The Green Fields of France (No Man's Land) Chords

Well, how [E] do you do, [Am] Private William? _ _
[D] Do you mind if I sit here [Am] down by your [G] _ graveside
And rest for a while [Am] in the warm summer sun?
[D] I've been walking all day [C] and I'm [G] nearly done
I see by [B] your graveside you were [Am] only nineteen
[D] When you joined the glorious fallen [C] in nineteen [D] sixteen
[G] Well, I hope you [Em] died quick [C] and I hope you [Am] died clean _
[D] William _ McBride, was [C] it slow and [G] obscene?
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did the player fight [G] lowly?
Did the rifles fire o'er you?
[C] As they lowered [G] you down?
[C] Did the bugles sound the last [D] pulse in chorus? _ _
[G] Did the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the _ forest?
_ [G] _
_ _ And did you leave [Em] a wife [Am] or a sweetheart _ behind?
[D] In some loyal [G] heart is [C] your memory _
[G] enshrined?
And though [E] you died back [Am] in nineteen _ sixteen
[A] To that loyal heart are [C] you always [G] nineteen?
Or are [Em] you a stranger [Am] without even a name?
_ [D] _ Enshrined forever _ [C] behind some [G] glass pane?
Or in an old [Em] photograph _ [Am] torn and tattered and stained?
[D] Fade into yellow [C] in a brown leather [G] frame
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did the player [G] fight lowly?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er you?
[C] As they lowered [G] you down?
[C] Did the bugles play the last [D] pulse in chorus? _
_ _ [G] Did the pipes play the flowers of the _ forest? _ _ _ _
The sun's [Em] shining down [Am] on these green fields of France
[D] The warm wind [E] blows gently [Am] and the red puppies [G] _ dance
The trenches [Em] have vanished [Am] long under the plough
[D] No gas and no barbed wire, [C] no guns [G] firing now
But here in [Em] this graveyard [Am] that's still no man's land
[D] The countless white crosses [C] in mute [D] whiteness stand
[G] To man's [Em] blind indifference [Am] to his fellow man
[D] And a whole _ generation who [C] were butchered [G] and damned
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did the player [G] fight lowly?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er you?
[C] As they lowered [G] you down?
[C] Did the bugles play the last [D] pulse in chorus? _ _
[G] Did the pipes play the flowers of the _ forest? _ _
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_ _ And I can't help but wonder [C] now will he [Am] make bride?
[D] Do all those [Em] who lie here [C] know why they [G] died?
Did you really [Em] believe them [Am] when they told you the cause?
[D] Did you really believe that [C] this war would end [G] the wars?
When the suffering, [Em] the sorrow, [Am] the glory, the shame
[D] The killing, the dying, it [C] was all done [D] in vain
[G] For will he [Em] make bride?
It's [Am] all happened _ again
[D] And again and again and [C] again and again
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did the player fight [G] lowly?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er you?
[C] As they lowered [G] you down?
[C] Did the bugles sound the last pulse [D] in chorus? _
_ Did the pipes play the flowers of the _ [G] forest?
_ Did the pipes play the flowers [D] of the _ _ _ _ [G] forest? _ _
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