Capo
1
Difficulty
Intermediate 💪
Rate for accuracy
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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?
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Green Fields Of France Live Chords Info
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Capo: 1
Difficulty: Intermediate 💪
Chords: E, C#m, A, B, F#m