Green Fields Of France Live chords by The High Kings

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Performance: live

Intro:

E C#m A B (x2)

Verse 1:
E               C#m       A       B
Well how do you do, young Willy McBride?
B                              A            E
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
    E          C#m              A           B
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
          B                A              E
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
  E           C#m                 A        F#m
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
         B                B         A           B
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
  E             C#m
I hope you died well
      A             F#m
And I hope you died clean
         B                        A             E
Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?

Chorus:
         B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A             E
Did they play the fife lowly?
         B                             A           B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
        A                          E     C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        E              A              B    E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?


Verse 2:
E               C#m       A          B
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
B                              A      E
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
  E          C#m          A           B
Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen
   B                            A           E
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?
   E         C#m              A      F#m
Or are you a stranger without even a name
  B                     A            B
Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane
      E        C#m
In an old photograph
      A             F#m
torn, battered, and stained
    B                    A             E
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?

Chorus:
         B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A             E
Did they play the fife lowly?
         B                             A           B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
        A                          E     C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        E              A              B    E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?


Verse 3:
    E       C#m             A               B
The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France
           B                                A           E
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
    E            C#m             A         B
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
           B                               A           E
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
    E            C#m            A              F#m
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
     B              B             A           B
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
   E             C#m           A          F#m
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
     B                          A             E
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned


Chorus:
         B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A             E
Did they play the fife lowly?
         B                             A           B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
        A                          E     C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        E              A              B    E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?


Verse 4:
          E       C#m            A                  B
Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why?
   B                         A            E
Do those that lie here know? Why did they die?
    E          C#m             A            B
And did they believe when they answered the call?
         B                        A             E
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
        E           C#m            A          F#m
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
    B           B         A           B
The killing and dying was all done in vain
          E       C#m          A         F#m
For young Willy McBride it all happened again
    B          B           A          E
And again, and again, and again, and again

Chorus:
         B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A             E
Did they play the fife lowly?
         B                             A           B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
        A                          E     C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        E              A              B    E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?


Chorus:
         B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A             E
Did they play the fife lowly?
         B                             A           B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
        A                          E     C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        E              A              B    E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?