It's not exclusive to England, though if you look at it with really squinted eyed, and I mean so squinted your eyes are practically closed, you could say I'm English.
It can be hard at first if you see it from a certain view. I mean Britons being forced to fight a land war with a million casualties just because some Austrian guy got shot. It wouldn’t surprise me if the old men in London that pushed for the war thought such a song might help in recruiting. 🤷🏻♂️
not really, it was used in a lot of advertisements during the war to keep morale among the men in regards to food. I'm not sure if satire is 100% the best fit.
It's actually from a prowar musical that wasn't successful and the song writers kept only this song deciding that it was the only aspect salvageable and they were correct as it was repurposed for the war
Lyrics: Up to your waist in water, Up to your eyes in slush, Using the kind of language That makes the sergeants blush Who wouldn't join the army? That's what we all enquire, Don't we pity the poor civilians Sitting around the fire Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay As soon as reveille has gone We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings our breakfast up to bed Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, What do you want with eggs and ham When you've got plum and apple jam? Form fours! Right turn! How shall we spend the money we earn? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay As soon as reveille has gone We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings our breakfast up to bed, what? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, What do you want with eggs and ham When you've got plum and apple jam? Form fours! Right turn! How shall we spend the money we earn? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war Come to the cook-house door, boys, Sniff at the lovely stew, Who is it says the colonel Gets better grub than you? Any complaints this morning? Do we complain? Not we What's the matter with lumps of onion Floating around your tea? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay As soon as reveille has gone We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings our breakfast up to bed Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, What do you want with eggs and ham When you've got plum and apple jam? Form fours! Right turn! How shall we spend the money we earn? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay As soon as reveille has gone We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings our breakfast up to bed Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war, What do you want with eggs and ham When you've got plum and apple jam? Form fours! Right turn! How shall we spend the money we earn? Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
I am sure that on two occasions in the song the 'Form fours, Right turn' is substituted with something else that sounds to me like 'Home fires ...... ' and I cannot make out the second half.
Many people think that during the war, the soldiers would sleep in the trenches for months at a time, though this is not true, as during the war men would stay behind the lines until their 'turn' in which they would return to the front until they are replaced once more.
This is in Entente forces. The German army really did not do a good job rotating at all and would just leave divisions at the front for extended periods. Even if they did a rotation inside that division they would not get very long away. Also you have the major catastrophic battles with over 150,000 active combatants per side where the cohesion broke down a lot. Its part of the reason France mutinied in 1917, they stopped receiving promised leave essentially at all.
My dad was in WW2 in the far East The British Tommy spent a week at the front line the '😂 as my dad used to say the poor old Gurkhas spent Three Weeks and dad spent all the remaining time in and out of mental hospital spending the year before he died sectioned under the mental health act under lock and key that is War
The song "Oh! It's a Lovely War" was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.[13] The lyrics of the first verse and the chorus are as follows:
Wikipedia has this to say about the song: "The song "Oh! It's a Lovely War" was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.[11
A lot of people think WW1 started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in 1914 but it was actually used to cause the leading causes of the war to fall into place. Prior to the murder war was always on the brink in Europe especially between Germany and Britain/France. Germany were a developing country since 1870 after France lose the Prussian war and they simply wanted to add their own industries and have their own colonies particularly as Britain had countries like India, Canada and Australia as colonies and France had a few in Africa. Germany were also allies with Austria-Hungary as well as Italy (who joined the allies in the war) known as the Tripal Alliance and Britain, France and Russia were allies in the Triple entente. This meant that if one nation was in trouble the other nations of the same party would intervene. Russia were also allies with Serbia due to the Slavaic population. Consequently Russia supported Serbia when Austria declared war on Serbia. Germany then declared war on both Russia and France for supporting Serbia and Russia respectively. And Britain entered the war once Germany invaded Belgium due to being allies with the Belgians since 1839. And as such the Great War had begun or as Sir Edward Grey famously quoted "The lights all over Europe were going out". Had the two parties not existed then it would had been likely the war would still break out but just in a different manner. And even though it is commonly agreed Germany started the war it was actually Serbia. Had Serbia's Black Hand terrorists not plotted the attack on Franz Ferdinand the war would had not broken out the way it did.
