Two quite different versions of the same song, the artists both with overtly political but totally divergent orientations, yet both deploring the pointless and fratricidal Great War — both are covers of the original by Eric Fogle —
[video=youtube_share;FsVuoUtbIxg]http://youtu.be/FsVuoUtbIxg[/video]
(She is not a tremendous vocal talent and rather sentimental one in her stylings but she puts her all into this and I find her vocals tremendously affective here…while originated written and performed by a man but something about the imagery of a woman at the graveside is more affecting too.)
[video=youtube_share;Kqba0IUdiBk]http://youtu.be/Kqba0IUdiBk[/video]
(Also instrumentally and vocally full of emotion, with slightly different and more complete lyrics. The greater instrumental range works well too and even incorporates the contemporary soft loud soft dynamic to good effect. The very important and lyrically gorgeous last verse was omitted from the above version for fairly clear political reasons but let's not go there ITT.)