When they come a wull staun ma groon Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun Lay me doon in the caul caul groon Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun Upon his return to the front, he and his men were engaged in fixed bayonet combat.
This picture hung in his home above the fireplace. His last picture, with him in uniform, was taken on the steps of the hospital. He replied, "what a waste of a fine body of men". While recuperating in the hospital, he was asked what it was like to kill "the hun" (as the Germans were called then). MacKenzie refused, stating that he had to go back to his men. The military sent him home to Scotland for treatment, where the surgeon wanted to amputate his arm. Charles Stuart MacKenzie went to fight in France during World War I and was shot in the shoulder. The lament was introduced into the film during key scenes with MacKenzie singing on his own and on the last track of the film with the orchestra and choir. MacKenzie" with the backing of an 80-piece orchestra and the Unites States Military Academy Choir at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. He arranged for Joe and band mate Donnie MacNeil, who played the pipes, to re-record "Sgt. While working on the film We Were Soldiers, director Randall Wallace, who also won an Oscar for his screenplay of Braveheart, received a CD of the album and was haunted by the emotion and spirit of reverence captured in "Sgt. The track was then included in his band Clann An Drumma's album "Tried and True". Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine. Sergeant MacKenzie was bayoneted to death at the age of 35, while defending one of his badly injured fellow soldiers in the hand-to-hand fighting of the trenches. Joseph MacKenzie wrote the song in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin- Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War. MacKenzie" is a lament written and sung by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie.
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