Does anyone know where i can hear a recording of
Stevie 'One Man and his Mandolin' Simpson's song
'Lest We Forget'?
I've hear he wrote it abart a biker during WW2... and i would live to hear it.
Stevie plays at lots of rallies..and Rick Hulse sez hes heard it on Stevie's 'Blog Site' ?!?!
But ive tried googlin it .. and youtubing it ...but cant find owt?
Any ideas??
Found one on youtube.. ( mi eyes musta been painted on b4..dohhh) but it cuts out b4 its finished...still good tho
www . youtube.com/watch?v=8eZAng_4cio&feature=related
I found this tho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KhYrch5vaI
(that lad is gorgeous (I feel like a dirty old woman lol) and what a voice)
I love Stevie's voice and Jake did a good job of the song too
Sorry off topic *slap* meself
It's a song inspired by the death of Sergeant Michael Willetts GC (RIP)... It's available on You Tube as a song, but as usual, filled with ignorant sectarian comments, so I'm disinclined to link it.
It stands just as well as a poem and always brings a tear to my eye when I think of those lost over the years.
And of course, for Remembrance Sunday - the 4th verse from For The Fallen:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
That brought a reet lump to my throat Lou,
My ex-hubs was a squaddie, and i remember, when we were courting, begging him to come home from Germany in his uniform..cos i was so proud of him.. met him at St Pancreas station, and he was feeling sick to the pit of his stomach..
He had got a lift over wiv his mates..but while he was waiting for me, he was getting very hostile looks.
He was only 18 and NI was in full swing, i couldn't beleive how much our sqauddies were hated...
Thankfully he never did a tour of Ireland ..but his best mate did... got killed before he could be our Best Man
RIP Wally
So Rememberance Sunday always brings a tear ...
AJ....that youtube is brilliant! the look on that lads face is priceless...nice one!!
I tried breakin the link to that youtube, cos i thort u wernt ment to post links?! lol i dunno..try googling 'Mandolin Stevie' and u will find a tube called 'Lest We Forget' am still tryin to find the full version tho.
H i Wannabe
I remember that from when I was a kid in Belfest
I served for a few years in the army and remember the hatrid and resentment of the people we were ment to be protecting.
Save for Rememberance day we were never made feel welcome in either UK or Germany.
The only place where we were made to feel welcome was in the USA were they couldn't do more to make us feel welcome and appreciated
I joined up as there was no work at the time in NI see the world so they said.
Making up for it now.
One day we may work out how to stop fighting but dont think it will be in my lifetime.
Until that time we should support the men and women who protect us
aye... dont start me off .....
Boot camps..
conscription
get them to sit through heart wrenching tales from service men and women..
and get their parents outta the pubs and make them do the same...
anyways... wrong thread.. has anyone found Stevie and his mandolin yet?? lol
Funny thing is, it's the First World War that gets to me more than the second. Maybe it's cos my dad was nearly 50 when I was born (an only child who must have come as a shock to him in middle age!), and he in his turn was the baby of his family. So the aunts and uncles all did their bit for king and country in 1914-18, all of them, thankfully, surviving. One uncle was an RSM in Gallipoli, an aunt joined the fledgling RAF and was a driver in France (she had a motorbike for a wedding present - very daring!), another uncle was in the Royal Engineers, and so on. I remember them all with an affectionate tear every November 11. All gone now, alas, apart from another aunt (my mum's sister) who was telling me yesterday about the scenes in Birmingham on Armistice Day. She's 97 now, with the sharp mind of someone 40 years. younger. But they'll never be forgotten.
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