Luke Kelly - Peat Bog Soldiers download song

I live about 10 miles away from the place where the conzentration camp "Börgermoor" was and Luke Kelly lived about 1.000 Miles away from this place. But anyway, he sings this song with so much passion, it is pretty touching. As if he would have been one of those peat-bog soldiers back then. Great job!

This makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

not sure i thought it looked like the GPO.

Thank you Luke for remembrance!The concentration camps of the poor moor soldiers in the “Emsland“ Lower Saxony Germany -not very far from my hometown-we must not forget them!

great upload. great to see there's still acknowledgement of the old greats. shame its being lost among most today

"Peat Bog Soldiers" (German: Die Moorsoldaten) is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages and became a Republican anthem during the Spanish Civil War. It was a symbol of resistance during the Second World War and is popular with the Peace movement today. What makes it perhaps so poignant is the knowledge that it was written, composed and first performed in a Nazi concentration camp by the prisoners themselves.

It´s important to remember such songs in dark times like this.

One of The Finest. Luke does a very good Job on this song.(of course) Thanks you for uploading kelly

Damn good song, I first heard it as "chant des marias" while I was in the French foreign legion. The choir does it beautifully. It's nice to FULLY understand it in my native language though haha. But very powerful, they say even the SS gaurs were touched by the lyrics

thank you for uploading this version! i just listened to 5 or 6 differenten versions in german/english and finally found my favourite one :) thumbs up!

this song names in german is "moorsoldaten" who have interest it ;) p.s. i would die for u luke :)

Luke Kelly . He was true hero.

My Pleasure !!!

Luke Kelly, one of the main reasons to be a socialist

This song always touches me very deeply, because my grandfather was one of those "Moorsoldaten", Hitlers political prisoners in the Bögermoor concentration camp. He gave his health so that I (and we) may live in liberty, and he died when he was just my age now. The song was secretly composed and smuggled out of the camp. The English translation here is excellent, and the interpretation by Luke Kelly is simply perfect. Thank you for sharing this song!

For all the newcomers to this song reading this, you've got great taste in music and have come across a great song sung by Ireland's greatest singer

Even though this is a translation (the original is German "Moor Soldaten") this is in my opinion still one of the best renditions of this song about life in a Nazi Labour Camp.