Green Fields Of France chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE ? (No Man's Land) -- ERIC BOGLE


VERSE 1
 D MajorD        B minorBm    G+G    E minorEm
Well, how do you do young Willie McBride,
    A augmentedA            D MajorD       A augmentedA
Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave-side,
  D MajorD     B minorBm        G+G      E minorEm
And rest for a while ?neath the warm summer sun,
     A augmentedA          G+G     D MajorD
I?ve been walking all day and I?m nearly done.)
 D MajorD      B minorBm         G+G     E minorEm
I see by your gravestone you were only nine-teen
     A augmentedA             D MajorD  A augmentedA
When you joined the great fallen in 19 ? 16
 D MajorD       B minorBm     G+G       E minorEm
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
     A augmentedA           G+G      D MajorD
Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?

CHORUS:
D MajorD    A augmentedA               G+G       D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D MajorD    A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o?er you as they lowered you down,
    G+G              A augmentedA
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
    D MajorD        G+G       A augmentedA D MajorD
Did the pipes play the ?Flowers of the Forest??

VERSE 2:
D MajorD          B minorBm    G+G      E minorEm
Did you leave e?re a wife or a sweetheart behind,
  A augmentedA              D MajorD    A augmentedA
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
 D MajorD        B minorBm        G+G E minorEm
Although you died back in nineteen sixteen
  A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen.
  D MajorD     B minorBm        G+G   E minorEm
Or are you a stranger without even a name
 A augmentedA        D MajorD      A augmentedA
Enclosed forever behind a glass frame,
   D MajorD    B minorBm       G+G      E minorEm
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained
  A augmentedA          G+G       D MajorD
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

CHORUS:
D MajorD    A augmentedA               G+G       D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D MajorD    A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o?er you as they lowered you down,
    G+G              A augmentedA
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
    D MajorD        G+G       A augmentedA D MajorD
Did the pipes play the ?Flowers of the Forest??

VERSE 3:
  D MajorD     B minorBm      G+G        E minorEm
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
     A augmentedA              D MajorD      A augmentedA
There?s a warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance,
  D MajorD      B minorBm       G+G     E minorEm
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds,
      A augmentedA           G+G      D MajorD
There?s no gas no barbed wire no guns firing now,
  D MajorD      B minorBm       G+G       E minorEm
But here in this graveyard it?s still no man?s land
  A augmentedA             D MajorD      A augmentedA
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
  D MajorD        B minorBm       G+G   E minorEm
To man?s blind indifference to his fellow man
   A augmentedA             G+G       D MajorD
To a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

CHORUS:
D MajorD    A augmentedA               G+G       D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D MajorD    A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o?er you as they lowered you down,
    G+G              A augmentedA
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
    D MajorD        G+G       A augmentedA D MajorD
Did the pipes play the ?Flowers of the Forest??

VERSE 4:
     D MajorD    B minorBm      G+G      E minorEm
Ah young Willie McBride I can?t help wonder why,
  A augmentedA              D MajorD      A augmentedA
Do all those who lie here know why they did die
  D MajorD     B minorBm       G+G      E minorEm
And did they believe when they answered the call,
     A augmentedA            G+G       D MajorD
Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
     D MajorD      B minorBm       G+G     E minorEm
Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
  A augmentedA           D MajorD      A augmentedA
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
     D MajorD    B minorBm       G+G     E minorEm
For young Willie McBride it?s all happened again,
  A augmentedA          G+G     D MajorD
And again and again and again and again.

CHORUS:
D MajorD    A augmentedA               G+G       D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D MajorD    A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o?er you as they lowered you down,
    G+G              A augmentedA
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
    D MajorD        G+G       A augmentedA D MajorD
Did the pipes play the ?Flowers of the Forest??