@@m007mm It was adopted by the Marines as a sign of respect for the Boer forces from way back when. Its a good thing - I can tell you it is hardly utilised and played by the modern SANDF today.
My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart Maar'k hoop om haar weer te sien Sy het in die wyk van die Mooirivier gewoon Nog voor die oorlog het begin O bring my t'rug na die ou Transvaal Daar waar my Sarie woon Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom Daar woon my Sarie Marais O bring my t'rug na die ou Transvaal Daar waar my Sarie woon Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom Daar woon my Sarie Marais Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom Daar woon my Sarie Marais
it's our song! The song sung by us Boers and our ancestors. It's our history and nobody else's. I hope they mentioned this when they sung this - otherwise it's a bit low of them
@@nuckingfuts3204 For your information - my mother is a Boer and only ONE lineage of my father was Italian ( great great grandfather - the rest Boers). A name doesn't necessarily tell you what you are. If you saw my face you'd never say I'm Italian. So why the name?
@@PatrickVianello-o A name tells you exactly who you are. Firstly, Boer and Afrikaner are not the same. If your ancestors didn't live in the Boer Republics, but in the Cape Colony, like the ancestors of most Afrikaners today, then your ancestors weren't Boer but Cape Dutch. If you don't believe in the difference look into Kruger's problems with the Cape Dutch, the same people who adopted Afrikaans much later and fought mainly with the English against the Boer. Secondly, no such thing as a "half Italian Boer", just as there isn't a "half black Boer", your father may have been European, but the way European cultures, just like the Boer one, works, is that patrilineal, this means the woman enters the tribe of the man she marries. You're not a Boer, you're an Italian. One lineage of your father was Italian, and yet it was clearly the patrilineal lineage since you still carry his name. You're not a Boer, you're an Italian.
@@nuckingfuts3204 and screw you - my great grandmother died in the Springfontein concentration camp in the Orange Free State and here you come telling me I have no connection to these people. The BLOOD OF MY ANCESTORS LIES IN THIS LAND AND ALWAYS WILL!
🤣🤣🤣 We Brits have been nicking music off our enemies for years, one of the Yorkshire Regiment’s Quik Marches is “Ca Ira”, a French Revolutionary song played by the the band during a rearguard action at the command of the Battalion CO to trick the sleeping French into thinking they were French Troops. They then defeated the French “to the sound of their damn tune..”. On their return to England, Landing in Dover they marched to Ca Ira, and the townspeople threw stones because they thought the regiment was rebelling! Ca Ira is the only musical battle honour in the British Army. Sarais Marie was adopted as the quick March of the Commandos to honour the Boer Commandos who fought so bravely and well against the British, so impressed were the British by the Boers that the name “Commando” was adopted from the Boer fighting units for the special raiding units. It is a way for us Brits to honour enemies we have huge respect for.
My father served with RAF Coastal Command, and spent some time in North Africa. He picked up a parody of this fine song, from soldiers serving there, and would sing it to himself when tackling a particularly tricky DIY job. I wish I could get hold of the complete piece, but all I can remember is the final line-#"There's forty thousand Springbok's on the old Transvaal, and none of them in Mersa Matruh"#
Magnificent. I used play in HS marching band then with adult community concert band for about 30 years or so. Still tinkering with my old. Besson Imperial euphonium.
I may be wrong but I do believe that some 9 years later that Scots Officer is now the King's Equerry (and was Her Late Majesty's Equerry before) - Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Thompson.
Marais is of French origin. Many of our Afrikaners who have historic French names (that altered slightly over the centuries of being here in SA) Du Toit, Marais, De Villiers and more have French ancestry way back. But we talking the early 17 hundreds. None of them understand a word of French anymore and have become Afrikaners and most are intermingled with those of Dutch and German origin. The surname just implies the fathers lineage. But more often than not there will be Dutch/German/other and even some English blood in them. I am an example (even myself having one line of Italian).
