Bought me to tears . My husband was killed in action in 2008 . I had 14 years I will never regret despite the difference in rank service and deployments. We watched this series during long skint nights he was putting me through uni. Bought back many happy but unmentionable memories of a great man who it was a honour to have been his adored wife. He was a loud mouth insubordinate but brilliant engineer. Nicknamed velcro by me. No point sewing on a hew stripe he got so frequently busted. My own tribute to him is rather unusual a back full of military tributes from our service numbers to our unit crests and the saltaire depicted like the RN ensign . I'm navy. Very unusual in a woman. I had them softened when I retired but adding of poppies and a sunbeam through clouds. No regrets. We had to go and face another foe but part of me will alway stay over the hills and far away ( the great glen) Dan 1974 to 2008. Your devastated wife
My condolences....my service was without danger and rather insignificant...still proud to have served, and totally in awe of greater men. Keep the faith.
I just wanted to say it sounds like your husband was a great man I'm so sorry for your loss I think there's a little piece of us all over the hill and far away I truly hope for you and your family lifes to be fruitful and filled with happiness may he rest in peace and may you live well and prosper 🙏
I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a great man. I am so glad you spent so many years together. In love and fun and the hardest moments you shared together❤. You and he are so blessed to have all the memories you share and shared. God bless you 🙏 ❤❤
The reason why Sean Bean dies in almost every film he's in is because he's trying to balance the scales from all the times he cheated death in the "Sharpe" series.
This was my grandads favourite song. We played it at his funeral. My grandad was a miner and died of enthasema, same as Pete postletwaite in brassed off. Hope you are still well 10 years on.
Pete Postlethwaite could make you love him in one role and hate him with a vengeance in the next!! The sign of a true master of his craft,. Sadly missed.
I agree.If someone's playing a villain,it's their job to make you hate them or at least dislike them intensely.I loathed Ed Harris so much in one particular role,I hated the sight of him in anything until his role in Apollo 13.
I’ve loved this series for a long time. Every now and then I watch the entire series. I always enjoyed the songs at the end. The saddest episodes were the ones where Perkins was killed, Teresa’s death, then when Harris and Hagman were killed. Those episodes always made me cry
I came looking for this song because I've just started the show, didn't think the first comment would be spoiler that would ruin the rest of the show for me, that was really stupid of me to go the te comment feed, I didn't think
@@stanfordwillis4841 sorry didn’t mean to spoil it for anyone but most of the people have seen the series so they weren’t upset that I mentioned anything. But even then, I mentioned small parts of the series but you still find out why and what happened. But no need to be snippy about it. I’m sure there are other plot lines that are mentioned.
What I didn't like was when they changed how the novels where in the series, Harris in Sharpe's Waterloo novel doesn't appear in the novel but in the episode for unknown resins why did he appear he doesn't in the novel, and Hagman dies a different way instead of dying with Harris, he is wounded in the battle and dies of his wounds in Sharpe's Arms as I read Sharpe's Waterloo, the Chosen Men of course it would have been nice if Parry Jenkins featured in the series shame though, but I have plans to remake it in future,
I got to hold Sgt Harper’s six barrel gun at the ‘Military Oddyssey’ in Kent while having my photo taken with Sgt Harris from the series. He was a regular at the Kent military show!
Fellow American and been watching the series with my dad. Crazy we never heard of this in the states but it’s beyond a incredible story and happy to have stumbled across it to see some historical insight on British history and heroics
@truckwarrior5944 I'll be honest, youtube taught me more of the napoleonic war than I learned in school. If its not the revolution, civil war, ww2 or Vietnam it's barely mentioned.
I don't know why I am listening to this in 2021. Perhaps I'm a fool. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic. Perhaps, but just perhaps, there is more. Much more. Perhaps just Perhaps, some things, just some things, are not limited by time of men. Perhaps I just like what I like? Or maybe, just mabe. Some things don't age. And time has no relevance to them. Because they are true in there own sense. Live free as men, or die as one. That is enough. Even in 2021.
a great song to a great book/show. i use this songs lyrics to get me through some challenging parts of my life. i sung it over and over again when i testified against my boss. amazing how a song can do that. and to FearDivinty, you are the reason why europe hates us. i know i didnt tell him directly but, im in a good mood props to AndyFisher142
I loved this television series . I enjoyed the tales of Sharpe and his platoon in The Napolionic wars . Great stuff well written . I still see the repeates on the Drama channel. I used to watch it with my dad . He would say that it was great telly and far better than the reality shows . I wonder what he would think of the WOKE invasion. Not much I expect.
The original song from 1700’s was about Queen Anne and Winston Churchill’s ancestor John Churchill 1st duke of Marlborough’ army. John Churchill was given Blenheim palace by Queen Anne for his victory at Blenheim in Germany. (His own father was a soldier during the English civil war called Winston Churchill!
As a former professional soldier, I understand this song and this series too well. We go out in service of politicians, most of which are self-interested bullshit, but we hang in for our brothers in arms.
Read the entire Sharpe's series and saw all the videos. I wish they had the budget to start Sharpe's Rifles in India with an illiterate Private Sharpe in the infantry with Hakeswell as his Squad Leader then carried through from there and the Battle of Trafalgar when Sharps was on is way home. The Baker rifle exhibited was one of the best arms the British had at the time for accuracy but frowned upon by the "gentlemen officers" who commanded infantry companies as being too slow to reload. The Baker could reach out to around 200 yards where 100 yards for the smoothbore musket was a challenge at best. Also, the 95th Rifles later became and still are the Royal Green Jackets.
I also would love to remake the Sharpe Series this song will do well for the remake, even to get the books correct that is, and the story correct, even the John Tams character whom plays Daniel Hagman's death at Waterloo, in the episode he dies alongside Harris but in the novel Harris is absent from Waterloo instead of Harris and Hagman dying together Hagman dies in the Battle of Waterloo but mortally wounded dying in Sharpe's arms, I only wish in the series that Parry Jenkins could have been perfect, shame though,
The idea is that each TV episode is diferent from it's book counter point. Both versions are excellent. But this way you can enjoy them both and they are different enough that you won't be bored. And ideally.....purchase both! :)
Can relate. The wife and I, well oiled on drinks bigger than we expected, going back to our car in a more or less empty parking garage -- busting out into 'Were diu Werlt alle min' from Carmina Burana, a song eminently suited to bellowing drunkenly in the night streets. Good acoustics, and some surprised smiles from onlookers.
Sharpe, a nicely done series not quite the same as the books but decently done never the less. A shame there could have been more Sharpe's episodes made.
Does anyone know the history of this song? I heard it in the series Sharpe and love the song, I showed a few friends and they asked about it but I know not
I dunno, while I love Sharpe, I gotta say Cornwell's really refined his style in his new Saxon books with Uhtred and them. Fair is fair, I mean, you'd hope he'd only get better after 30-40 books. Sharpe, of course, will always have the superior sound track.
Well you know Brits and Bulgarians have a long history of colonial and neocolonial affairs ... those comrades he sings about some of them fall at Doiran. Still holding old grudges hey? White hand and force mojor upon your relatives! You know why and you know the concequeses for the house of Windsor!
Let me tell you a little secret: The yearly expenses for medical purposes and treatment of the Sackscobourgotta are very serious. What if suddenly those antiincest medicines disappear? How much life you give them? I give them a week in the present state of the antiincest virus!
@Ein_Kunde_ spit loading never happened it's dangerous and stupid, but there's a reason there were 16 episodes. If it were that bad, it would have been dropped was based off books, and that's the other thing " BOOKS" an account of things that happened during that time, and I wonder how much of that was exaggerated?
