Chords for Fureys - The Green Fields Of France

_ [G] _ _ This next song is one of my favorite songs.
[E] It's a bit long, I think it's a very
beautiful song.
It was written by a [B] man called Eric Bogle.
He wrote a song
[E] about when he was on holidays one time over in France.
He couldn't get over all
the white crosses from the First World War and he thought it was such a waste of
life [B] _
because there were no names on some of the crosses.
He sat down and he wrote
this amazing [E] song.
It's probably the greatest anti-war [B] song ever written and _ [Em] if people
would listen to it all over the world there'd be less trouble _ than we have at
the moment.
So it's an absolutely great song.
It's called The Green Fields of France.
Have a listen to it.
Beautiful [E] song. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ It [A] warms [B] my soul.
_ I've been gone all day _ [A] and I've been [E]
done. _ _ _ _ _ _
I [C#m] was raised [E] down [A] in Newmarket, _ [F#m]
19.
I [B] joined the Great Father [A] in _ _ [B] 1916. _ _
_ _ [E] I hope you've done it [C#m] right and [A] I hope you've done [F#m] it right.
I've been clean, [B] but the army will eat my brain.
That's [A] what's in the war.
[E] Did _ [B] you bleed to grow slowly?
[A] Did you play [E] the pipe loudly?
[B] Did you sound good that much?
[A] Has the law [B] put you down? _ _ _
[A] Did the body play in the last [E] boss in the chorus?
_ [C#m] Did [E] the pipes [A] play the flowers [B] on the fall [E] of May? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Did you leave [B] [C#m] your wife and [A] a sweetheart [B] _ behind?
Did some faithful heart [A] change and leave [E] it behind?
_ I'll tell you [B] what I [C#m] did _ [A] in _ _ [B] 1916.
_ In that faithful heart, I [A] used to have a [E] 19. _ _ _ _
_ I [B] knew a [C#m] stranger with [A] a diva's [F#m] eye.
_ [B] They drove them far and wide [A] behind the [B] glass _ frame.
_ In [E] an old [C#m] vaulted well, [A] tall buttons [F#m]
came [B] up late.
Did you bleed to [A] grow _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ slowly?
Did you [A] play the [E] pipe loudly?
[B] Did you sound good that much?
Has [A] the law put you [B] down?
_ _ _ [A] Did the body play in the last [E] boss in the chorus?
[B] _ [C#m] _
Did [E] the pipes [A] play the flowers [B] on the fall [E] of May? _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ The sun [C#m] never shines [A] on _ [B] Greenfield's _ friends.
It is a warm summer's breeze.
It [A] makes the red [E] puppies dance. _
And look, _ [B] _ [C#m] _ shines [A] from up there [B] in the clouds.
There's no gas, no bad weather, there's [A] no gunfire in [E] there. _
_ _ _ But in [C#m] this graveyard is [A] the normal [F#m] answer. _
[B] The countless white crosses [A] and beads [B] in the sun. _ _
Do [E] I look like [C#m] them devils [A] to you, sir?
[F#m] _ _ [B] To all _ generations, [A] I look like a dumb, [E] dumb fool.
Did you [B] bleed to grow slowly?
Did [A] you play [B] the [E] pipe loudly?
[B] Did you sound good that much?
Has [Am] the law put [B] you down?
_ _ _ [A] Did the body play in the last [E] boss in the chorus?
[B] _
[C#m] _ [E] Did the pipes play [A] the flowers [B] on the fall [E] of May? _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I am only a [C#m] blackbird.
I [A] can't help but wonder [B] why.
_ To those little I knew, never [A] mind.
Did they [E] die? _
And did they [C#m] believe?
[A] But the others, [B] to come.
Did you really _ believe?
[A] Not this one, but them [E] two boys.
_ _ By the sorrow, [B] [C#m] the suffering, [A] the glory, [F#m] the pain,
[B] the killing and dying, [A] and all the [B] remorse. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ Only [B] my [C#] pride [A] in all of them, [F#m] they get.
[B] And again and again and [A] again and [E] again.
Did [B] they bleed to grow slowly?
[A] Did you play the [E] pipe loudly?
[B] Did you sound good that much?
[A] Has the law [B] put you down?
_ _ _ [A] Did the body play in the last [E] boss in the chorus?
[C#m] _ [E] Did the pipes [A] play the flowers [B] on the [E] fall of May?
Has the [B] law put you down?
Did [A] you play [E] the pipe loudly?
[B] Did you sound good that much?
Has [A] the law put [B] you down?
_ _ _ [A] Did the body play in the last [E] boss in the chorus?
[B] _ [C#m] _
_ [E] Did the pipes [A] play the flowers [B] on the fall of [A] May? _ _ _
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