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Henry Marten's Ghost (2005), as "Green Fields of France" on the album High on Spirits! Priscilla Herdman (1982), on the album Forgotten Dreams; The High Kings (2010) on the album Memory Lane as "Green Fields of France" and (2016) on the album Grace and Glory; The Houghton Weavers; The Irish Tenors on Ellis Island as "The Green Fields of France"
Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in The New York Times as a "hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad." [1] Of Makem's many compositions, it has become the most familiar, and is part of the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians.
The Green Fields of France" (a title commonly but incorrectly given to Eric Bogle's "No Man's Land") also gave them an Irish No. 1, remaining in the single charts for twenty-eight weeks. They also had two Top 40 British albums called Golden Days and At the End of the Day .
The Irish Rovers pay tribute to ol' Seth Davy, a sad puppeteer who makes dolls dance in an old crate on the corner of Beggars Bush, in this 1968 folk song. 'Lift the Wings' by Bill Whelan
The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008. The band consists of Finbarr Clancy , Brian Dunphy , Darren Holden , and Paul O'Brien. [ 1 ] As of 2023, the group had released five studio albums, four live albums, two live DVDs, and one greatest hits album.
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
This song is commonly known as "The Green Fields of France", a title it was first given by the Fureys and which has subsequently been used in many further cover versions. The song refers to the traditional Scottish song "Flowers of the Forest" being played over the grave of a World War I soldier. Bogle deliberately gave the dead soldier an ...
The Chieftains, on the 1986 album Ballad of the Irish Horse, and by Kevin Conneff on the 1991 live recording An Irish Evening; The Pogues on the 1986 album If I Should Fall From Grace With God; Todd Menton on the album Punts (2003) Patrick Clifford on the album American Wake; The High Kings on the 2020 album Home from Home