To this day, the Vietnamese government allows only one foreign war memorial on Vietnamese soil. The Australian memorial at Long Tan. A battle where 108 Australians and 6 Kiwi artillery guns defeated 2,500 NVA...
John was with the Australian Folk Music Band Redgum when he wrote the song. The featured performance used the Australian Army Band which is somewhat a testament to how deeply this song has been adopted across Australia. The song always deeply moves me as I lost a brother-in-law to Agent Orange. As I now put it, he was killed in Viet Nam but it took him 15 more years to die. That man taught me to laugh through pain. RIP Larry
There are not many songs that are structured so well, and have unforgettable lyrics that give such a powerful description from a soldiers point of view. This song will remain a timeless reminder how we let these fine people down. My youngest is in their early 20’s, and his great Grandfather was already at war even before he reached the right age (he changed his name and age to sign up). I am saddened to say that I have lost many relatives in WWI and WWII. I have a few dear friends who went to Vietnam. Vietnam was the first conflict where conscription became the method of selection. Lest we forget.
Just drove past Puckapunyal Army base yesterday. Out of Melbourne. Thanks for your reaction to this very special song and for playing the talk beforehand 💕👏
John Schumann's 'Glass on the Bar' is a great song Another great artist and songwriter is Michael Waugh and his fantastic song 'Big Things' I'd recommend the live version on 'Michael Waugh Latrobe Performing Arts performance 2020' starting at the 16min 48 sec mark , although any version would be great. A couple of references that might need clarification. Rocketship - was climbing bars in the shape of a rocketship that was about 5 metres high, concreted into the ground and bloody dangerous. But any park in Oz built in in the 1960s to 70s seemed to have one. Big Things - Are large over size items set up as tourist stops for people traveling around. Some you could climb in or just part of a town or a stop. E.g. Big Pineapple, Big Banana, Big Gumboots, Big Bogan - there is about 230 scattered around the place and none are particularly impressive. SES (overalls) - State Emergency Service is a volunteer group in pretty much every town and council area in Australia that people help out the fulltime emergency service in times of need. e.g. flood, storms, lost bush walkers, etc I think you'll love the sentiment of a small town in this song.
Thanks Saeed for a respectful and understanding reaction. We could write a book on this. But if I may go in a little different direction. Every cent of the Artist Royalties went to the Vietnam Veterans Association (Now to their descendants I believe) Tha Australian War Memorial now hosts and interactive A/V display of this along with the written lyrics, their gold record and more recently John's guitar. He performed this with the late Hugh MacDonald in the Hall of Remembrance on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan ( a different battle). It brought tears to the eyes of the Memorials director (,who was the prime mover in not "glossing over" truth?) as well as the hundred odd surviving vets. Thanks for hearing me.
My husband’s number was picked and he was 19 but he couldn’t go because he was in a car accident breaking his shoulder. I asked him if he felt lucky but he said.. No.. as he wanted to fight with his mates. Hearing this song made me realise how lucky he was and l get to have a husband without the emotional trauma these soldiers had.
The song is subtitled "a walk in the light green". "It's a song about two mates of mine who went to Vietnam, came back Agent Orange victims. The title "A Walk in the Light Green" stems from the fact that when the Australian soldiers in Vietnam were given their missions, they looked at the areas where they'd be working in on the map and if it was dark green on the map, then there was cause for some consolation, because dark green meant thick jungle, lots of cover, and there were no mines. If they were working in areas that were light green on the map, that meant light jungle, not much cover, and heaps of mines. This is a song for Mick and Frankie. It's called "A walk in the light green". John Schumann (Redgum). A direct quote from a live version of this song I have.
Hearing this song is as visceral now as the first time I heard it in 1983 and every time since. The tears and grief are for the thousands of boys sent by their government to fight a war they knew nothing about and that frankly had nothing to do with us - the product of "Reds under the beds" paranoia and the tinpot "Domino" theory. They returned home to be treated as pariahs despite having had no choice. The part that I Was Only 19 played in righting this wrong cannot be overstated.
