Chords for Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields of France

_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Oh, how [Cm] do you do, [Ab] young Willie _ [Bb]
McRyde?
Do you mind if I sit [Eb] here down by your graveside
And rest for [Ab] a while in the warm summer [Bb]
sun?
[F] I've been walking [Bb] all [Ab] day and I'm [Eb] nearly done
And I see by your gravestone [Fm] you were only nineteen
[Bb] When you joined the Great [Ab] Fallen in nineteen [Bb] sixteen
_ _ [Eb] _
Well I hope you [Cm] died quick [Fm] and I hope you died clean
[Bb] Oh, Willie _ McRyde, was [Ab] it slow and [Eb] obscene?
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play the pipe [Eb] lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march as [Ab] they lowered you [Bb]
down?
_ _ Did the [Ab] band play the last post [Eb] and _ _ [Cm] chorus?
Did [Eb] the pipes play [Ab] the flowers [Bb] of the _ [Eb] forest? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And did you [Cm] leave a wife [Eb] or a sweetheart [Bb] behind?
_ In some loyal heart is [Eb] your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in nineteen [Bb]
sixteen
To that loyal heart [Eb] you're forever _ nineteen
Or are you a [C] stranger [Fm] without even a name?
_ [Bb] Forever _ _ [Ab] enshrined behind some old [Bb] glass pane? _ _
In an old [Cm] photograph _ [Fm] torn, tattered and stained
[Bb] And faded to yellow [Ab] in a brown [Eb] leather frame
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play the pipe [Eb] lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down?
_ _ Did the [Ab] band play the last post and [Eb] _ _ [Cm] chorus?
Did [Eb] the pipes play [Ab] the flowers of [Bb] the _ [Eb] forest? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The sun's shining down on these green fields [Bb] of France
The warm wind blows gently [Eb]
and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under [Bb] the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, [F]
[Ab] no guns [Eb] firing now
But here in [Cm] this graveyard [Fm] that's still no man's land
[Bb] The countless [F] white crosses [Eb] in mute [Bb] witness stand
_ [Eb] _
To a man's blood, _ indifference [Fm] to his fellow _ man
[Bb] And a whole _ _ generation [Eb] were butchered and damned
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play the [Eb] pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down?
_ _ _ [Ab] Did the band play the last post and [Eb] _ _ [Cm] chorus?
[Eb] Did the pipes play [Ab] the [Bb] flowers of the forest?
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And I can't help but wonder, no Willie _ [Bb]
McBride
Do all those who lie [Ab]
here know why [Eb] they died?
Did you really [Cm] believe [Ab] them when they told you [Bb] the cost?
Did you really believe [F] that [Ab] this war would [Eb] end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, [Fm] the glory, the shame
[Bb] The killing and [F] dying, it was all done in vain
_ _ [Bb] _
[Eb] Oh, Willie _ [Cm] McBride, it [Fm] all happened again
_ [Bb] And again and [F] again and [Eb] again and again
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Eb] Did they play the pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down?
_ _ [Ab] Did the band play the last post and [Eb] _ _ [Cm] chorus?
[Eb] Did the pipes play the [Bb] flowers of the _ [Ab] forest? _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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