The Green Fields Of France Ukulele chords by Dropkick Murphys

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)


Intro:
D G A D (all chords are three long)

          D              Bm       G      A
          Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
                 A         A            G           A
          Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
                         Bm           G          A
          And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
                    A                 G          D
          I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
          D             Bm                  Em
          I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
                   A                        G A
          When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
               D              Bm           Em
          Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
             A                   G        D
          Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.

Chorus:

                   A
          Did they beat the drum slowly,
                    G            D
          Did they play the fife lowly,
                   A                            G          A
          Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
                  G                           D Bm
          Did the band play the last post and chorus,
                  D              G             A  D
          Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.



Verse 2:
          D                   Bm          G          A
          And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,

          A              A            G       A
          In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,

          D              Bm           G A
          And though you died back in 1916,

          A             A              G       D
          To that loyal heart  you're forever 19.

               D           D            Bm      Em
          Or are you a stranger without even a name,

          A          A                   G          A
          Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,

          D                 D             Bm         Em
          In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,

          A                A         G             D
          And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.


Chorus:

                   A
          Did they beat the drum slowly,
                    G            D
          Did they play the fife lowly,
                   A                            G          A
          Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
                  G                           D Bm
          Did the band play the last post and chorus,
                  D              G             A  D
          Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.


Verse 3:
          D                  Bm             G             A
          The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,

           A                     A            G           A
          The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,

          D                   Bm           G         A
          The trenches have vanished long under the plow
          A            A              G           D
          No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
          D                  Bm            Em
          But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
          A                    A          G            A
          The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
          D                 Bm                   Em
          To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
          A                 A                   G          D
          And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.


Chorus:
                   A
          Did they beat the drum slowly,
                    G            D
          Did they play the fife lowly,
                   A                            G          A
          Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
                  G                           D Bm
          Did the band play the last post and chorus,
                  D              G             A  D
          Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.


Verse 4:
          D                      Bm        G          A
          And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
          A                 A         G           A
          Do all those who lie here know why they die,
          D                Bm                     G            D
          Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
          A                 A                 G           A
          Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
          D                          Bm         Em
          Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
          A                    A          G            A
          The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
          D                          Bm       Em
          Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
          A                 A                   G          D
          And again, and again, and again, and again.

Chorus:
                   A
          Did they beat the drum slowly,
                    G            D
          Did they play the fife lowly,
                   A                            G          A
          Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
                  G                           D Bm
          Did the band play the last post and chorus,
                  D              G             A  D
          Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.