Absolutely. The names, spittle all round hostility was appalling. Finally thanks to John ( not so much " we hate it and aren't going to record it" Redgum, they got their welcome home march and more.
Eric Bogle wrote two great anti-war songs, "The band played waltzing Matilda" & "No Man's Land" (covered as "The green fields of France" by the Pooges and others) The first is about the Gallipoli Campaign
@@stevegraham3817 Or to be more precise. 6 RAR arrived in Vietnam on the 8th May 1969, the incident the song references occurred on the 21st July 1969 just over two months later. Therefore they had nearly 10 months of their tour to go, not extended. June was simply poetic licence to rhyme with moon.
@@stevegraham3817 Yes, "Frankie" was 6 RAR and a real person Francis Hunt, a regular hence the "I was only 19", being 19 when he went to Vietnam. He was also severely wounded in the incident. Best not to perpetuate fallacies and come up with some irrelevant excuse for your lack of knowledge.
There is a hip hop group in Australia called the herd that covered this song on a youth radio channel, it's on RUclips helped connect kids with the past. Should check it out and see what you think.😊
This is absolutely great. Was also diagnosed with PTSD after serving 20years in the Police Service. What makes me so so angry, why if someone suffers from PTSD, anxiety, depression ect you have a mental illness. But if you have pneumonia or a heart disease you suffer from that. To me it is stereotyping. It is a illness that you can live with, with medication on a regular basis just as people with cholesterol, high blood pressure and like me epilepsy. You can suffer from the worst and deadliest illnesses but O not a mental illness. It "tags" you differently. Sorry for the ranting. Tx Saeed for this channel. Appreciate you. Greetings from South Africa
The backing band was compromised of serving Australian military. You need to react to 'The band played Waltzing Matilda'. Then you will begin to understand the very big heart of the Australian nation.
I grew up in New Zealand and I have 3 brothers. I remember my mother listening to the radio for the birthdays of those to be conscripted. None of my brothers had to go thankfully.
@@2eREPPARA My dad was in Korea and my uncle was in Vietnam and some mates were in Iraq. I have seen side effects from running towards the gun. The least I can do is say thank you. You have a great day
I turned 19 eleven months into my military service. Every male knew he would be doing National service as soon as he turned 18. 5 months later you are deployed to a company for COIN operations.
Not that often indeed. Very moving indeed. Thanks for introducing me to it. I guess it is now morning where you are? Goodmorning and have a great day. I am watching an episode of Supernatural and going to sleep 😄
@SaeedReacts. If you remember Urthboy from the "roll up your sleeves" like a version you reacted to? Well he is in a band called The Herd. They did a rap version of this for like a version many years ago. It's actually the first time I heard this song. They ended up recording it with John Schumann . It's worth a listen. ruclips.net/video/ns82tHhJOr0/видео.htmlsi=bol4qWy0PxxCAxjn
I was lucky as. A change of government pulled Australia out just months before I turned 18. Otherwise I would have been facing the dreaded lottery - a ballot of dates where if your birthday came up you were drafted. The line "God help me, he was goin' home in June" doesn't make sense when you note that the moon landing was in July. Schumann has said that he used June because it rhymed, but I reckon it still works because lots of troops had their tour extended arbitrarily. I can't help but think of the ones that got wounded or worse when they should have been back home. Thanks for a heartfelt reaction. It still affects me every time after all these years. IMO, this is one of the great anti-war songs, along with Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
Wow, that is lucky indeed. Cant imagine having a big birthday coming up that also comes with massive anxiety. Thanks for sharing that and for some background on the song and writing. Much appreciated.
