Levellers - Men-An-Tol Lyrics

The Irish went thru potatoes famine

Really great video thanks.

How did I not know the Levellers did this amazing song set in my homeland? Brilliant.

This song pushed me through real cruel times. One of the best songs of all times

Simply brilliance !!!

Simply brilliance

Wow! My favourite band that brings me back to centre when I'm too high and mighty: They remind me of what is important. A wonderful view of the Giant's Causeway: I miss N.Ireland with all my heart. Home.

Kernow bys vyken.

We need to get YouTube to bring back the carrier pigeon for us to leave comments

STOP THE MONSTERS AND........ BRING THE PEACE BACK.

Thanks for that. Boss tune, forgotten how good they were.

Love both this & Forgotten ground .

my all time fave levs song

I'd write in my own blood if I had to! But you'd all live in fear of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Men an Tol (= holed stone in Cornish) is a prehistoric stone row with a unique annular stone in the centre. It's on the Penwith moors in the extreme SW. There were local superstitions eg passing someone 3 times through the hole in a particular direction would cure rickets. I was there once and found a group of people lying on their backs in a geometric pattern round the stones! Not far away is the ruined engine house of Ding Dong mine, plus a stone circle and Lanyon Quoit. A totally wonderful place.

Yes, there is a lot of neolithic and industrial history in Cornwall.

Thanks for the info. I’ve known this song for decades but never knew what the men an tol was..... thought it was the name of a hill.... I even looked at maps of the south western hills. I suppose I could have just googled it!

" I find myself amazed again, a most pathetic score.." Sad but true.

"man's pathetic score" innit?

Nice one Thanx for sharing

Such a good vid

The stones pictured at 1:43 , my mum and i stumbled upon them on a misty rainy day and it was somehow even more beautiful! Can anyone tell me the name of these stones if they have one?

Bob, Becky and Steve.. I am not sure of their last names.. ;)

Nice one

Standing....stones.

Seriously tho Finn Hawker I don't know if these are completely unique or a part of many other stone designs. Where did you find them?

Possibly their greatest moment. Such a fantastic song; the riff, the concept...just sensational.

Forgotten Ground for me. Same album init

Absolutely :)

You're more than right

Fuck modern civilization..... (He writes on a laptop)

@Aliens do exist Your on my level man. Respect! P.S. Aliens do exist..... DMT Dan ;)

You can't help when you're born :p

Great song...

I have lived before this life...this song conjures memories of my past...serving on board a ship with sails and rigging, fighting a storm with rain and wind on my face. I believe it was Nelson's Navy? A past Life???

I wasnt born to live within 4 walls with a tv... Whos feeling me? Lets knock it off and take to the road 😉

By that time one would have learned to eat off the fat of the land and walk bare foot and withstand the weather, it's called evolution it's what we were all supposed to be doing... not eating shit that strangers give us and filling our bodies up till we hit the ground and roll instead of walk, thanks to people like you none of us have had that chance to do so due to being out voted by extreme consumerism which is a disease that spreads via others depending govt!

I feel what your saying. So sick of the ignorance of this so called advanced society we all take on the chin. Bring the peace back. But first let's burn it down, yeh, down. Cos we're all a bunch of useless eaters right? Wrong. It's time to TAKE THE POWER BACK. Sorry if I sound angry. That'll be the cider!!! Love to all ❤️✌️

+InternalMind you thoughts are my thoughts have just realised after many years ,I could follow you to parliament ya could make a cracking leader even that short paragraph x

@InternalMind Due to who, me? What a grand display of ignorance. I've spent more time on the road then you've been alive pal. Gobshite.

Amen sister! 🙌

Amazing

remember the bean battle Stonehenge polaris' we were there mucka' tridant' see ya

Battle of the Beanfield.
1984?
Yes!! Shocking. Painful. Disgraceful treatment of folk just wanting to be by the stones at solstice! :/

but even worse, the police weren't arrested and barely any compensation was given back for the destruction of peoples homes, my uncle was lucky enough to get away from it before it was too dangerous...

Love this song

i love this.

thanks for making this. one of their best songs.

a wonderfull , video , with , thought / feel , to a great song !

Tuuuune!!!

Are all of these images from cornwall?

Not all.  There are a few of the Giants Causeway, Whitepark Bay and Dunluce Castle on the north antrim coast, Northern Ireland!

Avebury stone circle, Silbury Hill (near Avebury) and Stonehenge are in this video and they are all in Wiltshire.

