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Eric Bogle – No Man's Land (Aka Green Fields Of France)
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Scotland’s greatest living Australian. Or the other way around, depending on how you look at it.
Born in Peebles, Scotland, and emigrating to Australia in 1969, he currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia. Written in 1972,
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is perhaps his best-known song, being a haunting evocation of the ANZAC experience fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.
Bogle’s songs cover a wide range of subjects, including bright comic songs, satires, protest songs and other serious considerations of the human condition. Some idea of the breadth of his work can be gained from the differing subject matter, ranging from The Aussie Bar-B-Q to an homage to Stan Rogers, entitled
Safe In The Harbour. One of his most popular songs,
Katie and the Dreamtime Land, is a tribute to American folksinger Kate Wolf, following her untimely death from leukemia in 1986.
In a similar vein to
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, his song,
No Man’s Land, refers to the old Scottish song, “Flowers of the Forest” being played over the grave of a World War I soldier. (Bogle has been known to call the song
The Green Fields of France, a title it was first given by The Fureys and subsequently used by The Men They Couldn’t Hang.) In 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented a Belfast girl who wrote to him about the Troubles with a framed copy of the lyrics to
The Green Fields of France”, calling it his favourite anti-war poem.
Born in Peebles, Scotland, and emigrating to Australia in 1969, he currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia. Written in 1972,
Bogle’s songs cover a wide range of subjects, including bright comic songs, satires, protest songs and other serious considerations of the human condition. Some idea of the breadth of his work can be gained from the differing subject matter, ranging from The Aussie Bar-B-Q to an homage to Stan Rogers, entitled
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