I prefer this version, it is a little less polished and a little less melodic, which adds to the subdued feelings. ruclips.net/video/mGDhzVi1bqU/видео.html When this song came out the Australian Public finally understood what these Veterans had been through. The Defence Forces take extraordinary people, turn them into extraordinary fighters, but don't return them to the pre-damaged state when the war has finished. When Vietnam War had finished there was no ticker tape parade, they were spat on by protestors at the docks as they climbed off the ships, just like the US Soldiers were. This song changed every Aussies attitude towards the Vietnam Vets and the sacrifices the armed forces make in general for the freedoms we think are just a given. We made amends for how they were treated when they hopped off the ships and planes 10 years earlier with a Welcome Home Parade in 1987. Many Veterans quality of life was improved from then on, and many government services were improved, which was about time. We (as a country) train ordinary people to be Extraordinary Soldiers, but we don't de-train them how to join society again. Here is the Wiki page that explains some of the slang and colloquialisms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_Only_19 Excerpt from Wiki. The song was released in July 1983, went to number one, and four years later 25,000 Vietnam veterans marched through the streets of Sydney in a belated welcome home parade. For the hundreds of thousands of Australians who bought the record, Schumann suspects it was a way of saying sorry. “I think I was only 19 provides an ‘I get it’ moment,” Schumann said. “Australians are fundamentally fair and decent, and I think I was only 19 was a story … that made us stop and think, ‘Oh, shit, we didn’t do the right thing by those blokes.’ It gave us all a chance to look over the fence, and look into the backyards of the Vietnam veterans who lived next door or down the street. “I think we’ve learned to separate our position on the war and our position on the men and women who are sent to fight it. And I think that’s a very important distinction.” The actual lyrics: Mum and dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean And there's me in me slouch hat with me SLR and greens God help me I was only nineteen From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat I'd been in and out of choppers now for months And we made our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M.16? And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means? God help me I was only nineteen A four week operation, when each step can mean your last one on two legs It was a war within yourself But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off So you closed your eyes and thought about somethin' else And then someone yelled out contact, and the bloke behind me swore We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon God help me He was goin' home in June And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel On a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Vung Tau And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle 'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel God help me I was only nineteen And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet? And what's this rash that comes and goes Can you tell me what it means? God help me I was only nineteen
If you haven't seen it, on the topic of war, I can't recommend the video "The Fallen of World War II" over on Neil Halloran's youtube channel. It's the best way I've seen the scale and human impact of WW2 ever depicted.
What's going on this does not sound like the one played on radio .the sound not right . What's that a bloody bango. It sound terrible .play the original version .without banjo & piano.
To this day, the Vietnamese government allows only one foreign war memorial on Vietnamese soil. The Australian memorial at Long Tan. A battle where 108 Australians and 6 Kiwi artillery guns defeated 2,500 NVA...
I did not know about this. Thanks for taking the time to inform me about that. Always great to learn about history.
@@SaeedReacts. There's a video about the Battle of Long Tan by Martin Walsh on RUclips. Would love to see your reaction.
This song always gets to me every time i hear it. Lest we forget 🇦🇺
John was with the Australian Folk Music Band Redgum when he wrote the song. The featured performance used the Australian Army Band which is somewhat a testament to how deeply this song has been adopted across Australia.
The song always deeply moves me as I lost a brother-in-law to Agent Orange. As I now put it, he was killed in Viet Nam but it took him 15 more years to die. That man taught me to laugh through pain. RIP Larry
I'll raise my glass for Larry tonight!
There are not many songs that are structured so well, and have unforgettable lyrics that give such a powerful description from a soldiers point of view. This song will remain a timeless reminder how we let these fine people down. My youngest is in their early 20’s, and his great Grandfather was already at war even before he reached the right age (he changed his name and age to sign up). I am saddened to say that I have lost many relatives in WWI and WWII. I have a few dear friends who went to Vietnam. Vietnam was the first conflict where conscription became the method of selection. Lest we forget.
