Chords for Green Fields Of France
Tempo:
89.85 bpm
Chords used:
C
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F
Fm
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C] [G]
[C] [Bb] [C] [Fm] Well, how do you do [Bb] young Willie [C] McBride?
you mind if I sit here down [Bb] by your grave [Fm] side?
And rest for a while [Bb] near the warm summer sun.
been walking all day [Gm] and I'm nearly [Fm] done.
[F] I see by your [C] gravestone you were only 19
1916.
I hope you died clean.
[C] [Bb] [C] [Fm] Well, how do you do [Bb] young Willie [C] McBride?
you mind if I sit here down [Bb] by your grave [Fm] side?
And rest for a while [Bb] near the warm summer sun.
been walking all day [Gm] and I'm nearly [Fm] done.
[F] I see by your [C] gravestone you were only 19
1916.
I hope you died clean.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Fm] Well, how do you do [Bb] young Willie [C] McBride?
[G] Do you mind if I sit here down [Bb] by your grave [Fm] side?
And rest for a while [Bb] near the warm summer sun.
I've been walking all day [Gm] and I'm nearly [Fm] done. _
[F] _ I see by your [C] gravestone you were only 19
When you joined [Fm] the Great [Bb] Fallen in [C]
1916.
_ [Fm] I hope you died well [Bb] and I hope you died clean.
[C] Our young Willie McBride [Bb] was it slow and obscene.
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last post in [C] chorus?
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the forest?
_ _ [Gm] _
_ [G] _ [Fm] Did you leave here a wife [Bb] or a sweetheart [C] behind?
In some faithful heart [Bb] is your memory [Fm] enshrined.
Although you died back [Bb] in [C] 1960.
In that faithful heart [Bb] are you forever [Fm] 19?
_ _ [F] Or are [Fm] you a stranger [C] without even a name?
Enclosed [Fm] and forever [Bb] behind [C] a glass pane?
_ [Fm] In an old photograph [Bb] torn, buttered and stained.
[C]
Unfaded to yellow [Bb] in a brown [Fm] leather frame.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down? _
[Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post in chorus? _
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the _ [F]
forest?
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [Fm] The sun now it shines [Bb] o'er the green [C] fields of France.
There's a warm summer's breeze that [Bb] makes the red [Fm] poppies dance.
And look how the sun shines [Bb] from under [C] the clouds.
There's no gas and no barbed wire.
[Gm] There's no gun [Fm] firing now.
[F] _
But here in this graveyard [C] it's still no man's land.
All the countless [F] white crosses [Bb] stand mute [C] in the sand.
_ [Fm] To man's [G] blind indifference, [Bb] to his fellow man.
[C] To a whole generation [Bb] that were butchered [Fm] and damned.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post in chorus?
[Am] _ [Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the _ [F] forest?
[C] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] Now [Fm] young Willie McBride, [Bb] I can't help but [C] wonder why.
Do those that lie here [Bb] know why [F] did they die?
And did they believe when [Bb] they answered [C] the call?
Did they really believe that [Bb] this war [F] would end the wars?
_ For the sorrow, the suffering, [C] the glory, the shame.
The killing [Fm] and dying [Bb] were all done [C] in vain.
_ [F] For young Willie McBride [Bb] it all happened again.
[C] And again, and [Bb] again, and again, and [F] again.
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the [F] fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death [Bb] march as they lured [C] you down?
[Bb] And did the band play the last [F] post in chorus? _
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the [F] forest?
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the [F] fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death [Bb] march as they [C] lured you down?
And [Bb] did the band play the last [F] post in chorus?
[Am] _ [Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the [F] forest?
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Fm] Well, how do you do [Bb] young Willie [C] McBride?
[G] Do you mind if I sit here down [Bb] by your grave [Fm] side?
And rest for a while [Bb] near the warm summer sun.
I've been walking all day [Gm] and I'm nearly [Fm] done. _
[F] _ I see by your [C] gravestone you were only 19
When you joined [Fm] the Great [Bb] Fallen in [C]
1916.
_ [Fm] I hope you died well [Bb] and I hope you died clean.
[C] Our young Willie McBride [Bb] was it slow and obscene.
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last post in [C] chorus?
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the forest?
_ _ [Gm] _
_ [G] _ [Fm] Did you leave here a wife [Bb] or a sweetheart [C] behind?
In some faithful heart [Bb] is your memory [Fm] enshrined.
Although you died back [Bb] in [C] 1960.
In that faithful heart [Bb] are you forever [Fm] 19?
_ _ [F] Or are [Fm] you a stranger [C] without even a name?
Enclosed [Fm] and forever [Bb] behind [C] a glass pane?
_ [Fm] In an old photograph [Bb] torn, buttered and stained.
[C]
Unfaded to yellow [Bb] in a brown [Fm] leather frame.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down? _
[Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post in chorus? _
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the _ [F]
forest?
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [Fm] The sun now it shines [Bb] o'er the green [C] fields of France.
There's a warm summer's breeze that [Bb] makes the red [Fm] poppies dance.
And look how the sun shines [Bb] from under [C] the clouds.
There's no gas and no barbed wire.
[Gm] There's no gun [Fm] firing now.
[F] _
But here in this graveyard [C] it's still no man's land.
All the countless [F] white crosses [Bb] stand mute [C] in the sand.
_ [Fm] To man's [G] blind indifference, [Bb] to his fellow man.
[C] To a whole generation [Bb] that were butchered [Fm] and damned.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lured you down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post in chorus?
[Am] _ [Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the _ [F] forest?
[C] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] Now [Fm] young Willie McBride, [Bb] I can't help but [C] wonder why.
Do those that lie here [Bb] know why [F] did they die?
And did they believe when [Bb] they answered [C] the call?
Did they really believe that [Bb] this war [F] would end the wars?
_ For the sorrow, the suffering, [C] the glory, the shame.
The killing [Fm] and dying [Bb] were all done [C] in vain.
_ [F] For young Willie McBride [Bb] it all happened again.
[C] And again, and [Bb] again, and again, and [F] again.
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the [F] fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death [Bb] march as they lured [C] you down?
[Bb] And did the band play the last [F] post in chorus? _
[Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the [F] forest?
[C] Did they beat the drums [Bb] slowly?
Did they play the [F] fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death [Bb] march as they [C] lured you down?
And [Bb] did the band play the last [F] post in chorus?
[Am] _ [Dm] Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the [F] forest?
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
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