The Green Fields Of France Chords by International Pub Ensemble

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_ Well, how do [Dm] you do?
[Bb] young Willie
_ [C] _ McBride
Do you mind if I sit here [Bb] down by your [F] grave site?
_ And rest [C] for [Dm] a while
[Bb] Need a warm [C] summer's sun.
_ I've been walking all day
[Bb] And I'm [F] nearly done. _ _ _
I
See [C] by [Dm] your gravestone you [Gm] are only
_ 1919 [C] when you joined the great fallen in [Bb] _ _ [C] 1916 _ _ I
[F] Hope you [C] died [Dm] well
And [Gm] I hope you died clean our [C] young Willie _ McBride
[Bb] Was it slow and [F] obscene?
Did [C] he beat the drums slowly there [Bb] they play [F] the five lowly today [C] sound?
Did that much I [Bb] still are [C] were you down? _ _ _
Under the [Bb] band play the last [F] post and [C] [Dm] chorus
Did [F] the pipes play the [Bb] flowers [C] of the fog?
_ [F] _ _
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_ _ _ Did you leave [C] [Dm] a wife [Bb] or a sweetheart [C] behind _ [F] [C] 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] _ _ _ Or _ are you
[Dm] Stranger [Bb] without even [Gm] a name
_ [C] enclosed and forever
_ [Bb] behind [F] the glass frame
[C] _ _ In an [F] old
_ [Dm] Graf
[Bb] torn butter [Gm] them stains [C] and faded to yellow [Bb] in the brown leather [F] _ frame
[C] Did he beat the drums slowly [Bb] there they play [F] the five lowly today [C] sound?
Did that much [Bb] I still are were [C] you down? _ _ _
[Bb] Did the band play the last post [F] and [C] chorus
[Dm] _
Under [F] the pipes play the [Bb]
flowers [C] of the fog
[F] _ _
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sun [Dm] now it shines
on the [Bb] green fields of [C] France
[F] There's [C] a warm [F] summer [C] breeze.
It makes [Bb] the red puppies [F] dance and
Look how [C] this [D] song shines [Bb] from under the [C] clouds
There's no gas.
No bad wire.
There's [Bb] no gun firing [F] now _ _
_ But here [C] in [Dm] this graveyard
[Bb] It's still no [Gm] man's land
[C] The countless white grasses [Bb] stand mute [F] in the [C] sun
_ _ To [F] a man's blind [Dm] indifference [Gm] to his fellow man
to [C] all
_ Generation [Bb] that were butchered [F] and damned did he [C]
beat the drums slowly [Bb] there they play
The [F] five lowly today [C] sound did that much [Bb] as the law will you [C] down? _ _
under [Bb] the band play the last [F] post and [C] chorus
[Dm] _
to [F] the pipes later [Bb] flowers [C] of
_ _ [F] Hi _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ young Willie
My [Dm] bride, I [Bb] can't help wonder [C] why
Do those that like him
[Bb] Nobody today [F] time and today [Dm] believe
_ [Bb] when the answer [C] the car
Did they really?
Believe that [Bb] this war would [F] end war
Well the sorrow [C] [Dm] the suffering [Bb] the glory [Gm] the pain
[C] the killing and dying [Bb] with all
done [C] in vain
_ _ For [F] your Willie [Dm] my bride it [Gm] all happened again
_ [C] and again and again and
[Bb] again [F] and again
Did [C] they beat the drums slowly there they [Bb] play [F] the five lowly today [C] sound?
Did that much [Bb] as the law [C] would you down? _ _ _
[Bb] Did the band play the last post [F] and chorus?
_ [Dm] _ _
[F] Did the pipes [Bb] later flowers [C] of the far?
[F] _ The [C] day beat the drums slowly there [Bb] they play the [F] five lowly today [C] sound
Did that much as the [Bb] law [C] would you down? _ _
_ Did [Bb] the band play the last post [F] and [C] chorus?
[Dm] _
_ [F] under the pipes [Bb] later flowers [C] of the
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