The Green Fields Of France chords by Dropkick Murphys

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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




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          I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
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          When you joined the great fallen in 1916
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          I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
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          Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Chorus 1:
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          Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
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          Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
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          Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
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          Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 2:
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          And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
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          In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
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          And though you died back in 1916
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          To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen?
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          Or are you a stranger without even a name?
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          Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
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          In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained
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          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?
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          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:
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          The sun shinning down on these green fields of France
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          The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
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          The trenches have vanished long under the plow
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          No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
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          But here in this graveyard That's still "No Man's Land"
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          The countless white crosses in mute with the sand
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          To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
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          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:
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          And I can't help but wonder no Willie McBride
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          Do all those that lie here know why did they die?
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          And did you really believe them when they told you the cuase?
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          Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
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          Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
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          The killing and dying were all done in vain
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          For Willie McBride it all happened again
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          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?