Took my kids there years ago, played this song whilst we were there. Excellent.

Lisa Hendy my home..

Superb track love the levellers

but is this art?

my dad is obsessed with this!

but is it art?

I heard a cross between ,Dire straits - the mans too strong and Clannad- dunnein sugradh

Why not just leave it alone... so much for the 'spiritually aware'...

The Men-an-Tol monument is now under threat from unwanted activities by Natural "England". Keep an eye on the news.

this song cheers me up when im down i cry listening sometimes outa happy ness

one option is to try going in spring or end of summer, or get a advance train ticket with a bike, to get down those country roads, its a vpopular area in summer.

I have liked the Levellers since uni. Ever since hearing this I wanted to visit the Men-an-Tol.

For me, the levelers represent the need to break free of the burden of town and city life, and be in the countryside, and walk among the forests. 'here amongst the city lights the feelings not so good' interprets to me as being bored of city life. This music really just makes me want to run away somewhere in the great outdoors and enjoy the freedom

BACK IN THE DAY WHEN IT WAS REAL

I will make it my mission to learn this on guitar. Its just the best piece of music even written!

Liam Reed mess around with g and a. Chorus has a b I think

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Cloth-eared c**ts.

0:17 = lol

Just one of the greatest Levs tunes. Up there with my favourite two or three. Massive.

This band is the Pagan gods gift to man!

What is the final image on this video does anyone know?

Love this song such a classic

this song brings out the celt in you :) great tune xxxxxxxxxxx

good effort, good song

Great song, and some awesome pics, cheers

i fuckin love the deep seated message in this song lol. pull the earplugs of conditioning out and hear the earth-song under your feet, hailsa!

Odin's Raven. Are you Manx by any chance?

My girlfriend told me about this song the other day, beautiful, right? Her and the song.

One of my fav Levellers song, and your Vid is just perfect for it..... brill vid. xx

another great track xxx

Love the images of the Giants Causeway... goes really well with this great song
and some standing stones from the Fermanagh Lakelands!!

Love the images of the Giants Causeway... goes really well with this great song
and some standing stones from the Fermanagh Lakelands!!

Superb video and a fitting accompaniment to a great song. Well done!

@NeverSayNeverToAlway a lot of them are from ireland!

What a beautiful country we live in.

nice video. where did u get them pictures from?

nice video matey

@FrankyHaemmer but is this art ?

where about is the the stone with a hole in it ? i remember visiting it from seeing the Eclipse in cornwall but i was only nine at the time

Brilliant. the video imagery so fits the band and the song..

@DarthCoors did the same about 10 years ago

This song gives me goosebumps and the images really add to the mood of the song. Well done :-)

What are the pictures at 1:26 and 1:30?

Got to be one of the best, most powerful songs ever written. A truely epic band that is still to this day the best festival / live band ever, with a hell of a message to give.

the levellers have pretty much summed up how i wana sound with music. so innspiring. hoping to go to bd in 2010. :)

Isn`t nature wonderful?

The Radjel in Pendeen. A true locals pub. Gurnards Head. A bit Posh these days. Miners in Zennor. Nice but can be taken over in the summer.. North inn Pendeen, another local Pub St just has the Star in the square. 5pubs all within 150 yards. But the star is the best. Try the white hart at Ludgvan. My local about 4 miles from Men an tol.

I only live a couple of miles from Men an tol. Really gives me the tingles a song about my home.

goosebumps.

Dont you mean...a spiritual centre.Its not that the spelling is the American adoption , but do Americans actually have an understanding of spirituality in their fibre?...

great video for a great song mate ! 5+

Its a sprirtual thing! not meant to be taken too litrally! Its a song about the spiritual things of britain! We was the center for druidism once! britain! A spiritual center! hahaha! we lost that a LONG time ago!

men-an-tol isn't as big as the pictures make it look. been there, done that, cured the rickets, disapointed that my body is twice the size of it.

Am from West Penwith AND a Levellers lover - but it's interesting to see Stonehenge, Giant's Causeway (and other sundry places in Ireland) featured in a video titled 'Men-An-Tol'!

Always reminds me of summer days in the country

Effing excellent tune.:)

fast becoming my favourite song. amazing.

i always hum this tune when i sleep outside and i dont know why

Excellent track . Classic Levellers.
Runnin like a mad man on the moor ...

This is one of the greatest songs ever written.

same as that want to get on me bike an just dissapear west coast Eire,great song great visuals

Great song and some excellent photos there as well.