Just drove past Puckapunyal Army base yesterday. Out of Melbourne. Thanks for your reaction to this very special song and for playing the talk beforehand 💕👏
John Schumann's 'Glass on the Bar' is a great song
Another great artist and songwriter is Michael Waugh and his fantastic song 'Big Things'
I'd recommend the live version on 'Michael Waugh Latrobe Performing Arts performance 2020' starting at the 16min 48 sec mark , although any version would be great.
A couple of references that might need clarification.
Rocketship - was climbing bars in the shape of a rocketship that was about 5 metres high, concreted into the ground and bloody dangerous. But any park in Oz built in in the 1960s to 70s seemed to have one.
Big Things - Are large over size items set up as tourist stops for people traveling around. Some you could climb in or just part of a town or a stop. E.g. Big Pineapple, Big Banana, Big Gumboots, Big Bogan - there is about 230 scattered around the place and none are particularly impressive.
SES (overalls) - State Emergency Service is a volunteer group in pretty much every town and council area in Australia that people help out the fulltime emergency service in times of need. e.g. flood, storms, lost bush walkers, etc
I think you'll love the sentiment of a small town in this song.
Thanks Saeed for a respectful and understanding reaction. We could write a book on this. But if I may go in a little different direction. Every cent of the Artist Royalties went to the Vietnam Veterans Association
(Now to their descendants I believe)
Tha Australian War Memorial now hosts and interactive A/V display of this along with the written lyrics, their gold record and more recently John's guitar. He performed this with the late Hugh MacDonald in the Hall of Remembrance on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan ( a different battle). It brought tears to the eyes of the Memorials director (,who was the prime mover in not "glossing over" truth?) as well as the hundred odd surviving vets.
Thanks for hearing me.
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this!
My husband’s number was picked and he was 19 but he couldn’t go because he was in a car accident breaking his shoulder. I asked him if he felt lucky but he said.. No.. as he wanted to fight with his mates. Hearing this song made me realise how lucky he was and l get to have a husband without the emotional trauma these soldiers had.
This song always moves me to tears.
Grew up with this song for 45 years. Born way out west in queensland and all the rest. Can never make it through this song without tearing up bad.
The song is subtitled "a walk in the light green". "It's a song about two mates of mine who went to Vietnam, came back Agent Orange victims. The title "A Walk in the Light Green" stems from the fact that when the Australian soldiers in Vietnam were given their missions, they looked at the areas where they'd be working in on the map and if it was dark green on the map, then there was cause for some consolation, because dark green meant thick jungle, lots of cover, and there were no mines. If they were working in areas that were light green on the map, that meant light jungle, not much cover, and heaps of mines. This is a song for Mick and Frankie. It's called "A walk in the light green". John Schumann (Redgum). A direct quote from a live version of this song I have.
Hearing this song is as visceral now as the first time I heard it in 1983 and every time since. The tears and grief are for the thousands of boys sent by their government to fight a war they knew nothing about and that frankly had nothing to do with us - the product of "Reds under the beds" paranoia and the tinpot "Domino" theory. They returned home to be treated as pariahs despite having had no choice.
The part that I Was Only 19 played in righting this wrong cannot be overstated.
And beyexperimented on by their “ally’s” with Agent Orange on top of the other misery’s of war@@jenniferanderson1499
Absolutely. The names, spittle all round hostility was appalling.
Finally thanks to John ( not so much " we hate it and aren't going to record it" Redgum, they got their welcome home march and more.
Thank you for your reaction to this song. Still brings tears to my eyes. So sad but true. Luv from Australia ❤️🎼❤️🎼❤️
Eric Bogle wrote two great anti-war songs, "The band played waltzing Matilda" & "No Man's Land" (covered as "The green fields of France" by the Pooges and others) The first is about the Gallipoli Campaign
I"m in tears.