@@yelnatsstanley7363 Germany and its mad emperor did by pushing for war when several time his british and russian cousis urged him to go to put this question into the haugu international court. The fool wanted war, and he destroyed half of Europe's monarchies
i can't respect the Tommys of ww1 enough those men who risked it all and gave their lives to a living hell and still won with a British attitude are men who will live and die with honor forever within my heart and mind who i thank daily for the privileges i have because of the heroes who sacrificed their lives and youth to the free world i thank you all every man woman and horse you all are heroes to me
Many of those that came home were damaged physically and mentally from the ordeal.. my grandfather was gassed in 1915, and demobed... he didn't think war was anything but hell and damnation... he had seen service in South Africa and was a career soldier... it was a job like any other... Mr Taylor has a very romanticized view of war...
Damn, so true. All the dead and wounded. For some guy in another country. “Come Briton, fight for your country!’ Brit: You mean fight to avenge some royal Austrian and because some old guys in London don’t want the Austrians to annex Serbia? ‘Correct’
It is nessary. Without it, what and where would we be? We wopuld be dumb, and be with worse technology. Useually, the militar invents a lot of stuff, and later on it gets better faster that way, and gets put intho a civilian use
+Garmo Garmo Not to mention war typically prevents genocides in many cases. If WWII never happened and Nazi Germany never fell... Then... Well.. The only cases i can think of where a war went hand in hand was wars that peaceful nations didn't intervene in or intervened to late i.e. Bosnian war and any war in africa.
Colton Jack yeah. I understand a lot of god people die in war and innocent as well, but war is needed. Of course i never served. bUT i want to, and i read a ton and seen and watchedm any documenteris and all, i can picture it or at least relate to things, and multiplay it a ton and i can kinda get the feel of being terrified and helpless as being shot at. But the effect and sound and smells, i have yet to smell. Im sure it sucks, but at same time it helps and saves people, makes and destoys friendships and makes countries stronger and destroys the weaker ones
what a foolish thing to say. How can you possibly excuse a war like WW1 as being needed? By god, you're just as oblivious as the officers that led these troops to their graves!
Matthew Lum Maybe the cause of it shoouldve never reached the scale the war was and many people died, but without it, planes wouldve never advanced their tecjhnologys as fast, same wityh cars, weapons, tanks, and medicine... And lets say the parts those things are amde out of such as tracks on tanks or etc etc, that stuff could be made better for civilian use such as farming or you know transport, health, so there is always a good thing about it, And a more asd point of view but true, is that it killed enough people to hurt thr population a ton, meaning less resources being used up, and less land being taken up, ewtc etc.. So it is kinda like a good thing so were not over croweded and all
Oh yeah. That's right. Excuse me... *Clears throat* Guys I don't know about you, but I'm only -0.2 years old and I'm watching this video In 300237 and I love it. i was born in the wrong generation.
No game could match up to real life. This song is from the real war. Not a dumb video game. If this game is used as the theme for battlefield 1 I will hate the game. Its why I didn't like bo3, because they stole a rolling stones song.
Ever hear of the game "Verdun"? That is probably the only game that has a chance at matching up to real life.. To an extent that is, lovely game, they only use the songs from the era to.. make it more realistic.. You have to except a few wonderful things.
uhh...well I've always thought this song was rather sarcastic I don't know anything about the play that came out years later though, I've had people try to annotate this song and they get the same thing. anyone mind explaining?
+tobytylersf i believe they're saying the satirical song may've been seen as a serious statement. therefore young men would sign up to fight the 'lovely war', and thus have gotten themselves killed by the 'bullets, shells and gas' you mentioned.
Actually, the trench diseases and conditions killed more soldiers. Some even inflicted wounds on themselves to get out of the disgusting, uncomfortable boredem and died.
