The Green Fields Of France chords by Dropkick Murphys

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
     Eb MajorEb            Ab/Eb    Bb/FBb/F
     Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
     Bb/FBb/F              Ab/Eb   Eb MajorEb
     Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
     Eb MajorEb               Ab/Eb    Bb/FBb/F
     And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
Bb/FBb/F             Ab/Eb    Eb MajorEb
     I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.



     Eb MajorEb                F minorFm
     I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
F minorFm                 Ab/Eb Bb/FBb/F
     When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Eb MajorEb           F minorFm
     I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
F minorFm            Ab/Eb   Eb MajorEb
     Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Chorus 1:
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
          Bb/FBb/F              Ab/Eb    Bb/FBb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb MajorEb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb MajorEb   Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F      Eb MajorEb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 2:
     Eb MajorEb              Ab/Eb   Bb/FBb/F
     And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
     Bb/FBb/F            Ab/Eb  Eb MajorEb
     In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
       Eb MajorEb           Ab/Eb  Bb/FBb/F
     And though you died back in 1916
Bb/FBb/F             Ab/Eb  Eb MajorEb
     To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen?
     Eb MajorEb              F minorFm
     Or are you a stranger without even a name?
      F minorFm           Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F
     Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
Eb MajorEb              F minorFm
     In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained
F minorFm               Ab/Eb  Eb MajorEb
     And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

Chorus 2:
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
          Bb/FBb/F              Ab/Eb    Bb/FBb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb MajorEb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb MajorEb   Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F      Eb MajorEb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 3:
     Eb MajorEb               Ab/Eb      Bb/FBb/F
     The sun shinning down on these green fields of France
Bb/FBb/F                Ab/Eb    Eb MajorEb
     The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
Eb MajorEb               Ab/Eb   Bb/FBb/F
     The trenches have vanished long under the plow
     Bb/FBb/F            Ab/Eb    Eb MajorEb
     No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
       Eb MajorEb              F minorFm
     But here in this graveyard That's still "No Man's Land"
F minorFm             Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F
     The countless white crosses in mute with the sand
Eb MajorEb               F minorFm
     To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
F minorFm           Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     And a whole generation were butchered and damned.

Chorus 3:
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb MajorEb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb MajorEb   Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F      Eb MajorEb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 4:
       Eb MajorEb             Ab/Eb Bb/FBb/F
     And I can't help but wonder no Willie McBride
Bb/FBb/F          Ab/Eb       Eb MajorEb
     Do all those that lie here know why did they die?
       Eb MajorEb                  Ab/Eb    Bb/FBb/F
     And did you really believe them when they told you the cuase?
        Bb/FBb/F            Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
          Eb MajorEb             F minorFm
     Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
F minorFm             Ab/Eb  Bb/FBb/F
     The killing and dying were all done in vain
Eb MajorEb           F minorFm
     For Willie McBride it all happened again
F minorFm            Ab/Eb    Eb MajorEb
     And again, and again, and again, and again.

Chorus 4:
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb MajorEb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb MajorEb   Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F      Eb MajorEb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb MajorEb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/FBb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb MajorEb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb MajorEb   Ab/Eb     Bb/FBb/F      Eb MajorEb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

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