics I heard to this tune as a kid had baby lyrics. It was absolutely an irritating song.
ten times more tragic with the widow singing
"I'm happy for to see you home," in a coffin
Good to see an upload like this including grim images at the end instead of others glorifying war with an anti-war song
Sound@@zetulives5345
Dog this song is a pro war song to boost moral for the IRA
dog, this song predates the ira by over 50 years, what are you on about?@@marielrodriguez2656
@@byeyaveanicetime6520 ok then it's to boost the irish Rebels
you got your dates wrog, it couldn't ossibly support the ira when they didn't exist, so how do you expect me to believe you after that massive mistake, especially since you can't even name said irish rebels you claim it was to support@@marielrodriguez2656
Wonderful rendition.🇦🇺♥️🇮🇪
I found who is singing its Eileen Donaghy but sadly it is not on spotify
check again bro, there it is
Zero dislikes. Nice.
People disliked it now... Why?
The British government@@boredumhaver2841
I know this is like a song from the Irish revolution, but why does it sound like a rip off of when Johnny comes marching home?
It is the same tune
the other way around i think. this came before johnny comes marching home
@@MegaVega2007 It was a popular British, Irish and American music hall song published in 1867 written by English song writer Joseph Geoghegan. The American Civil War had just ended in 1865. This version, "Johnny I hardly knew ye", had nothing to do with any Irish wars or anything like that. It has literally nothing to do with the Irish "revolution", the Ireland it is depicting was part of the UK, when the UK was constantly having minor colonial wars and lots of soldiers came from Ireland. The lyrics for "Johnny I hardly knew ye" were original and originally set to a different melody, but over time they have come to be set to the American melody written during the American Civil War now known as "When Johnny comes marching home", but the tune existed even before that song was published in the for of an recorded Union Army drinking song.
@@MegaVega2007Johnny I hardly knew ye came out a few years after when Johnny comes marching home
No this song is about the Irish sent to fight In the Sri Lanka civil war
Who is singing
it is a Eileen Donaghy
with drums and guns and guns and drums the enemy nearly slew ya me darling dear you look so queer why johnny I hardly knew ya
why the hell does it sound like dixie 💀
wait same song as americans??
I think the song came from the Irish immigrants who went to the US in during the famine but was modified
@@callum120official oohh i see
Pretty sure it’s Irish-America. It was written in New York by an Irish immigrant
In short, no one knows exactly when the tune was created, but the lyrics for "When Johnny comes marching home" were published, by Irish-American Patrick Gilmore in September 1863 who freely admits the tune isn't original and he heard someone humming it, we know this because the song "Johnny fill up your bowl" (an American Union Army drinking song) was published in July 1863. Later the lyrics for "Johnny I hardly knew ye", were written to a different tune in England by Joseph Geoghegan, but eventually came to be sung to the same American 1860's tune.
@@Alfred5555 damn thx for the info
Long live to Irish Republican Army!! Long live to Dixie land!!
This has nothing to do with the Ira
This also hardly has nothing to do with the Confederates, It’s about how Irish people don’t wanna fight for any sides.
I hate to tell you but the only pro-Confederate murals in Ireland are by Ulster Unionists lmao. Irish Republicans do have murals of Frederick Douglass if that fits your size
That's all false and neither you are right. It has everything to do with the IRA and has everything to do with the United States and the confederates
None of them do. In big horn you're wrong.
This is just Johnny marching home
The tune originated in Ireland I think it was brought over by Irish immigrants during the famine and they just put new lyrics on
The tune did not originate in Ireland it originated in north America in the United States.
@@firestriker3580
No it doesnt
The tune comes from germany all american military hims come from uk or germany