No it didnt, the song was made in 1917 when the horrors of the trenches was already well established, the song satirises the entire notion of soldiering with lyrics like "Oh it's a cushy life, boys, REALLY we love it so!" and "What's the matter with lumps of onion floating around the tea?". The satire made it a hit amongst serving personnel in WW1 and WW2.
Upo to your waist in water, Up to your eyes in slush, Using the kind of language, That makes the sergeant blush. Who wouldn't join the army? That's what we all inquire; Don't we pity the poor civilian, Sitting beside the fire. Oh, oh, oh, it's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay; As sonn as reveille is gone, We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings us breakfast up to bed.
Kinda reminds me from when I was in. Granted, I was safe as churches compared to these lads, but the constant backhanded whinging, sarcasm, and gallows humour part and partial to anyone that could wake up in the morning dead and whose fate is owned by a imbecile on the other side of the world.
A British soldier could storm the gates of Hell and he'd still find an excuse to crack a joke.
A joke!!! HA NEVER!!!
My son's are the funny ones
It's not exclusive to England, though if you look at it with really squinted eyed, and I mean so squinted your eyes are practically closed, you could say I'm English.
"*A tad stuffy in 'ere, doncha think, George?*"
You’re damn right, mate.
The fact that some people don’t realize this is satire scares me.
It can be hard at first if you see it from a certain view. I mean Britons being forced to fight a land war with a million casualties just because some Austrian guy got shot. It wouldn’t surprise me if the old men in London that pushed for the war thought such a song might help in recruiting. 🤷🏻♂️
@British Pride The Brits defending Belgium’s neutrality? How noble.
not really, it was used in a lot of advertisements during the war to keep morale among the men in regards to food. I'm not sure if satire is 100% the best fit.
@British Pride And then occupied part of Greece, a neutral country, How noble.
It's actually from a prowar musical that wasn't successful and the song writers kept only this song deciding that it was the only aspect salvageable and they were correct as it was repurposed for the war
"Using the kind of language that makes the Sergeant blush!" 'OLY SHIT! ARTILLERY!
MOTHER FUDGING ENEMY INFANTRY AHEAD MAN THE MACHINE GUNS DAMMIT!
GOD DAM TANKS AHEAD
IM SHOT DAMMIT GET ME A MEDIC!
*sargent blushing and smiling *
Tehee oh stop it private~
SIR IM BLEEDIN OUT OF MY FUCKING CHEST
Sometimes, i stay on Verdun Menu just for listen these song.
+7542uyhgf5 tipperary
7542uyhgf5 Really? That is cool.
so that means....its really not a long way to tipperary
I stay on the menu because of battle fatigue the game gave me
I stay on the menu because of battle fatigue the game gave me
Superb satire.
Possibly the best satirical song in existence.
call me old fashioned but i love the ww1 and ww2 tunes, they are jolly banter
Bro I make my friends listen to them and they're like ewwww no and I'm like bro this slaps
@@Miyukiareyouintroubleagain this music does slap
Lyrics:
Up to your waist in water,
Up to your eyes in slush,
Using the kind of language
That makes the sergeants blush
Who wouldn't join the army?
That's what we all enquire,
Don't we pity the poor civilians
Sitting around the fire
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
As soon as reveille has gone
We feel just as heavy as lead,
But we never get up till the sergeant
Brings our breakfast up to bed
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
What do you want with eggs and ham
When you've got plum and apple jam?
Form fours! Right turn!
How shall we spend the money we earn?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
As soon as reveille has gone
We feel just as heavy as lead,
But we never get up till the sergeant
Brings our breakfast up to bed, what?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
What do you want with eggs and ham
When you've got plum and apple jam?
Form fours! Right turn!
How shall we spend the money we earn?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
Come to the cook-house door, boys,
Sniff at the lovely stew,
Who is it says the colonel
Gets better grub than you?
Any complaints this morning?
