****Note added 25 April 2010: When I was asked to create this presentation for a Remembrance Day assembly, I didn't know how I would show an "anti-war" song at an event that is supposed to honour our veterans. At the same time, war and military conflict was such a distant concept for our students, I wanted to some how make history relevant to them, let alone an "Australian" song that most of the our middle school students have never heard. The more I listened to Bogle's words, the more I realized that this song was about more than a moment in history. It's about how history repeats itself and the great sacrifices that are made during war and how futile it all is if we fail to learn from our mistakes. Making the transition from B/W to full colour to coincide with Bogle's words "We started all over again," I wanted to show how war is part of our past, present and (unfortunately) future. Great sacrifices have been made because of war. Bogle asks "What are they marching for?" I say they are marching to honour those sacrifices. If any veteran is offended by this video, I truly do apologize. ************************* April 25 - ANZAC Day November 11 - Remembrance Day "Waltzing Matilda" is a very famous Australian folk song and a "Matilda" was the name given to the pack that Australian farm workers carried on their backs. To "Waltz Matilda" meant to carry your pack of belongings through the bush. The song "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle is about Australian .... + Informações

I must admit I love Ronnie Drew and the Dubliner's version of this song, but it was Eric who wrote it and wow what a songwriter he is! Buy this DVD, I highly recommend it!. + Informações

Nice version sung in English and German By Eric Bogle and Wachol (German lyrics composed by Hannes Wader). + Informações

Written and sung by Eric Bogle. AKA The Green Fields of France and Willie McBride.. + Informações

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, song sung by Eric Bogle.. + Informações

Eric Bogle - If Wishes Were Fishes. + Informações

Summer's smiling on the city, it's another lovely day in Sydney, sunshine pouring down like honey. But in the room where Clare is dying, no sunshine sends the shadows flying, no children gather round her crying, there's no one there at all, except perhaps for the man who sees each little sparrow fall. Don't talk to me about lonely souls crying, dark quiet rooms with old people dying. I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear it at all. Tired old people die alone every day, don't blame me, I didn't make it that way. That's just how it is, don't look for a reason at all. Winter weeping on the city, a wet and windy day in Sydney, rain drops rolling fat and heavy down Clare's window pane. The raindrops on the tin roof beating, disturbing rats as they are feeding. Back to the nest they all go creeping, leaving Clare alone again. It's been a long and lonely time since Clare could hear the rain. Don't talk to me about the meaning of life; don't sing your songs that cut like a knife. I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear it at all. Lonely old people ain't my concern, from dust we come, to dust we return and that's all there is, don't look for a reason in it all. Spring has come at last to Sydney; flowers are blooming in the city. In all their multicoloured glory, they rise to greet the year. Memories in chain recalling, footsteps on the front porch falling, voices through the window calling, is anybody here Clare Campbell's lost and lonely soul is a long, long way from here .... + Informações

Nice song about the Demon drink... + Informações

Leaving Nancy was the first song Eric wrote for himself, about the pain as he left his mother Nancy at the train station when he was emigrating to Australia. It's a song that many people from all parts os the world can relate to due to their own experiences of leaving loved ones. A sad but lovely song.. + Informações

Farewell tour with John Munroe in Cleckheaton town hall. + Informações

Howdy, folks! The ending to this song got cut out by LITERALLY half a second. I do not feel like re-recording it, as this would be the fourth time I've had to do it. I shall re-record it at a later date, but, as I said, it's only missing a half second. Anyhoo.. It's a fantastic song. It comes from the album Plain and Simple. Hope ya dig it! --Lyrics-- Well, here's a song I've written, specifically for you Who sit down in the audience and talk through all I do I cannot understand it cause I'm pretty good, you see So there must be something wrong with you, there's nothing wrong with me [Chorus:] You're a bloody rotten audience whilst I am very good If brains were made of oak and ash then you'd have balsa wood I'm ethnic and authentic and I'm really full of class While you're ignorant, you're cultureless, you're philistines en masse. I'm an artist and authority on music and what's more I'm incredibly informative on folksong and folklore I'm a wonderful performer and so you all must be So bloody thick and stupid not to like the like of me [Chorus] I'm a folkie and that's obvious, you can tell it by me clothes And when I sing traditional, I sing it through me nose And if you persist on talking every time I sing a song I'll fix you with 'Bold Robin Hood,' that's eighty verses long! [Chorus] And when I sing contemporary, me heart and soul is pure I must be bloody brilliant, cause my writing's so obscure My hero's Leonard Cohen, I dig him perfectly But I must be so much better .... + Informações

Eric Bogle and John Munroe in Cleckheaton on their farwell tour. + Informações

the story of the horses and mules left behind after ww1 in the middle east. + Informações

I first met Eric in 19/6566/67 In a folk club held in the Cross Keys Hotel in Peebles(Scotland) this is one Eric's best songs. + Informações

Live From The Stonyfell WInery, Australia in 2009. A Scottish man living in Australia, one of the greatest folk singer/songwriters.. + Informações

Eric Bogle wrote many songs about WOI. This one is probably the best known.. + Informações

Eric Bogle is roundish, shortish, baldish, fiftyish and Scottish. An Australian resident for 35 years, and an Australian citizen since 1982, he is an internationally known and respected singer/songwriter and has been taking his music around the world for the last 25 years or so, in spite of warnings to "stop it or you'll go blind."Got my ticket for Eric's last concert tour 24th. August. + Informações

Tribute video of The Dubliners & Ronnie Drew's classic version of Eric Bogle anti-war song - The Band played Waltzing Matilda, with photos from the Anzacs Gallipoli Campaign. Almost 4000 members of the Royal Dublin Fusilers also died at Gallipoli.. + Informações

With John Munroe farewell tour from Cleckheaton town hall. + Informações

Song 16, from Eric Bogle's fantastic DVD 'Live at the Stonyfell Winery' back in 2009. Highly recommend getting this, it's a first class performance. twitter.com - follow me, if you like!. + Informações

Now when I was a young man I carried me pack And I lived the free life of the rover. From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over. Then in 1915, my country said, "Son, It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done." So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, And they marched me away to the war. And the band played "Waltzing Matilda," As the ship pulled away from the quay, And amidst all the cheers, the flag waving, and tears, We sailed off for Gallipoli. And how well I remember that terrible day, How our blood stained the sand and the water; And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter. Johnny Turk, he was waitin', he primed himself well; He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell -- And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell, Nearly blew us right back to Australia. But the band played "Waltzing Matilda," When we stopped to bury our slain, Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, Then we started all over again. And those that were left, well, we tried to survive In that mad world of blood, death and fire. And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive Though around me the corpses piled higher. Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, And when I woke up in me hospital bed And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead -- Never knew there was worse things than dying. For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda," All around the .... + Informações

The classic song about the life of an Australian farmer, one of many great songs by Eric Bogle. This song is on my first CD: "AXIS OF EVIL and other True Stories." You can see a playlist of my Australian songs here: www.youtube.com You can see a playlist of my Eric Bogle songs here: www.youtube.com For lyrics and chords of all my songs please see my website: www.raymondcrooke.com. + Informações

funny song. + Informações

1/21 A great DVD, highly recommend for you to buy it. Emmigrated from Scotland to Australia in the 1960s For those of you who don't know him, he wrote: No Man's Land (Green Fields Of France) The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Leaving Nancy and Now I'm Easy among many, many more.. + Informações

A fantastic singer and songwriter this is probably one of his most famous songs. Live from the Stonyfell Winery in 2009.. + Informações