We got those French surnames from the French Huganots. But they assimilated with the Dutch in the Cape Colony and so there is no real French identity left in South Africa.
The French here didn't stay French long maybe 3 generation at best There's also a large German influence that can be detected from the common afrikaaner family names Kruger/Krüger, Lourens, Vogel, Wagner, Fick, Opperman, Becker/Bekker, Schultz/Schöltz/Scholtz, Müller/Muller/Möller, Engelbrecht, Badenhorst
God bless the Afrikaner. ANC government is trying to erase us and our history but we will fight till our last breath. Our ancestors did not die in vain for this country.
A spirited rendering as ever - somehow the cymbals don't come through very strongly at the key flourishes- maybe just a lot of other sound gets in the way with this big parade? Normally the cymbals round off a passage very crisply.
I was interested to see one of the formations of Royal Marines marching past commanded by an officer in highland dress? A good look, but why and how I wonder?
Ironic 😂 for the British to play a song that was sung by the boere (to help up lift their spirits and motivate them) during the 2nd boer war against the British.
That’s it’s exactly why it was adopted, to honour an enemy we had great respect for, the Boer War led the British to completely change the training and equipment of the British Soldier, and led to changes in social policy for the poorest in society. We have a lot to thank the Boers for…
@@katerinakemp5701 Good shout as I also wondered about him. I am former RM Bandsman and served in Arbroath when it was still HMS Condor, the Royal Navy Air Station - lovely place and love the jocks; hope they never leave us!!
@@ggpp4898 We don't but, my, what a pedant you are; probably one of those 'types' who get offended where none is meant. I can't speak for C Baird but, I imagine, if like me, he used the description Highlander as a respectful term for a Scotsman in a kilt. As your icon is the Saltire you're obviously a Jock, so perhaps you can recognise the tartan and enlighten us heathens as to where he is actually from, and also his regiment. Jeez.
@@ggpp4898 I would say that the kilt and bonnet were a bit of a giveaway to those of a pedantic nature he is an officer of the Royal Regiment of Scotland! PS I too am a Scot
This Afrikaner is proud to hear our lovely song again.
Ek is nie 'n Afrikaner nie maar ek is ook trots .
Having lived in Cape Town as a kid I can appreciate your comments
Afrikaner version is a direct copy of Ellie Rhee, a song of the US civil war. Tune is the same, words are a translation
Doesn't it feel strange that it's being played by the invaders?
@@m007mm It was adopted by the Marines as a sign of respect for the Boer forces from way back when.
Its a good thing - I can tell you it is hardly utilised and played by the modern SANDF today.
My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart
Maar'k hoop om haar weer te sien
Sy het in die wyk van die Mooirivier gewoon
Nog voor die oorlog het begin
O bring my t'rug na die ou Transvaal
Daar waar my Sarie woon
Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom
Daar woon my Sarie Marais
O bring my t'rug na die ou Transvaal
Daar waar my Sarie woon
Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom
Daar woon my Sarie Marais
Daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom
Daar woon my Sarie Marais
Lekker man!
Ek was so bang
Dat die khakis my sou vang
En ver oor die see wegstuur..
Love the fact they have Scots officer leading a platoon. Units have close links and often send officers and soldiers on exchange to one another.
My Sarie Marais, a South African folk song. Wow.
ONLY the BRITS can march like this...and their bands are amazing....OH...SARIE MARAIS...I am from South Africa...and from "THE TRANSVAAL" too
Yeah, stuff Mpumalanga or whatever the fuck the Transvaal is called now in Kleptocrica.
Sarie Marais was sung by Springboks during WW1 & WW11 and sung by Transvaal Boers during the BoerWar
it's our song! The song sung by us Boers and our ancestors. It's our history and nobody else's. I hope they mentioned this when they sung this - otherwise it's a bit low of them
@@PatrickVianello-o Vianello isn't a Boer name.