Do we complain? Not we
What's the matter with lumps of onion
Floating around your tea?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
As soon as reveille has gone
We feel just as heavy as lead,
But we never get up till the sergeant
Brings our breakfast up to bed
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
What do you want with eggs and ham
When you've got plum and apple jam?
Form fours! Right turn!
How shall we spend the money we earn?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
As soon as reveille has gone
We feel just as heavy as lead,
But we never get up till the sergeant
Brings our breakfast up to bed
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war,
What do you want with eggs and ham
When you've got plum and apple jam?
Form fours! Right turn!
How shall we spend the money we earn?
Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
I am sure that on two occasions in the song the 'Form fours, Right turn' is substituted with something else that sounds to me like 'Home fires ...... ' and I cannot make out the second half.
the most ironic song in european history
I believe that was the point, and it's beautiful.
It's actually not ironic, but propaganda
It's sarcastic, not propoganda
It’s not European it’s British
@Cliff Kool sorry fam erika was composed way later, 1930s I think.
The Irony in this song with the pictures
its satire
A song after my sarcastic heart.
What I'd do to shake every british grunts hand from The Great War.
That'll send the audience out with a smile on their face!
0 dislikes you know this song slaps
still good in 2023
👇
Many people think that during the war, the soldiers would sleep in the trenches for months at a time, though this is not true, as during the war men would stay behind the lines until their 'turn' in which they would return to the front until they are replaced once more.
Yes. In a typical trench tour it was unusual to spend more than 3 days in a forward position
This is in Entente forces. The German army really did not do a good job rotating at all and would just leave divisions at the front for extended periods. Even if they did a rotation inside that division they would not get very long away.
Also you have the major catastrophic battles with over 150,000 active combatants per side where the cohesion broke down a lot. Its part of the reason France mutinied in 1917, they stopped receiving promised leave essentially at all.
And sometimes soldiers may have to do more time in the trenches depending on number of deaths
My dad was in WW2 in the far East The British Tommy spent a week at the front line the '😂 as my dad used to say the poor old Gurkhas spent Three Weeks and dad spent all the remaining time in and out of mental hospital spending the year before he died sectioned under the mental health act under lock and key that is War
The song "Oh! It's a Lovely War" was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.[13] The lyrics of the first verse and the chorus are as follows:
2:02 REKT !!!
Wretch
I know XDDD
"It's a shame to take the pay". LO quietly, internally, desperately.
2019 and it’s still a lovely song
like that war they're singing about
Can’t believe it’s been exactly 100 years since the armistice
Leave it to the British to make dying in a trench sound like a good time
Remember the brave British men who lost their lives at the somme
My family as fought in every conflict that Ireland, UK, and US has been in I feel happy to say this and are grateful for their sacrifices.
Even the 100 years war?
@@thebirds4588 I can say it with almost certainty
@@rommosher No you can't. Infant I can check for you.
@@gubgub3275 wow this comment is a great example of how to not get anyone to reply to you
even the troubles?
Respect to those who died/thought in world war 1 and every other war that has happened or that is happening 💕 good luck
Sarah Overman Sorry, thought what in the Great War?
You actual meme.
@@coloneledward6551 fought*
This song sure is catchy
Wikipedia has this to say about the song: "The song "Oh! It's a Lovely War" was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.[11
What I listen while playing bf1
Weird to think that everyone in the video (the pictures) are dead
yup
Tends to be true of all 100+ year old photos.
ye
or died in war
"War is hell"
"War never changes"
And it's a lovely hell!
Nah m8, war is worse then hell.
This was the young boys' imagination when it was the first days of the war.
A lot of people think WW1 started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in 1914 but it was actually used to cause the leading causes of the war to fall into place. Prior to the murder war was always on the brink in Europe especially between Germany and Britain/France. Germany were a developing country since 1870 after France lose the Prussian war and they simply wanted to add their own industries and have their own colonies particularly as Britain had countries like India, Canada and Australia as colonies and France had a few in Africa. Germany were also allies with Austria-Hungary as well as Italy (who joined the allies in the war) known as the Tripal Alliance and Britain, France and Russia were allies in the Triple entente. This meant that if one nation was in trouble the other nations of the same party would intervene. Russia were also allies with Serbia due to the Slavaic population. Consequently Russia supported Serbia when Austria declared war on Serbia. Germany then declared war on both Russia and France for supporting Serbia and Russia respectively. And Britain entered the war once Germany invaded Belgium due to being allies with the Belgians since 1839. And as such the Great War had begun or as Sir Edward Grey famously quoted "The lights all over Europe were going out".