This song always gets me 😢
"Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon" always gets me 😞😞
That line stuck out to me as well
@@SaeedReacts. year 29 july but he was going home in june
@@kranknsports3829 Or he was supposed to go home in June and had his tour extended, or was it just poetic licence.?.
@@stevegraham3817 Or to be more precise.
6 RAR arrived in Vietnam on the 8th May 1969, the incident the song references occurred on the 21st July 1969 just over two months later. Therefore they had nearly 10 months of their tour to go, not extended. June was simply poetic licence to rhyme with moon.
@@stevegraham3817 Yes, "Frankie" was 6 RAR and a real person Francis Hunt, a regular hence the "I was only 19", being 19 when he went to Vietnam. He was also severely wounded in the incident.
Best not to perpetuate fallacies and come up with some irrelevant excuse for your lack of knowledge.
I love this channel because I get to experience some great music that I was not familiar with. Meaningful!
Thanks so much for checking this out with me!
There is a hip hop group in Australia called the herd that covered this song on a youth radio channel, it's on RUclips helped connect kids with the past. Should check it out and see what you think.😊
Another great song is The band plays Waltzing Matilda.
Nice one Bob! Excellent recommendation!
This is absolutely great. Was also diagnosed with PTSD after serving 20years in the Police Service.
What makes me so so angry, why if someone suffers from PTSD, anxiety, depression ect you have a mental illness. But if you have pneumonia or a heart disease you suffer from that. To me it is stereotyping. It is a illness that you can live with, with medication on a regular basis just as people with cholesterol, high blood pressure and like me epilepsy. You can suffer from the worst and deadliest illnesses but O not a mental illness. It "tags" you differently. Sorry for the ranting. Tx Saeed for this channel. Appreciate you. Greetings from South Africa
Also by Eric Bogle "No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France)"
Channel 7 news chopper after Veitnam was an old huey they refurbished as a news chopper. Crazy line to me.
The backing band was compromised of serving Australian military. You need to react to 'The band played Waltzing Matilda'. Then you will begin to understand the very big heart of the Australian nation.
I grew up in New Zealand and I have 3 brothers. I remember my mother listening to the radio for the birthdays of those to be conscripted. None of my brothers had to go thankfully.
Aussie combat vet
And when I get to heavens gates to St Peter l’ll say “Legionnaire reporting in l’ve done my time in hell”🇦🇺🇺🇸
Thank you
@@bob2shred894
Aussie combat vet
Please don’t thank me just being silly enough to run towards the gunfire doesn’t make me anything special
@@2eREPPARA My dad was in Korea and my uncle was in Vietnam and some mates were in Iraq. I have seen side effects from running towards the gun. The least I can do is say thank you. You have a great day
I turned 19 eleven months into my military service.
Every male knew he would be doing National service as soon as he turned 18.
5 months later you are deployed to a company for COIN operations.
Not often does the pause button get a break. Lol this is a moving one for sure
Not that often indeed. Very moving indeed. Thanks for introducing me to it.
I guess it is now morning where you are? Goodmorning and have a great day.
I am watching an episode of Supernatural and going to sleep 😄
@SaeedReacts. just having coffee and making the family lunches for today , then off to work. You have a good day
@SaeedReacts. If you remember Urthboy from the "roll up your sleeves" like a version you reacted to? Well he is in a band called The Herd. They did a rap version of this for like a version many years ago. It's actually the first time I heard this song. They ended up recording it with John Schumann . It's worth a listen.
ruclips.net/video/ns82tHhJOr0/видео.htmlsi=bol4qWy0PxxCAxjn
I was lucky as. A change of government pulled Australia out just months before I turned 18. Otherwise I would have been facing the dreaded lottery - a ballot of dates where if your birthday came up you were drafted.
The line "God help me, he was goin' home in June" doesn't make sense when you note that the moon landing was in July. Schumann has said that he used June because it rhymed, but I reckon it still works because lots of troops had their tour extended arbitrarily. I can't help but think of the ones that got wounded or worse when they should have been back home.
