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"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, the "Last Post" and the "Flowers of the Forest".
Over the next several years, Paddy and Tom brought in some new material too. "The Green Fields of France", also known as "Willie McBride", by Eric Bogle had become a hit with a recording by the Clancys' old back-up musicians, the Furey Brothers, in the early 1980s. Soon numerous Irish groups were singing it, including the Clancy Brothers and ...
Eric Bogle was born on 23 September 1944 in Peebles, Scotland.His father was a railway signalman who played the bagpipes. [1] [2] Bogle started writing poetry when he was eight years old. [2]
William James McBride, CBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times; a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps.
Willie and Korie welcomed their son, John Luke Robertson, on Oct. 11, 1995. John Luke was 16 years old when Duck Dynasty started airing on A&E in 2012.. A few years later, on his 19th birthday, he ...
Brandon Bell/Getty Images Willie Nelson’s second wife, Shirley Collie, didn’t know he was having an affair with Connie Koepke until she found a startling piece of mail. In the four-episode ...
In the new four-part docuseries, Willie, 90, goes into detail while describing the exact moment when his second wife, Shirley Collie, found out he had been having an affair by finding a shocking ...
William McBride (doctor) (1927–2018), Australian physician; Will McBride (photographer) (1931–2015), American photographer based in Germany; Bill McBride (politician) (1945–2012), 2002 candidate for Florida governor; William V. McBride (1922–2022), general in the United States Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force