Had the two parties not existed then it would had been likely the war would still break out but just in a different manner.
And even though it is commonly agreed Germany started the war it was actually Serbia. Had Serbia's Black Hand terrorists not plotted the attack on Franz Ferdinand the war would had not broken out the way it did.
All wars are banksters wars. Governments are merely puppets to the oligarch world controllers.
Damn Serbia starting everything
@@yelnatsstanley7363 Germany and its mad emperor did by pushing for war when several time his british and russian cousis urged him to go to put this question into the haugu international court. The fool wanted war, and he destroyed half of Europe's monarchies
I heard it was because a man named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry...?
Y'know the sad thing is that unless I did my own research I would believe that it started because of Ferdinand the education system is truly legendary
This song is drenched in British black comedy
i can't respect the Tommys of ww1 enough those men who risked it all and gave their lives to a living hell and still won with a British attitude are men who will live and die with honor forever within my heart and mind who i thank daily for the privileges i have because of the heroes who sacrificed their lives and youth to the free world i thank you all every man woman and horse you all are heroes to me
cyber taylor over 80% of Brits came home in 1919, my condolences to those 20% who never returned
Many of those that came home were damaged physically and mentally from the ordeal.. my grandfather was gassed in 1915, and demobed... he didn't think war was anything but hell and damnation... he had seen service in South Africa and was a career soldier... it was a job like any other... Mr Taylor has a very romanticized view of war...
Best song ever I love it 😻
War. War never changes. I can remember alot of this shit during bootcamp. Thank god it wasn't real half of my platoon would have died.
0:17-0:20 that's the melody of "Marching through Georgia"
I was thinking so too.
Sarge, why are we fighting this war? I dunno, some Austrian got shot or something now, CHARGE!
We’ll Sir Are We Eating Eggs??? NO SOLDIER WER EATING WAR!!!
The war started because some bloke named archie duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.
@@llenny_uwu1398 lol
@@llenny_uwu1398 So that poor old ostrich died for nothing
Damn, so true. All the dead and wounded. For some guy in another country.
“Come Briton, fight for your country!’
Brit: You mean fight to avenge some royal Austrian and because some old guys in London don’t want the Austrians to annex Serbia?
‘Correct’
i have a playlist full of songs like this to play while playing verdun
11.11.2018
Lest We Forget.
First heard this in the movie "Oh What A Lovely War" which came out in 1969.Another ironic song was "Good-bye-ee!"
Verdun? Game?
I came here for the same reason
same
Yep. This game personifies Verdun for me. I love listening to it in the lobby.
Same
I actually came here from the men of war great war realism mod
One of my favourites of this type of British Satirical entertainment is The Wipers Times and of course the film Oh what a lovely war!
I did not know sarcasm was a thing during the great war.
Sarcasm exist as long as Britons i suppose, almost an inseparable sides of a coin
positively sopping wet with sarcasm
Verdun..My Favorit song
The 90s U.K. sitcom mrs Merton and Malcom brought me here as this was one of the songs sung to the bedridden mr Merton by his friend Arthur Capstick.
war horse is a excellent movie, watch it
this feels like 5 stages of grief
It’s a shame that no one plays Verdun on PS4. You only get around 3 people a game
Mud, artillery, gas and suicide missions over the top... How lovely.
"War, its fantastic". -Hot Shots Part Deux
The song is IRONIC not meant to rouse the spirits to go to war. War is a tragedy and unnecessary. Are we worthy of their sacrifice?
