Chords for Green Fields Of France

Well this next song was written by a man called Eric Bogle and was described to me as
_ one of the best anti-war songs ever written by my father Finbar Fury _ _
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_ _ _ _ and those of you who heard and learned this song the first time around in the 1980s
will sing it for you now and if you didn't have listened to the lyrics they're just fantastic
here we go the green proof effects [G] _ _
[D] well _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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[E] _ _ how do you do young [C] Willie [D] McBride do you mind if I sit
here down [C] by [G] your graveside _ and rest for a while in the warm summer [D] sun I've been walking all day
and [C] I am [G] nearly done I _ see by your gravestone [D] you were only 19 when you joined the great
falling [C] in _ [D] 1916 _ I _ _
[G] hope you died well and I [C] hope you died clean or young Willie McBride was it's
_ [G] _ _ did [D] they beat the drums slowly did [C] they play [G] the fire flow did [D] they sound the death march
as [C] they lowered you [D] down _ _ did [C] the band play the last [G] Boston chorus _ _ did [Em] the pipes play [C] the flowers
of the [G] _ _
forest [D] did _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] _ you [G] leave a wife or a [C]
sweetheart _ [D] in some faithful heart is your [C] memory _ enshrined
although you died back in [C] _ _
[D] 1916 _ in that faithful heart [C] are you forever _
[G] 19 _ _ _ _
or are you a stranger [D] without even a name _ enclosed and [G] forever _ [C] behind the [D] glass frame _
_ and [G] an old photograph torn [C] and battered and stained and [D] faded to yellow and a [Am] brown leather [G] frame
did [D] they beat the drums slowly [C] did they play the fire flow did [D] they sound the death march
[C] as they lowered [D] you down did the band play the last [G] Boston chorus _ _
[Em] did the pipes [C] play the flowers [E] of the _ _ [G] forest _
[D] the _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] sun now it shines [C] or the green [D] fields of France
there's a warm summer's breeze that [C] makes the red [G] poppies dance and look how the sun [C] shines from
under [D] the clouds there's no gas and no barbed wire [C] there's no gun [G] firing now _ but _ here in this graveyard
[D] it's still no man's land oh the countless [G] white crosses [D] stand mute in the sand
_ _ [G] to man's blind _ indifference [C] to his fellow man to [D] a whole generation that were [C] butchered and [G] damned
did [D] they beat the drums slowly did [C] they play the pipe flow did [D] they sound the death march
[C] as they lowered [D] you down _ _ _ [C] did the band play the last Boston chorus _ _
[Em] did the pipes play the [C] flowers [D] of the _ _ [G] forest _ [D] now [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] young William McBride _ [C] I can't help but [D] wonder
why to those that lie here know [C] why [G] did they die _ and did they believe when [C] they answered
[D] the call did they really _ believe that [Am] this war would [G] end worse _ _ the sorrow the suffering [D] the glory
the shame the killing [G] and dying [C] was all done [D] in vain _ _ for young Willie _ McBride it [C] all happened again
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[G] did _ [D] they beat the drums slowly [C] did they play the pipe flow did [D] they sound the death march
[C] as they lowered [D] you down _ _ [C] did the band play the last Boston chorus _ _
[Em] did the pipes play the flowers [D] of the _ _ [G] forest _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] thank you
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