Chords for Caoimhe Mooney - Green Fields of France

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_ How do [Dm] you do [Bb] young Willie [C] _ MacBride?
Do you mind if I sit here [Bb] down by your [F] _
graveside?
And rest for [Dm] a while, [Bb] neat the warm summer [C] sun? _
I've been walking all day [Gm] and I'm nearly [F] _
done.
I _ sit by [Dm] your gravestone, you [Bb] were only [Gm] nineteen,
When [C] you joined the Great Fallen [Bb] in _ [C] 1916. _ _ _ _
[F] Well I hope you [Dm] died well, _ [Bb] I hope [Gm] you died clean,
Young [C] Willie Mac, _ [Gm] was it [Bb] snow and [F] obscene?
Did [C] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [Bb] they play the fire?
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Did they [C] sound the death march [Bb] as they lured you [C] down?
_ _ _ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus?
_ [Dm] _ Did [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers [C] of the _ [F] forest? _ _ _ _
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Did you leave there [Dm] a wife [Bb] or a sweetheart [C] behind? _
In some faithful heart is [Bb] your memory _ [F] enshrined,
And though [Dm] you died back [Bb] in _ [Fm] 1960,
[C] _
In that faithful heart are you [Bb] forever _ [F] nineteen? _
_ _ _ Or are you a [Dm] stranger with that [Bb] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] forever _ enshrined
[Bb] behind some glass [C] _ chain? _
In [F] an old [Dm] photograph, _ [Bb] corn battered [Gm] and stained,
[C] And faded to yellow in [Bb] a brown leather [F] frame.
Did [C] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [Bb] they play the fire [F] slowly?
Did [C] they sound the death march as [Bb] they lured you [C] _
down?
_ _ [Bb] Did the band play the last post [F] and chorus?
_ [Dm] _ Did [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the _ [F] forest? _ _ _ _
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Sun now [Dm] shines on [Bb] the green fields of [C] earth,
And there's a warm summer's breeze
That makes [Bb] the red [F] poppies dance.
And look [Dm] how the sun shines [Bb] from under the [C] earth.
There's no gas, no barbed wire,
There's [Bb] no guns firing [F] now.
_ _ _ But here in this [Dm] graveyard, _ [Bb] there's still no man,
[Gm] _ _ [C] To count with what else is, [Bb] stand mutinous,
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To [F] a man's [Dm] blindness, _ to [Bb] his fellow [Gm] man,
To [C] a whole generation that [Bb] were butchered [F] and damned.
Did [C] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [Bb] they play the fire [F] slowly?
Did [C] they sound the death march as [Bb] they lured you [C] down? _
_ _ Did [Bb] the band play the last post [F] and chorus?
_ [Dm] _ Did [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the _ [F] forest?
Did they [C] beat the drums slowly?
Did they [Bb] play the fire [F] slowly?
Did they [C] sound the death march as [Bb] they lured you [C] _ down? _
Did [Bb] the band play the last post [F] and chorus?
_ [Dm] _
Did [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the _ [Bb] forest? _
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