It is nessary. Without it, what and where would we be? We wopuld be dumb, and be with worse technology. Useually, the militar invents a lot of stuff, and later on it gets better faster that way, and gets put intho a civilian use
+Garmo Garmo
Not to mention war typically prevents genocides in many cases. If WWII never happened and Nazi Germany never fell... Then... Well..
The only cases i can think of where a war went hand in hand was wars that peaceful nations didn't intervene in or intervened to late i.e. Bosnian war and any war in africa.
Colton Jack yeah. I understand a lot of god people die in war and innocent as well, but war is needed. Of course i never served. bUT i want to, and i read a ton and seen and watchedm any documenteris and all, i can picture it or at least relate to things, and multiplay it a ton and i can kinda get the feel of being terrified and helpless as being shot at. But the effect and sound and smells, i have yet to smell. Im sure it sucks, but at same time it helps and saves people, makes and destoys friendships and makes countries stronger and destroys the weaker ones
what a foolish thing to say. How can you possibly excuse a war like WW1 as being needed? By god, you're just as oblivious as the officers that led these troops to their graves!
Matthew Lum Maybe the cause of it shoouldve never reached the scale the war was and many people died, but without it, planes wouldve never advanced their tecjhnologys as fast, same wityh cars, weapons, tanks, and medicine... And lets say the parts those things are amde out of such as tracks on tanks or etc etc, that stuff could be made better for civilian use such as farming or you know transport, health, so there is always a good thing about it,
And a more asd point of view but true, is that it killed enough people to hurt thr population a ton, meaning less resources being used up, and less land being taken up, ewtc etc.. So it is kinda like a good thing so were not over croweded and all
Lest we forget
Any complaints this morning?
Do we complain? Not we.
What's the matter with lumps of onion floating around your tea?
lest we forget
oh oh oh, es ist ein schöner Krieg
Better music then the rap crap we have now.
this but unironically
Yeah
Shut the fuck up loser
I agree I don't like rap I like this kind of music.
Ronil Doshi chill
o it’s a shame to take the pay bahahahha
I blast this when I play Battlefield 1
Do people still play battlefield 1?
This is giving me flashbacks....no no James the bombs are falling oh wait James just spawned in
Why are all music video comments cancer?
Anonymity
Oh yeah. That's right. Excuse me... *Clears throat*
Guys I don't know about you, but I'm only -0.2 years old and I'm watching this video In 300237 and I love it. i was born in the wrong generation.
WalrusQuake
Lol :P
Oh the irony of this song.
I cracked up at its a shame to take the pay.
Lovely war....well now times have changed.
Megan it was mocking the war
NUKES TERRORIST AMERICA AMERICA EYAH NORTHKOREA YEAH YEAH NUKES WOOO BOMBS AHHAHAHA TNAKS!!! JESTSSSSS- War rn
You do understand that this song is mocking the war right?
See you in 1914 Battlefield fans!
No game could match up to real life. This song is from the real war. Not a dumb video game. If this game is used as the theme for battlefield 1 I will hate the game. Its why I didn't like bo3, because they stole a rolling stones song.
"this game used the wrong song i hate it" Then you'll probably never be satisfied with anything.
Hey It's Ron Here They should make their own songs in stead of stealing classics. #downwithcodfish
Ever hear of the game "Verdun"? That is probably the only game that has a chance at matching up to real life.. To an extent that is, lovely game, they only use the songs from the era to.. make it more realistic.. You have to except a few wonderful things.
Tongus
Yeah, I play Verdun a lot
British and their satire and sarcastic language.
Verdun pls :D
Well if it's in the context of the first world war. Technically they died for Belgium.
Just going through “Songs that won the war” daily express community song book no. 3... my kids are getting exposed to this stuff!!
god save those who saved our empire
Correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure this was writen after the war??
It was a lovely war if you did mostly paperwork!
Joan Ruiz Jacob well this song was mocking the war
This reminds me of fallout music.
its most like Monty Python, though,
this is for my inglisg clas
@DustyCarnage no it isnt, its a period song; the play wasnt written for another 50 years
17 - 20.000.000 Deaths ! Lovely ?
it's satire
Song: It’s a lovely war!!
