Moving

This is a beautiful sung version of the theme for Band of Brothers, a ten-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. The narrative centers on the experiences of E Company ("Easy Company") of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, from Easy's basic training at Toccoa, Georgia, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war.

The lyrics are:

You never lived to see
What you gave to me:
One shining dream of hope and love,
Life and liberty.
With a host of brave unknown soldiers
For your company, you will live forever
Here in our memory.
In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price,
Young men who died for old men's wars
Gone to paradise.
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see we can live together
When all the world is free.
I wish you'd lived to see
All you gave to me:
Your shining dream of hope and love,
Life and liberty.
We are all one great band of brothers,
And one day you'll see - we can live together,
When all the world is free.

The "band of brothers" reference, of course, is from Shakespeare's Henry V:

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.