I’m an American, but I love all the British patriotic songs, especially the ones from WW II. How could anyone not admire a people that fought years longer than we did? And for too long she stood alone against Hitler. Those songs have such spirit, and show such strength and determination. Sometimes I tear up, because they touch me so.
Wow, I thought she was long gone to be honest (my excuse is that I'm not English, nor British). Shameful for the BBC to want to censor this song -- regardless, but especially so soon after her death. I assume her rendition is one of the most well-known ones.
@@Vingul Yes politics gets everywhere strange that people can get so excited about politics ,i just think politics has no place in sport,entertainment and many other past times.Vere Lynn had such good diction ,note how far she was from the microphone .
God that makes me feel proud to be British... can hear my late granny singing it, she was of that glorious war generation. Scottish by birth British by the grace of God 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@doctorabutros Doc, I'm from Texas as well, like the lad above...have dear friends in Brooklyn. Isn't it great we're old enough, or history-sensitive enough to appreciate Vera Lynn and that time. I have a challenge for anyone to take up: purchase a Balsa, stick and paper Spitfire flying model Aircraft Kit. Putting it together and flying it around the patch does something which starring into a phone will never do. Building confidence is just one of the benefits. It will at least, give one some vague idea of the effort it took to build one Spitfire.. but this is what we did do as kids in the 50's.. play outside in the Sun, build models and read books. TV ruined a lot of that.
England will always be the land of hope and glory (send from France :)) my grand father escape from Nazi in England, integrated the polish free army based in London. if I'm today alive it's surely because of Britain.
today, the world has lost one of its greatest symbols of strength and resistence and briton lost a part of its national identity.. May she forever live in our hearts.
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As an Englishman who’s lived in OZ, NZ and now resides in Canada this makes my back straight and pushes my chest out. In my head I can hear my sweet Welsh Nan in the kitchen singing it now. Wish I could smell her “cowboy breakfast” or Welsh lamb roasting away. What I would do to have Grandad alive in the corner on his stool eating bacon n eggs with a dab of HP reading the paper. Beautiful people. Proud people. Strong people. The world needs more old school grandparents.
I am an old school Scottish Granny, 91 yrs. Still going strong! You brought a tear to my eye Aboot yer Gran! You have a lot to be proud of, All Scot’s do. I’d like to be back in Aberdeen at ‘ Hogmanay’!! Is it still first footing?? 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦🙋♀️
@@johnjones6601 I can relate, I was 8 when war broke out. Aberdeen Scotland was bombed continuously, we had ship yards, and munition factories. Those are memories that stay with you forever. 🏴🇨🇦🙏🏽👍🏻
I'm just an old Texas boy. I lived in Sussex for a year and felt right at home. Was a bit self-conscious of my 'Texas accent at first, but the Brits loved it. This lady, 'Dame Vera Lynn, my goodness she certainly puts the GREAT in Great Britain.
@@chapeltibet4551 I have American cousins and have visited America many times never made it to Texas though wish i had .My second cousin has a boy named Austin though.
You said it, mate. It's not just there in Great Britain but also happening here in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, etc. We're all being hit on the head and told by the critical race theorists that we're all the bad guys, that our histories are bad, and our heroes were bad, as they try to rewrite our histories in order to take over the future. George Orwell had already predicted how the tyrants take power by changing history, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." In 1984, he also wrote, "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Sound familiar? The telescreens are on the wall! They're also in the iPhones, the cars, the TV's. If Bezos, Musk et al. have their way, they'll be on chips inside your head, too.
@@doctorabutros Bro... Spot on..the other book which is perhaps equally as poignant that we read in college in 1962 was Huxley's, Brave New World" which may be even more on point.
I Agree with you and the only way to get Some sense back in this County is to do what I've saying for years and that is to Make Voting Compulsory and get the General Public to Revolte
One of the most inspiring songs ever written, and then to have Vera Lynn singing it. Makes me want to stand up and cheer, and I'm an American. Just fantastic!
At the time of writing it holds both #1 and #10 on the chart (two different versions, I presume). An orchestral version of "Rule Britannia" holds the #2 spot. Heartwarming to see.
@@zanmei7261 take care of the poor neighborhoods that need help in the U.K. Family🇬🇧 comes first. Help others when your own are taken care of!🙏🏽🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦👍🏻
Remember that we will meet her again! She is always with you, flying high as an angel. Rest in peace Dame Vera Lynn 1917-2020. Thanks you for everything, truely an astonishing woman!
Ladies and gentlemen, we must do our very best to get this to the top of the charts. Lets put these snobbish political correctness crazies in their place.
Agree Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland as well join England never thought I’d see division in our island I’m a proud scot and British glad I’m the age I I’m.so sad.
I am a Hong Konger .I am suffering enough from the communist government and party in HK . Hopefully, “The Land of Hope and Glory” may welcome me. Mother I am coming home.
