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
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G+G
D MajorD Or, William McBride, was it slow and obscene? Chorus:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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G+G
D MajorD And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
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
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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
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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
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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
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G+G
D MajorD And a whole generation who were butchered and damned Chorus:
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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
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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'?
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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'?
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'No Mans Land Flowers Of The Forest' by June Tabor, a female folk artist from Warwick, GB. June Tabor was born in 1947.