@@nuckingfuts3204 For your information - my mother is a Boer and only ONE lineage of my father was Italian ( great great grandfather - the rest Boers). A name doesn't necessarily tell you what you are. If you saw my face you'd never say I'm Italian. So why the name?
@@PatrickVianello-o A name tells you exactly who you are. Firstly, Boer and Afrikaner are not the same. If your ancestors didn't live in the Boer Republics, but in the Cape Colony, like the ancestors of most Afrikaners today, then your ancestors weren't Boer but Cape Dutch. If you don't believe in the difference look into Kruger's problems with the Cape Dutch, the same people who adopted Afrikaans much later and fought mainly with the English against the Boer.
Secondly, no such thing as a "half Italian Boer", just as there isn't a "half black Boer", your father may have been European, but the way European cultures, just like the Boer one, works, is that patrilineal, this means the woman enters the tribe of the man she marries. You're not a Boer, you're an Italian.
One lineage of your father was Italian, and yet it was clearly the patrilineal lineage since you still carry his name. You're not a Boer, you're an Italian.
@@nuckingfuts3204 and screw you - my great grandmother died in the Springfontein concentration camp in the Orange Free State and here you come telling me I have no connection to these people. The BLOOD OF MY ANCESTORS LIES IN THIS LAND AND ALWAYS WILL!
I have been known to sing this round the campfire. I can honestly say hearing this brought me to tears.
I can't stop watching this. Sarie Marais is a folk song here.
Haven't heard that song in a long long time and played by the band of the Royal Marines at that
Oh come on. Annex our country if you'd Ike, but don't colonise our music!
Hehe. Love it.
🤣🤣🤣 We Brits have been nicking music off our enemies for years, one of the Yorkshire Regiment’s Quik Marches is “Ca Ira”, a French Revolutionary song played by the the band during a rearguard action at the command of the Battalion CO to trick the sleeping French into thinking they were French Troops. They then defeated the French “to the sound of their damn tune..”. On their return to England, Landing in Dover they marched to Ca Ira, and the townspeople threw stones because they thought the regiment was rebelling! Ca Ira is the only musical battle honour in the British Army.
Sarais Marie was adopted as the quick March of the Commandos to honour the Boer Commandos who fought so bravely and well against the British, so impressed were the British by the Boers that the name “Commando” was adopted from the Boer fighting units for the special raiding units. It is a way for us Brits to honour enemies we have huge respect for.
A fantastic parade, which I had the pleasure of attending with my father, a retired Royal Marine.
My late dad, who was 24 years in the Royal Navy used to sing this.
Did he sing it in English?
@@detdet3871 yes and also in AFRIKAANS! I hope the auto-translate doesn't muck it up this time.
Makes me sad and proud at the same time
Enjoyed this post when first aired still enjoying it today in 2022👍🥰👍
That brings back so many memories
My father served with RAF Coastal Command, and spent some time in North Africa. He picked up a parody of this fine song, from soldiers serving there, and would sing it to himself when tackling a particularly tricky DIY job. I wish I could get hold of the complete piece, but all I can remember is the final line-#"There's forty thousand Springbok's on the old Transvaal, and none of them in Mersa Matruh"#
Magnificent. I used play in HS marching band then with adult community concert band for about 30 years or so.
Still tinkering with my old. Besson Imperial euphonium.
I may be wrong but I do believe that some 9 years later that Scots Officer is now the King's Equerry (and was Her Late Majesty's Equerry before) - Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Thompson.
Je suis un grand fan de tout ces groupes militaires musicaux du monde entier
Well done the Royal Marines Band. 👍👍👍
Love the band and the HM royal marines!
Mi piace : è fantastica e allegra e solenne
Potete avviare
Saris Marais is the March Past music of the British Royal Marines!
No doubt Sarie Marais was of Hugenote origin (Frech Protestant) because it is not really a Dutch name.