Thanks for a heartfelt reaction. It still affects me every time after all these years. IMO, this is one of the great anti-war songs, along with Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
Wow, that is lucky indeed. Cant imagine having a big birthday coming up that also comes with massive anxiety.
Thanks for sharing that and for some background on the song and writing. Much appreciated.
So glad that when my brother's number came up he was rejected due to having asthma.
You need to see Billy Joel's song Goodnight Saigon, it does a good job explaining the Vietnam war from a soldier's point of view
I reacted to it. Great song and video.
check out the sogs of Fred Smith - aussie diplomat in Afghanistan - very powerful
I prefer this version, it is a little less polished and a little less melodic, which adds to the subdued feelings.
ruclips.net/video/mGDhzVi1bqU/видео.html
When this song came out the Australian Public finally understood what these Veterans had been through.
The Defence Forces take extraordinary people, turn them into extraordinary fighters, but don't return them to the pre-damaged state when the war has finished. When Vietnam War had finished there was no ticker tape parade, they were spat on by protestors at the docks as they climbed off the ships, just like the US Soldiers were.
This song changed every Aussies attitude towards the Vietnam Vets and the sacrifices the armed forces make in general for the freedoms we think are just a given.
We made amends for how they were treated when they hopped off the ships and planes 10 years earlier with a Welcome Home Parade in 1987. Many Veterans quality of life was improved from then on, and many government services were improved, which was about time.
We (as a country) train ordinary people to be Extraordinary Soldiers, but we don't de-train them how to join society again.
Here is the Wiki page that explains some of the slang and colloquialisms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_Only_19
Excerpt from Wiki.
The song was released in July 1983, went to number one, and four years later 25,000 Vietnam veterans marched through the streets of Sydney in a belated welcome home parade.
For the hundreds of thousands of Australians who bought the record, Schumann suspects it was a way of saying sorry. “I think I was only 19 provides an ‘I get it’ moment,” Schumann said. “Australians are fundamentally fair and decent, and I think I was only 19 was a story … that made us stop and think, ‘Oh, shit, we didn’t do the right thing by those blokes.’
It gave us all a chance to look over the fence, and look into the backyards of the Vietnam veterans who lived next door or down the street.
“I think we’ve learned to separate our position on the war and our position on the men and women who are sent to fight it. And I think that’s a very important distinction.”
The actual lyrics:
Mum and dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal
It was a long march from cadets
The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left
And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean
And there's me in me slouch hat with me SLR and greens
God help me
I was only nineteen
From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat
I'd been in and out of choppers now for months
And we made our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me
I was only nineteen
A four week operation, when each step can mean your last one on two legs
It was a war within yourself
But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and thought about somethin' else
And then someone yelled out contact, and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar
And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me
He was goin' home in June
And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row
And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
God help me
I was only nineteen
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
And what's this rash that comes and goes
Can you tell me what it means?
God help me
I was only nineteen
If you haven't seen it, on the topic of war, I can't recommend the video "The Fallen of World War II" over on Neil Halloran's youtube channel. It's the best way I've seen the scale and human impact of WW2 ever depicted.
I have not yet. Will look it up.
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There is CC closed captions on this, glad you didn't use.
The AI butchers it.
😢
Wrong version ..
This was a request from a subscriber. So what is wrong for one is right for the other and vice versa i would imagine 😃
@SaeedReacts. yeah the original is the only version imo ..it's got a B/W clip with it
@@ACDZ123 I definitely understand. Must check it out.
ruclips.net/video/cnFzCmAyOp8/видео.htmlsi=jSnmxLOIFmuSjZuu
G'day bud I believe ul enjoy this 1 aswell
What's going on this does not sound like the one played on radio .the sound not right . What's that a bloody bango. It sound terrible .play the original version .without banjo & piano.
Rubbish... this is every bit as poignant as the original especially with John's preamble added..