Chords for Damh The Bard - The Green Fields of France

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Well, how do [Em] you do, _ [C] young Rilly [Am] McBride? _
[D] Do you mind if I sit here [C] down by your _ [G] graveside
And rest for [Em] a while, neath [C] the warm [Am] summers?
I've [D] been walking all day, [C] and I'm nearly [G] done
I _ _ see by your [Em] gravestone you were [C] only [Am] nineteen
When [D] you joined the Great Fallen in [C] _ _
[D] 1916 _ _ _ _
[G] Well, I hope you died [Em] well, and [C] I hope you died [Am] clean
Oh, [D] young Rilly _ McBride, was it [C] slow and [G] obscene?
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [C] they play the [G] fife lowly?
Did [D] they sound the dead march as [C] they lowered you [D] down?
_ _ And did [C] the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
_ [Em] _ And did [G] the pipes play [C] the flowers of [D] the _
_ [G] forest? _ _ _
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Did you leave a [Em] wife [C] or a sweetheart [Am] behind? _
[D] In some faithful heart is [C] your memory _ [G] enshrined
And when you [Em] died back [C] in _ [Am] 1916 _
[D] In that faithful heart are [C] you forever [G] nineteen? _
_ _ _ Or are you [Em] a stranger without [C] even [Am] a name
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Enclosed forever [C] behind a [D] glass pane? _ _
[G] In an old [Em] photograph torn, [C] _ battered [Am] and stained
_ [D] Enclosed and forgotten in [C] a brown leather [G] frame
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [C] they play the [G] fife lowly?
Did [D] they sound the dead march [C] as they lowered [D] you down?
_ _ And did [C] the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
_ [Em] _ And did [G] the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the _
_ [G] forest? _ _ _
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I am Rilly _ [Em] McBride, [C] I can't help wonder [Am] why
[D] Do those that lie here know [C] why [G] they died?
And did they [Em] believe [C] when they answered [Am] the calls?
[D] Did they really believe that [C] this war would [G] end wars?
_ _ But the killing, [Em] the suffering, [C] the glory, [Am] the pain
[D] The killing and dying [C] was all done [D] in _ vain
For [G] young Rilly _ [Em] McBride [C] it all happened [Am] again
[D] And again and again and [C] again and [G] again
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
Did [C] they play the [G] fife lowly?
Did [D] they sound the dead march [C] as they lowered [D] you down?
_ And [C] did the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
[Em] _ And [G] did the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the _
_ [G] forest? _ _ _
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The sun, [Em] now it shines [C] on the green fields [Am] of France
[D] There's a warm summer breeze that [C] makes the red [G] poppins dance
And see how [Em] the sun [C] shines from under [Am] the clouds
[D] There's no gas, no barbed wire, [C] there's no guns [G] firing now
_ _ _ But here in [Em] this graveyard [C] it's still no [Am] man's land
[D] The countless white crosses [C] lie mute in [D] the sand
_ To _ [G] _ man's [Em] blind indifference, [C] to his fellow [Am] man
[D] And to a whole _ generation [C] that were butchered [G] and damned
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did they play the [G] fife lowly?
Did [D] they sound the dead march [C] as they lowered [D] you down?
_ _ [C] And did the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
[Em] _ _ [G] And did the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the forest?
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