Chords for Eric Bogle - No Man's Land ( Green Fields of France )

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[F] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [F] Oh, how [Dm] do you do, [Bb] Private [Gm] Willie McGry?
[C] Do you mind if I [F] sit here down by your [C] graveside?
[F] I'll rest for a while [Bb] in the [Gm] warm summer sun.
[C] Been walking all day, Lord, and [F] I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone [Bb] you were [Gm] only nineteen
[C] When you joined the [Bb] glorious [F] fallen in [C] 1916.
[F] Well, I hope you died quick and [Gm] I hope you died [Fm] clean.
[C] Our Willie McGry was [Bb] as [F] slow and as seen.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they [F] sound the pipe lowly?
[C] Did the rifles [Gm] fire, oh, ye, as [Bb] they lowered [F] ye down?
Did the [Bb] bugles sing the last [C] post in chorus?
[F] Did the pipes [Bb] play the [Cm] flutes of the [F] chorus?
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[F] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] I'll [C] take my pleasure, [F] as it comes with [C] force.
[F] You were determined to do it, [Gm] but then [C] you were ashamed of yourself
And [F]
never did it.
[C] Yes, they lied to you [Bb] just [F] _
[C] like they did to us [Bb] today.
[F] And [Bb] you gave them [C] everything, _ [F] your strength, [Gm] your youth, [C] your [F] life. _ _ _ _
Well, the sun's shining now [Bb] on these green [Gm] fields of grass.
[C] The warm wind blows [F] gently and the red poppies [C] dance.
[F] The trenches have vanished [Bb] long [Gm] under the [C] plow.
No gas and [Bb] no barbed wire, no guns firing [F] now.
But here in this graveyard [Gm] it's still no man's land.
[C] The countless white [F] crosses in mute [C] wouldn't [F] stand
To man's blind indifference [Gm] to his fellow man.
[C] And a whole [Bb] generation who were [F] butchered and damned.
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they sound [F] the pipe lowly?
[C] Did the rifles fire, oh, [Bb] ye, as they lowered [F] ye down?
[Bb] Did the bugles sing the last post [C] in chorus?
[F] Did the pipes play the [Gm] [C] flutes of the [F] chorus?
_ Love _ _ the cross [Gm] only as the only trace [C] of your life.
[F] But hear [C] my oath, [F] to fight for peace [Bb] and to be [Gm] vigilant.
[C] If humanity falls [Dm] once [F] more into lies,
_ Then it can happen [Gm] that soon no one will live,
[C] No one who buries the billions [F] of dead.
[C] _ [F] But more and [Gm] more people find proof
[C] To prevent this war. _
[Bb] It's [F] time.
[C] Yes, they lied to [Bb] you just [F] like [C] we do to us [Bb] today.
_ [F]
[Bb] And you gave them [C] everything.
Your [F] strength, [Bb] your youth, [C] your [F] life. _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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