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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The Green Fields Of France (page 5/ 6) ------ performed by Dropkick Murphys Vain | Reviewer: Wes | 6/1/07 As somebody said, this war was called the "war to end wars" and so the fighting, it seems, was done in vain. About the song The Green Fields of France performed by Dropkick Murphys | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/30/07 The song is about the evils of war, and whether of not they are necessary, but also about the soldiers we have forgotten. This song shows that we separate ourselves from the pain of the world beyond. Don't forget those who died, then and in the future. great | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/29/07 Great song. I like this version better than the Fureys. oh and they did storm beaches in WWI. Such as Gallipoli, probably one of the biggest massacres there was. the pontless war | Reviewer: Richie | 5/25/07 only 2 of the 8 men from my family came back from WW1 so this song really important to me as an English person who had family in both wars Neither Anti-war nor Tribute | Reviewer: Max | 5/3/07 The notion that there would be one war to end wars altogether is pretty preposterious. It's a marvellous song, I've sung it myself through tears. I believe that its a song to remind the young and impressionable that there is no glory in war, as Hemingway said, ask the dead. The terror, pain and suffering lasts long past the last rifle crack. While war itself is a permenent fixture created by the human condition, songs like this are here to remind us to question the cause that will ultimatly claim young lives of brave soldiers. was WWI necessary | Reviewer: JB Swift | 4/26/07 The idea that the irish lad who died in the song died for a cause or that the americans who died for "freedom" is preposterous, the war was unnecessary, it was mearly the result of european insecurities forming alliances which escalated an event which was not that big of a deal. No country's freedom was threatened, (there were no genocides in WWI except for the armenians in Turkey but that was different). Wars may need to be fought, WWI was not one of those wars, the song was written in the 60s by Eric Bogle who wrote it to remind people that sometimes wars are pointless, IE, Vietnam (again we were not fighting for any country's freedom only the ability to keep a popularly elected communist government down in vietnam and instead prop up a southern vietnamese dictator), and the Dropkick Murpheys re-released it as a protest for the Iraq war (again a war not over "freedom" since iraq was not responsible for terrorism or any other conflicts with the USA). This song is used to remember that sometimes war isnt necessary, and each of those three examples are times when it wasnt The Men Who Died | Reviewer: Callie | 3/30/07 I disagree with the last stanza of the song. I don't believe the men died in vain at all. Sometimes war IS needed. Those men fought bravely for their countries. I'm very proud of France, England, my own United States, and all the others. I personally would kill for my own freedom and that's what they did for theirs as well as ours. God Bless are troops. Ones who are. Ones who once were. And ones who are to come. An Anti-War Song, Not a Tribute | Reviewer: Bruce Cronin | 3/23/07 I appreciate the feelings of the Belgian woman who sees this song as a "thank you to the generation that died" for her country, but it is clearly about the waste of their lives that the war brought about. The sadness goes beyond the death of the very young soldier (19 years old). The writer wonders whether Willie McBride died alone and forgotten, and whether he and the others who lay with him really believed that there was ever a cause worth dying for. By the way, the reference to the "war to end wars" comes from President Woodrow Wilson, who said (as he rallied the American public just as the U.S. was entering the war in 1917) that the Great War (as it was called at the time) would be a war to end all wars. Twenty years later we had World War II and following that, more than fifty million people have died in "smaller" wars around the world. Explaining the Reference... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/13/07 "Did you really believe that this war would end wars?" Before World War II, World War I wasn't referred to as WWI (which wouldn't make sense without WWII, right?) it was referred to as "The war to end all wars". (Just in case the reviewers below ever come back to this page) Let's go Murphy's! | Reviewer: Spencer Guthro | 2/23/07 The green fields of France is an outstanding song. It was so great to me I decided to do my English report on it. Hey,it got me an A...so it must be good =) Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6