Sarie Marais | The Bands of HM Royal Marines 

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.

Lekker man!

Did he sing it in English?

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

@@vnlpat001 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?

@@vnlpat001 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!

Mi piace : è fantastica e allegra e solenne

Potete avviare

🤣🤣🤣 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.

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

- if ye don belee' me , twas hay's nem : grayg the bruce !

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…

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