The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Good-bye to Shane MacGowan and thanking him for all his music especially this song about the futility of war. Certainly one of the best anti-war songs ever.

What a powerful song.This old wounded warrior was brought to tears. I too, lost limbs in Fallujah, Iraq. I felt the same way afterward, Lord, why didn't you just let me die. The cost of war is very steep, more than most realize. I have come to accept it and live with it, but Lord it's been hard.

An Irish man playing a song of Australia written by a Scotsman bloody perfect

Holy shit. I'm stunned watching this. This is mandatory viewing for all the keyboard commandos who clamor to start yet another war in the Mideast. RIP Shane.

There isnt an aussie or kiwi that doesnt love this rendition performed by the pogues RIP Shane

Beautiful version. I’m Australian and this 10/10. Well done boys!! Champion effort 👍👍👍

IN 2001 I was at Gallipoli a few days before the commemorative ceremonies. The respect of the Turkish people for the Anzac soldiers was overwhelming. They know that this battle was never about honor or glory- on both sides it was a horrific slaughter that no one should be proud of

If only politicians would take notice of songs like this. RIP Mr MacGowan.

Homage to bravery? No way! The song is one of the best anti-war things ever written. He sits on his porch years later, the young people ask what the vets were marching for, and he asks himself the same question. The war they were sent into has been forgotten, along with whatever they did. Nothing was accomplished that lasted, and conflicts and wars go on today in the Middle East, for example, owing to lines making nations by a few people from England and France, ignoring traditional tribal lines. I write this as a veteran of Vietnam, 1967-68. I was out watching Halley's comet south of Dallas in 1986 with my car radio playing on KNON, and when I got home, i called the station to get info about the song, and I've been a Pogues fan ever since, and had a chance later to see them play locally.

My grandad served in Gallipoli Essex Regiment lost all of his friend's and was haunted for rest of his life I'm convinced. I once visited an Aussie pub in Earls Court with an Australian on Anzac Day I was incredible when the song came to be Played everyone jumped up, young and old alike with such emotion and gusto, there was not a dry eye in the place, a truly amazing moment.

A song about Anzacs written by a Scot and sung by an Irishman. It all makes sense.

Eric Bogle an Australian folksinger wrote this amazing song. This is a great version…. I saw Eric play it in a Folk Club in Paisley Scotland back in the 70’s it was increredibly moving.

Waltzing Matilda has been sung by many people, but none makes your heart weep as The Pouges rendition. Thank you Shane. May all the soldiers that suffered and died, rest in peace. Sadly, they visited hell on earth.

Is it possible to watch this without tears? Damn

Six years ago, I was in Perth in Western Australia for Anzac Day. Rather than having it all forgotten it was such a massive parade in honour of the Australians and New Zealanders that landed at Suvla Bay on the 25th of April 1916. Bless them all

Two of my great uncles were at Gallipoli ,one fell into a Turkish trench on a charge and broke his leg and got sent home to NZ and the other carried on to the Europe theatre and also survived to come home, can't begin to comprehend that war.

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee, General Confederate Army.

Rest in peace, Shane MacGowan. I always have tears in my eyes when listening to this song. Mankind will never learn, and nothing changed since WWI and WWII. We are bound for a time of many Gallipolis all over again, just look at the Ukraine. But what can we do, we are forced to keep fighting, or surrender to the likes of Putin and Xi... So we will have crippled and dead heroes all over again, may their sacrifice not be as useless and unnecessesary as the one of the soldiers at Gallipoli...

I first heard this in 1986 sung by The Pogues when I was living in England. It motivated me to go to Gallipoli in 1987. He brought me to tears then, and it still does. Shane has a certain attack and emotion in this song that really resonates. I can't listen to it, still, as it still brings me to tears.

One of my Great Uncles served on the Western Front. He was wounded twice and gassed along with many other Aussies, he returned to Australia only to die from his wounds shortly after. We will remember them, lest we forget.