No Mans Land Flowers Of The Forest chords by June Tabor

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice


Verse:
      D MajorD                      G+G         E minorEm
Well, how do you do, Private William McBride
      A augmentedA                       G+G            A augmentedA
D'you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
    D MajorD                      G+G           E minorEm
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
          A augmentedA                    G+G          D MajorD
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
                                      E minorEm       G+G
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
         A augmentedA                   G+G         D MajorD           A augmentedA
When you joined the glorious fallen in Nineteen Sixteen
        D MajorD                         E minorEm
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
    A augmentedA                       G+G          D MajorD
Or, William McBride, was it slow and obscene?


Chorus:
         A augmentedA                              G+G               D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
        E minorEm                            A augmentedA            D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o'er thee as they lowered thee down?
        G+G                              A augmentedA
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
        G+G               E minorEm             A augmentedA  D MajorD
Did the pipes play the 'Flowers of the Forest'?


Verse:
                             G+G            E minorEm
And did thee leave wife or a sweetheart behind
   A augmentedA                         G+G        A augmentedA
In some loyal heart, is your memory enshrined?
D MajorD                            G+G           E minorEm
And, though you died back in Nineteen Sixteen
   A augmentedA                            G+G          D MajorD
To that faithful heart, are you always nineteen?
                                   E minorEm     G+G
Or are you just a stranger without even a name
   A augmentedA      G+G        D MajorD               A augmentedA
Forever enclosed behind some glass pane
      D MajorD                        E minorEm
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained
    A augmentedA                     G+G             D MajorD
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

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Chorus:
         A augmentedA                              G+G               D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
        E minorEm                            A augmentedA            D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o'er thee as they lowered thee down?
        G+G                              A augmentedA
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
        G+G               E minorEm             A augmentedA  D MajorD
Did the pipes play the 'Flowers of the Forest'?


Verse:
                                 G+G               E minorEm
The sun is shining down on these green fields of France
    A augmentedA                              G+G           A augmentedA
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
    D MajorD                          G+G         E minorEm
The trenches have vanished now under the plough
   A augmentedA                          G+G           D MajorD
No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
                                E minorEm             G+G
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
        A augmentedA                           G+G            A augmentedA
And the countless white crosses, in mute witness stand
   D MajorD                           E minorEm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
      A augmentedA                         G+G             D MajorD
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned


Chorus:
         A augmentedA                              G+G               D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
        E minorEm                            A augmentedA            D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o'er thee as they lowered thee down?
        G+G                              A augmentedA
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
        G+G               E minorEm             A augmentedA  D MajorD
Did the pipes play the 'Flowers of the Forest'?


Verse:
                                 G+G        E minorEm
And I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride
   A augmentedA                      G+G             A augmentedA
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
        D MajorD                             G+G             E minorEm
Did you really believe them when they told you 'The Cause'?
        A augmentedA                        G+G             D MajorD
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
                                     E minorEm         G+G
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
    A augmentedA            G+G             D MajorD           A augmentedA
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
    D MajorD                      E minorEm
For Willie McBride, it all happened again
     A augmentedA                     G+G          D MajorD
And again, and again, and again, and again


Chorus:
         A augmentedA                              G+G               D MajorD
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
        E minorEm                            A augmentedA            D MajorD
Did the rifles fire o'er thee as they lowered thee down?
        G+G                              A augmentedA
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
        G+G               E minorEm             A augmentedA  D MajorD
Did the pipes play the 'Flowers of the Forest'?


Outro:
N.C.
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
N.C.
Did the pipes play the 'Flowers of the Forest'?