Garth Brooks had to compose himself in the middle of his CBS holiday special on Sunday night. On “Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event”, the country superstar teared up while performing his Christmas classic “Belleau Wood”, a track he co-wrote in the ’90s about Christmas during the First World War.
Brooks and his wife performed a wide variety of holiday songs requested from fans online, but when someone insisted he play “Belleau Wood”, Yearwood told her husband, “Good luck, buddy.
This one makes me cry and I never cry.” The emotional ballad tells the story of the 1914 Christmas ceasefires among British, French, and German soldiers, which details both the tragedy of war and the triumph of the human spirit.
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