Celtic Thunder

Miss.SunFlower said:
omigawds!!!!
If you have itunes - GET ON IT! Go to the store and search "Take Me Home" They have new CD on pre-order and you can LISTEN TO PARTS OF THE SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan has a new one that's just- *melt*
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Oh speaking of that, I actually heard part of the "Stalker Song" (not by Ryan obviously ;)) on the radio while we were down in Texas
 
*dances in happy circle*

Heard the full version of one of their Newest songs! So beautiful in a Christmas 1915 kinda way. So depressing but gorgeous

Green Fields of France

Well, how do you do, Young William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

(chorus)
Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipe lowly?
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band sound The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that faithful heart you're forever 19
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

(chorus)

Now Willie McBride, I can't help wonderin' why
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did they really believe when they answered "The Cause?"
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
But the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

(chorus)


There's a verse in there that they skipped, but I don't mind. It's SO gorgeous.
 
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Thank you. I find the middle picture hilarious beyond belief. So dramatic. :rolleyes:

It's such a beautiful song, this is. They have a different harmony here. It's higher.
 
It is a really pretty harmony I could probably listen to it several more times if I didn't have to go now ;)

(are you sure it's not actually fife rather than pipe on that first line of the chorus?)
 
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