……Vera Lynn’s voice kept the spirits of everyone up during WW2. Especially the troops. Her voice was so pure and beautiful. I still listen to her songs today. Great Dame Vera.👍🏻🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦
With all the recent striff in the UK, this should bring us all together. Those who burned our flag should tremble. This is the land of hope and glory and the home of the free. Whatever happens if we remover this we can move on and be Great Britain together!
i may not live in britan but i feel it my moral duty to up hold the standard of living represented by Great Britain. not only as a member of the Commonwealth but as a servant who pledges allegiance to Her Majesty The Queen. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
I am a loyal Australian, When I was in the cadet corp and later the army I swore on the Holy Bible to serve both Queen and Country. how can I now be a republican> NEVER. God save our Queen
Thank you England for standing alone against the Nazi in WWll. Thank you Jesus for Sir Winston Churchill the image of the greatness of England. From the 🇺🇸
Encompasses a mind set whereby civilization, prosperity and notions of individual rights were brought to the world, not with a vainglorious arrogance, but with certainty of the mission, a mission which outlasted tyrannies of all sorts.. Dame Vera captures the motive force of generations in this rendition...we need remember that over 2 billion people alive today are directly the beneficiaries of that mission, with a couple billion more indirectly touched.........the Empire stood for something in this world....and it was the world that benefitted far more than Britain ever did....
I have no land no glory but I have hope 🇬🇧 love Vera Lynn 💞 England treasure . I will been seeing you one day from a fellow cockney girl godbless darling 💗 you are a true English ROSE xx 💖🇬🇧
Vera is the same generation as my mother who died last year aged 99. With German origin born in today Lithuania there are so many things which are hard to remember and to find similar situations now 2 or 3 generations later. With my mother I had the chance to visit in 2000 all previous known places in today's Lithuania, think something also in 2022 counts especially with current threats there. Vera is my idol from that generation, something my mother could never forward to the next generations in some way, also she liked to dance in the 40's until forbidden, etc.. Vera now my hero to remember from a different perspectice, unfortunately the war diary extends until today in Ukraine with our family. Thanks for reading this!
She'll remain the nations sweetheart until the end. May she rest in peace, and her pitch perfect singing be eternal in the hearts of our soldiers and sailors abroad.
Eyewatering to see the path this amazing nation has taken. Such a strong identity full of pride and prosperity, only to be wiped out by excessive political correctness and being a minority in 2060. I seriously cried when I came back from London, it was a total shock for me. Feeling a bit melancholic when hearing this music. What in gods name has become of the West? Greetings from an adoring neighbour from the Netherlands.
@@westwoods7675 Yes. And? Pride in one's strength is what builds great Empires. Once the corrosive spirit of doubters and shamers starts to hold sway, things begin to rot. Let's rediscover our warrior spirits and rebuild the glories of the past.
@@awesomemarcbolan It is about patriotism and pride to belong to one nation even in difficult moments...I think the way this fascinating lady sings this patriotic song is out of the world, and although the lyrics are helplessly refering to past glory, you can transcend the meaning if you sing it with the same spirit than in this insuperable rendition.
When Germany fell under the devil's spell; when Russia was in cahoots; when France surrendered without so much as a whimper; when courageous but powerless European states were crushed under the jackboot; when the US looked away; alone stood the British Empire, defiant, in its last moments before being consigned to history. We all love laughing at England now (me especially), but it sends shivers down my spine how their empire came to end.
I am half English, half German. I live in Holland, precisely between England and Germany. All three countries are losing their identity; all three Germanic lands, age-old bastions of Western European culture, are being islamised, arabised and africanised. It makes me very sad. I pray every day that the English, Dutch and Germans - indeed all of western Europe - will rise up against the corrupt traitors who have sold us out and agreed to kill off our once-glorious race.
Germany was our natural ally well Holy Roman Empire/German Confederacy and our French Alliance of Convenience caused UK's most damage. Any Germans fans, I am ready to speak further.
Kinda makes me wonder, how Harry would feel watching this now. After letting Meghan talk him into walking away from all this...Spine-tingling performance. Almost makes me regret July 4, 1776,, :-)
Poor uneducated boy If you don’t regret the day you doomed your nation and started committing genocide against your own people you need serious psychiatric help
always moves me to tears...she was such an inspiration...all those years of suffering and yet OUR gal...could lift us up. I smile at the times when we Brits call someone out gal or our lad..those are words meant with great affection and very spirtual thing. Born of us, a legend she became. Who can forget...never forget.
I really like this song (not British here), I love the song "The White Cliffs of Dover" by Vera Lynn, my aging father who is from the WWII error as a child period turned me on to these recently, songs that actually say something, amazing ...... thanks for sharing! God Bless
Vera Lynn was a great singer she brought our boys back home in the first and second world wars. As we go into a new decade it looks like we’re on the edge of war with Russia we could do with another voice like Vera Lynn to get us home and safe in Bing circle goodbye Vera Lynn R I P🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧⚓️
An absolutely brilliant rendition of this wonderful song. Nobody but nobody will ever sing it like Dame Vera Lynn did. This more than any other, will always be the song she is remembered for.
It was a idea of the Dutch showmaster Willem Duys and is recorded in the Netherlands with the dutch Maastreechter staar choir. After that it became a worldwide hit.
Amazing Singer..When I hear this song and others she sings It makes me think of my late Mum and Dad.Both in WW2 both young and doing their duty..They never shied away from the Call...Like so many back then they Rose to the challenge..I wonder howmany now of the WOKE crowd would do that..What would their Inspirational song be..something from Cardi B ;)
Thank you posting this great lady. Some of the so-called sreaming so-called stars of today should listen to her perfect diction and learn how to sing.. This should be our national anthem.
