Green Fields Of France Chords & Lyrics - Misc Your Songs - Mandolin Monday

[INTRO]
[Bm] [A] [E] (x2)

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

[CHORUS]
Did they [Bm]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A]play the fife lowly?
Did the r[E]ifles fire over as they lowered [Bm]you down?
Did the bugles sound out the Last [A]Post in chorus?
Did the [E]pipes play the Flowers of the [Bm]Forest?

[INTERLUDE]
[Bm] [A] [E] [x2]

[VERSE 2]
Did you [Bm]leave here a wife or a [A]sweetheart behind?
In some f[E]aithful heart is your [Bm]memory enshrined?
[Bm]Although you died back in [A]nineteen-sixteen
In that [E]faithful heart, are you f[Bm]orever nineteen?
Or are you a stranger without [A]even a name
Enc[E]losed then forever beh[Bm]ind a glass pane
In an o[Bm]ld photograph torn, b[A]attered, and stained
And [E]faded to yellow in a [Bm]brown leather frame?

[CHORUS]
Did they [Bm]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A]play the fife lowly?
Did the r[E]ifles fire over as they lowered [Bm]you down?
Did the bugles sound out the Last [A]Post in chorus?
Did the [E]pipes play the Flowers of the [Bm]Forest?

[VERSE 3]
The [Bm]sun now shines o'er the [A]green fields of France
There's a w[E]arm summer breeze that makes the [Bm]red poppies dance
And look how the sun shines from [A]under the clouds
There's no [E]gas, no barbed wire, there's no [Bm]gun firing now
But here in this graveyard it's [A]still No Man's Land
The c[E]ountless white crosses stand mute in the [Bm]sand
To man's blind indifference to[A] his fellow man
To a [E]whole generation that were butchered and damned

[CHORUS]
Did they [Bm]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A]play the fife lowly?
Did the r[E]ifles fire over as they lowered [Bm]you down?
Did the bugles sound out the Last [A]Post in chorus?
Did the [E]pipes play the Flowers of the [Bm]Forest?

[VERSE 4]
Now young [Bm]Willy McBride, I can't help [A]wonder, why?
Do [E]those that lie here k[Bm]now why they died?
And [Bm]did they believe when they [A]answered the call?
Did they[E] really believe that this[Bm] war would end wars?
For the [Bm]sorrow, the suffering, the [A]glory, the shame
The [E]killing and dying were [Bm]all done in vain
For young [Bm]Willy McBride it all [A]happened again
And [E]again, and again, and again

[CHORUS]
Did they [Bm]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A]play the fife lowly?
Did the r[E]ifles fire over as they lowered [Bm]you down?
Did the bugles sound out the Last [A]Post in chorus?
Did the [E]pipes play the Flowers of the [Bm]Forest?

[CHORUS]
Did they [Bm]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A]play the fife lowly?
Did the r[E]ifles fire over as they lowered [Bm]you down?
Did the bugles sound out the Last [A]Post in chorus?
Did the [E]pipes play the Flowers of the [Bm]Forest?