Green Fields Of France Chords

[Verse 1]
 
G               Em        C      Am
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
       D         D7            C            G
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
               Em               C           Am
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
          D           D7      C          G
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
G             Em                  C         Am
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
         D                C         G D7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
  G             Em         Am
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean,
         D        D7            C        G
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
 
 
[Chorus 1]
 
G        D             D7               C             G
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
         D               D7             C           D
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
        C                           G   Em
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
        G              C              D7   G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
G               Em       C      Am
Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
       D         D7            C            G
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
               Em              C           Am
Although you died back in 1916,
          D           D7      C               G
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
G             Em                  C    Am
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
         D                C         G D7
Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame,
  G             Em         Am
In an old photograph all torn battered and stained,
         D        D7           C        G
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
G        D             D7               C             G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
         D               D7             C           D
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
        C                           G   Em
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
        G              C              D7   G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
G               Em       C      Am
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
            D         D7            C            G
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance,
               Em              C           Am
And look how the sun shines from under a cloud,
          D           D7      C          G
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now.
G             Em                  C    Am
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
         D                C         G D7
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
  G             Em         Am
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
         D        D7           C        G
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
G        D             D7               C             G
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
         D               D7             C           D
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
        C                           G   Em
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
        G              C              D7   G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
G               Em               C           Am
Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why,
    D              D7        C            G
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
               Em              C           Am
And did they believe when they answered the call?
          D           D7          C             G
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
G                      Em              C        Am
Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
         D                C         G D7
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
  G             Em         Am
For young Willie McBride it all happened again,
         D        D7           C        G
And again, and again, and again, and again.
 
 
[Chorus 4]
 
G        D             D7               C             G
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
         D               D7             C           D
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
        C                           G   Em
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
        G              C              D7   G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
 
G        D             D7               C             G
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
         D               D7             C           D
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
        C                           G   Em
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    G              C              D7   G
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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