Pictures: *on the contrary*
Song is satire.
@@Falkriim bold of you to assume i don’t know that
@@vividio
Well you can’t relay blame me considering some of the comments
@@Falkriim yes i can
@@vividio
Saying that the pictures are on the contrary to the song is what gave me that perspective.
In fact, it didn't turn out to be a lovely war
This was satire.
@@WedgePee this comment is satire
Steampunk Tower (Y)
uhh...well I've always thought this song was rather sarcastic
I don't know anything about the play that came out years later though, I've had people try to annotate this song and they get the same thing. anyone mind explaining?
is it just me or is that song just being sarcastic... eh I think that was to be taking literly well to the Army I go!!!!
Oh such blindness
It is an anti-war song... If you've seen the show you'd understand... It's very satirical and sarcastic
0:58 Summer 1916 :)
Im still alive in case ur wondering
@@moravianmargrave6509 are you still alive?
@@le_matis I died inside but my body is still here
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!
My ass
GLAD TO HELP BRITAIN
FROM A YANKEE
"A free world" You don't know what world war one was about, do you?
1:14 Does that dude on the left not look like Hitler without a mustache?
Höt Län holy crap it does.
Well he fought in WW1
Höt Län
The mustache hadn’t been made infamous yet. It was fairly popular before Hitler made it a cardinal sin simply by having it.
I don't think it was a lovely war
imagine stewie and brian singing this against the chaos of a middle eastern battle
Millions of teens marched to their death to this song. I think learning it is a small price to pay.
Sadly songs like these got thousands of young men killed 101 years ago.
+Dug Triplefour It's a satirical song, so logically, it wouldn't; but I admit some may have seen it as a serious song.
+Dug Triplefour Actually, I think the bullets, shells and gas did more killing than any songs.
Young people have odd ideas...
+tobytylersf i believe they're saying the satirical song may've been seen as a serious statement. therefore young men would sign up to fight the 'lovely war', and thus have gotten themselves killed by the 'bullets, shells and gas' you mentioned.
Actually, the trench diseases and conditions killed more soldiers. Some even inflicted wounds on themselves to get out of the disgusting, uncomfortable boredem and died.
No it didnt, the song was made in 1917 when the horrors of the trenches was already well established, the song satirises the entire notion of soldiering with lyrics like "Oh it's a cushy life, boys, REALLY we love it so!" and "What's the matter with lumps of onion floating around the tea?". The satire made it a hit amongst serving personnel in WW1 and WW2.
WW1, The most frightening and cruel war that a soldier could have lived.
iT's a loVelY wAr
british humor is always either absolutely awful or the most funny shit you'll ever hear in your life
British cynism and ironism at their finest...
Upo to your waist in water, Up to your eyes in slush, Using the kind of language, That makes the sergeant blush. Who wouldn't join the army? That's what we all inquire; Don't we pity the poor civilian, Sitting beside the fire. Oh, oh, oh, it's a lovely war, Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay; As sonn as reveille is gone, We feel just as heavy as lead, But we never get up till the sergeant Brings us breakfast up to bed.
Kinda reminds me from when I was in. Granted, I was safe as churches compared to these lads, but the constant backhanded whinging, sarcasm, and gallows humour part and partial to anyone that could wake up in the morning dead and whose fate is owned by a imbecile on the other side of the world.
Im i the only one from 2016
Nope
+Roman Kopnov As well as I. Kind of weird to think this song's probably 100 years old by now. Sorry I don't know the exact date it was produced.
+Ross Lovell Right? Weird to listen to the sounds of people long gone.
+Ross Lovell 1917 I believe.
No. You're not special for listening to old music.
is it weird that I'm a kid and i love this song?
I thought I was the only one
No. You're not special.
literally nobody cares
Is it weird that I identify as a kv 2 heavy tank and i love this song?
Jesus. No