Marais is of French origin. Many of our Afrikaners who have historic French names (that altered slightly over the centuries of being here in SA) Du Toit, Marais, De Villiers and more have French ancestry way back. But we talking the early 17 hundreds. None of them understand a word of French anymore and have become Afrikaners and most are intermingled with those of Dutch and German origin. The surname just implies the fathers lineage. But more often than not there will be Dutch/German/other and even some English blood in them. I am an example (even myself having one line of Italian).
We got those French surnames from the French Huganots. But they assimilated with the Dutch in the Cape Colony and so there is no real French identity left in South Africa.
The French here didn't stay French long maybe 3 generation at best
There's also a large German influence that can be detected from the common afrikaaner family names
Kruger/Krüger, Lourens, Vogel, Wagner, Fick, Opperman, Becker/Bekker, Schultz/Schöltz/Scholtz, Müller/Muller/Möller, Engelbrecht, Badenhorst
Absolutely beautiful
God bless the Afrikaner. ANC government is trying to erase us and our history but we will fight till our last breath. Our ancestors did not die in vain for this country.
Brilliant ♥️ Mooi om te hoor
A spirited rendering as ever - somehow the cymbals don't come through very strongly at the key flourishes- maybe just a lot of other sound gets in the way with this big parade? Normally the cymbals round off a passage very crisply.
Uhm....
With regards to the description. Toonsetting _is not a person._ Toonsetting is the word for setting music to words.
I was interested to see one of the formations of Royal Marines marching past commanded by an officer in highland dress? A good look, but why and how I wonder?
Better drill than any Trooping the Colour from the past 20 years
GOOSE BUMPS .. As ,,SOUTH AFRICAN CAN BE
it's quite ironic that the british decided to put the song while having a "history" with the afrikkaners
They murdered 26 000 women and children in the concentration camps
This takes me back "to the old Transvaal", I love it!
Sarie Marais = 🔥
👍❤️🙏wow beautiful
Fantastic very nice looking beautiful royal family listen Muzik good filing positive 😍❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome
True respect from the Brits to our Boer comrades.
After you killed 25 % of their women and children in concentration camps?
Ironic 😂 for the British to play a song that was sung by the boere (to help up lift their spirits and motivate them) during the 2nd boer war against the British.
That’s it’s exactly why it was adopted, to honour an enemy we had great respect for, the Boer War led the British to completely change the training and equipment of the British Soldier, and led to changes in social policy for the poorest in society. We have a lot to thank the Boers for…
Royal Marine version. There are a hundred thousand bastards in the old Transvaal and fug all in Tricomalee.
They’ll be putting them on the streets next. I’ve news for traitor Starmer, the squaddies will NEVER turn on their own people, NEVER.
100%
yes hey! - daaronderin die mielies... blah blah blah- .
my scottish teacher's favorite song ! - plus the haggis and stuff....
- if ye don belee' me , twas hay's nem : grayg the bruce !
Similar air to The Foggy Dew.
Why is it not like this now in the year 2023. The new how to do it correctly then. Not now
Never again.
🇿🇦🇬🇧
Boere Trots awesome
How do they dare.
Ek sing saam. Rosa Larsen
0:13 for personal reference
🙌🏿✝️🧎🏾
Why the Highlander??
He could be from Arbroath 40 unit or officer exchange.
@@katerinakemp5701 Good shout as I also wondered about him. I am former RM Bandsman and served in Arbroath when it was still HMS Condor, the Royal Navy Air Station - lovely place and love the jocks; hope they never leave us!!
How do you know he's a Highlander?
@@ggpp4898 We don't but, my, what a pedant you are; probably one of those 'types' who get offended where none is meant. I can't speak for C Baird but, I imagine, if like me, he used the description Highlander as a respectful term for a Scotsman in a kilt. As your icon is the Saltire you're obviously a Jock, so perhaps you can recognise the tartan and enlighten us heathens as to where he is actually from, and also his regiment. Jeez.
@@ggpp4898 I would say that the kilt and bonnet were a bit of a giveaway to those of a pedantic nature he is an officer of the Royal Regiment of Scotland! PS I too am a Scot