The Green Fields Of France Chords by International Pub Ensemble

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Well, how do [Dm] you do?
young Willie
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McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down [Bb] by your grave [F] site?
_ And rest for [Dm] a while
Need [Bb] a warm summer [C] song
_ I've been walking all day
And [Bb] I'm [F] nearly done.
_ _ _ I
See [G] by your [Dm] gravestone you are [Bb] only
1919 [G] _ when [C] you joined the Great Fallen in
_ _ [C] 1916 _ I
_ [F] Hope you died [Dm] well, and [Bb] I hope you died [G] clean
Are you [C] on Willie? _
_ McBride [Bb] was it slow and
[F] _ Obscene to [C] the beat the drums slowly there [Bb] they play the [F] five lowly the day [C] sound
Did that much I still are were you down?
_ _ _ Under the [Bb] band play the last [C] post and chorus
[Dm] Did the [F] pipes play the [Bb] flowers of [C] the fall?
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_ Did you leave [Dm] and a wife
[Bb] or a sweetheart [G] behind and
_ Some faithful heart is [Bb] your memory [F] in shrine
_ Although you [D] died back
[Bb] in _ _
[C] 1916 in that faithful heart are [Bb] you forever? _
[F] 19 _ _ _
Or are you?
[Dm] Stranger [Bb] without even [Gm] a name _
[C] Enclosed them forever _
[Bb] behind the [C] glass frame
_ _ In an old [Dm] photograph
_ [Bb] Torn battered [G] and stained [C] and faded to yellow
[Bb] in the brown leather [F] frame
[C] Did he beat the drums loaded a [Bb] deploy [F] the fine flow leaded a [C] sound?
Did that March [Bb] as the law?
would [C] you down _ _
[Bb] Did the band play the last post [C] and chorus?
_ [Dm] _ And [F] did the pipes [C] play the flowers of the fall
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_ _ The Sun now it [Dm] shines on the [Bb] green fields of [C] France
[F] There's [C] a warm summer breeze.
It makes [Bb] the red puppies [F] dance and
Look out [C] this [D] song shines [Bb] from under the [C] clouds
There's no gas [G] no bad wire
There's [Bb] no gun firing [F] now _ _ _
But here [C] in this [Dm] graveyard
[Bb] It's still no [Gm] man's land
[C] the countless white crosses
[Bb] stand mute [C] in the Sun
_ _ To man's blind [Dm] indifference [Gm] to his fellow man
to [C] all _
Generation that [Bb] were butchered [F] and damned did he [C] be?
The drums slowly [Bb] did he play the [F] fine flow leaded [C] a sound?
Did that March [Bb] as the law?
would [C] you down
_ _ Under [Bb] the band play the last post [C] and chorus
[Dm] _ Did [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the fall?
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_ Hi young Willie
[Dm] My bride, I [Bb] can't help wonder [C] why
_ To those that lie here
[Bb] No, why did [F] they die?
_ and today [Dm] believe
[Bb] When the answer [C] the call
Did they really?
Believe [Bb] that this war would [F] end war _ _ _
Well the sorrow [Dm] the suffering [Bb] the glory [Gm] the pain
[C] the killing and dying [Bb] would all in [C] _ vain
_ For young Willie [Dm] my bride it [Gm] all happened _ again
[C] And again and again
_ [Bb] again
again
[F] _ Today [C] be the drums slowly there to [Bb] play the [F] fine flow leaded a [C] sound
Did that March as [Bb] the law?
would you [C] down
_ _ _ There the band played the last post [C] and chorus
_ [Dm] _ Did the [F] pipes play the [Bb] flowers of the [C] fall?
_ _ [F] The day [C] beat the drums slowly there to play the [F] fine flow leaded a sound
Did that March [C] as the law?
would you down _ _ _
Did [Bb] the band play the last post and chorus?
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Under the [F] pipes play [Bb] the flowers of the fall _ _
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