Green Fields Of France chords

[INTRO]
[F] [C] [Dm] [C] (x2)

[VERSE 1]
[F]Well how do you do, young [A#]Willy [C]McBride?
[C]Do you mind if I sit here down [A#]by your [C]graveside
And r[F]est for a while 'neath the [A#]warm summer [C]sun
I've been [C]walking all day, [A#]and I'm nearly [F]done
I [F]see by your gravestone you were [C]only nineteen
When you j[C]oined the great [F]fallen in n[A#]ineteen-[C]sixteen
I [F]hope you died well
And I [A#]hope you died clean
Or young Willy McB[C]ride, was is it [A#]slow and [F]obscene?

[CHORUS]
Did they [C]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A#]play the fife [C]lowly?
Did they [C]sound the death march as they [A#]lowered you [C]down?
[A#]Did the band play the Last Post in [F]chorus?
Did the [Dm]pipes play the [A#]Flowers of the [C]Forest[F] ?

[INTERLUDE]
[F] [C] [Dm] [C]

[VERSE 2]
Did you [F]leave here a wife or a s[A#]weetheart [C]behind?
In s[C]ome faithful heart is your [A#]memory ens[F]hrined?
[F]Although you died back in [A#]nineteen-[C]sixteen
In [C]that faithful heart, are you [A#]forever [F]nineteen?
Or [F]are you a stranger without [C]even a name
Enc[C]losed then forever beh[A#]ind a glass [C]pane
In an o[F]ld photograph torn, [A#]battered, and stained
And [C]faded to yellow in a [A#]brown leather [F]frame?

[CHORUS]
Did they [C]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A#]play the fife [C]lowly?
Did they [C]sound the death march as they [A#]lowered you [C]down?
[A#]Did the band play the Last Post in [F]chorus?
Did the [Dm]pipes play the [A#]Flowers of the [C]Forest[F] ?

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

[CHORUS]
Did they [C]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A#]play the fife [C]lowly?
Did they [C]sound the death march as they [A#]lowered you [C]down?
[A#]Did the band play the Last Post in [F]chorus?
Did the [Dm]pipes play the [A#]Flowers of the [C]Forest[F] ?

[VERSE 4]
Now young [F]Willy McBride, I can't [A#]help but wonder, [C]why?
Do [C]those that lie here know [A#]why they d[F]ied?
And [F]did they believe when they [A#]answered the [C]call?
Did they [C]really believe that this [A#]war would end [C]wars?
For the [F]sorrow, the [F]suffering, the [C]glory, the [F]shame
The [C]killing and [F]dying were [A#]all done in [C]vain
For young [F]Willy McBride it all [A#]happened again
And [C]again, and a[C]gain, and [A#]again, and [F]again

[CHORUS]
Did they [C]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A#]play the fife [C]lowly?
Did they [C]sound the death march as they [A#]lowered you [C]down?
[A#]Did the band play the Last Post in [F]chorus?
Did the [Dm]pipes play the [A#]Flowers of the [C]Forest[F] ?

[CHORUS]
Did they [C]beat the drums slowly?
Did they [A#]play the fife [C]lowly?
Did they [C]sound the death march as they [A#]lowered you [C]down?
[A#]Did the band play the Last Post in [F]chorus?
Did the [Dm]pipes play the [A#]Flowers of the [C]Forest[F] ?