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Verse 1: Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Well how do you do, young Willie McBride? Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done. Eb Fm I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen Fm Ab/Eb Bb/F When you joined the great fallen in 1916 Eb Fm I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Fm Ab/Eb Eb Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Chorus 1: Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Bb/F Ab/Eb Bb/F Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Ab/Eb Eb Cm/Eb Did the band play the Last Post and chorus? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Eb Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Verse 2: Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F And though you died back in 1916 Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen? Eb Fm Or are you a stranger without even a name? Fm Ab/Eb Bb/F Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane Eb Fm In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained Fm Ab/Eb Eb And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame. Chorus 2: Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Bb/F Ab/Eb Bb/F Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Ab/Eb Eb Cm/Eb Did the band play the Last Post and chorus? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Eb Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Verse 3: Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F The sun shinning down on these green fields of France Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F The trenches have vanished long under the plow Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now. Eb Fm But here in this graveyard That's still "No Man's Land" Fm Ab/Eb Bb/F The countless white crosses in mute with the sand Eb Fm To man's blind indifference to his fellow man Fm Ab/Eb Eb And a whole generation were butchered and damned. Chorus 3: Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Bb/F Ab/Eb Bb/F Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Ab/Eb Eb Cm/Eb Did the band play the Last Post and chorus? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Eb Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Verse 4: Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F And I can't help but wonder no Willie McBride Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Do all those that lie here know why did they die? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F And did you really believe them when they told you the cuase? Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Eb Fm Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame Fm Ab/Eb Bb/F The killing and dying were all done in vain Eb Fm For Willie McBride it all happened again Fm Ab/Eb Eb And again, and again, and again, and again. Chorus 4: Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Bb/F Ab/Eb Bb/F Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Ab/Eb Eb Cm/Eb Did the band play the Last Post and chorus? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Eb Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Bb/F Ab/Eb Eb Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Bb/F Ab/Eb Bb/F Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Ab/Eb Eb Cm/Eb Did the band play the Last Post and chorus? Eb Ab/Eb Bb/F Eb Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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