This version is a little too pretty for my taste. I prefer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xc6sgdfJXbg.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4VoOovy0ZNs.html and to blow you out of the water, plus a juxtaposed video of children and war ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QEUmJR3-Um8.html
I have seen the full video somewhere else and his explanation of this song is superb. Here, that introduction was simply omitted. Too bad... But, yes, this guy has no match...
I don't know much about this song's historical facts and I don't know anything about this perfomer. But, here is the interesting thing about it... It works wonders when you have to put baby to sleep. I discovered this with my son 5 years ago, and now doing the same thing with my baby daughter who is two months old. Just play this on RU-vid, put the cellphone near and carry the baby and walk similarly to army marching up and down the apartment. I'm really grateful for this video. Greetings from Croatia.
I love Irish music. I was playing at the drunken LASS, HOOLIGAN'S & SCOTTY O'NEILS ONCE A WK; you'd have thought i was IRISH..¿₩TH? YOU'D BE WRONG; I'M A WELSCH, ENGLISH, & DUTCH BLEND, (0H NO, & a Touch of RUSSIAN..) DR. ZIVAGO i HOPE..❗❔❗
The island of Ceylon is known today as Sri Lanka. This is a song on the kandyan wars fought in Sri Lanka. Kandyan wars are the final wars in Indian subcontinent by the British empire. As a Sri Lankan this song is important to us as well. Interconnected history right across the world.
Thanks, @@stphnmrrs3982, after a good deal of google searching, I found Luxon, you can see below, and thank you very much for adding the banjo player, Bill Crofut. I guess the original poster thought that they were so famous everyone would instantly know them. That is a very young, Benjamin Luxon there, whose rendition of the song, is nothing short of, magnificent. I did not know of him, or his deeply rich baritone. I'm going to have to check out his operatic performances. Thanks again, Stephen!
