Chords for Eric Bogle - The Green Fields of France

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[G] Wel, how [D] do you do, [C] Private [D] William [Am] McBride?.
[D] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?.
[G] And I'll rest for a [D] while in [C] the warm [D] summer [Am] sun.
[D] I've been walking all day, Lord, [C] and I'm nearly [G].
done.
I see by your [D] gravestone [Am] you were only nineteen.
[D] When you joined the glorious fallen in [G] [D] 1916.
[G] Well, I hope you [D] died quick and [A] I hope [D] you died [Am] clean.
[D] Our William McBride was [C] a slow [G] and a sing.
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?.
[G] Did they sound the final only?.
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er ye [C] as they lowered [G] you down?.
Did the [Gm] eagles sing the [C] last post [D] in chorus?
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[G] Did the pipes play the [C] .
flures of [D] the [G] forest?
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And [C] [D] .
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did you leave a [D] wife or a [C] sweetheart [D] [Am] behind?.
[D] In some faithful heart is your [G] memory [D] .
enshrined?.
[G] And though you died [D] back [C] in [Am] 1916,.
[D] To that loyal heart are you [C] [G] always nineteen?.
Or are you a stranger without [A] [Am] even a name?.
[D] For a barren shrine [G] behind sunglass [D] pane.
[G] In an old photograph [A] turned and [Am] tattered in stain?.
[D] And fading to yellow [C] in a brown [G] leather frame?.
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?.
[G] Did they sound the final only?.
Did [D] the rifles fire o'er ye as [C] they lowered [G] you down?.
Did [C] the eagles [Em] sing the last [D] post in chorus?
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Did the [G] pipes play the [C] .
flures [D] of the [G] forest?.
Well, [C] [D] .
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the sun's shining now [D] on these [C] green [Bm] fields [Am] of grass,.
[D] The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,.
[G] The trenches have vanished [C] long [D] under [Am] the plough,.
[D] No gas and no barbed wire, [C] no guns fighting [G].
now,.
But here in this graveyard [Am] it's still [D] no [Am] man's land,.
[D] The countless white crosses in [G] mute [D] witness stand,.
[G] To man's blind indifference [Am] to his fellow man,.
And [D] the whole generation [C] who were [G] butchered in damn?.
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly?.
[C] Did they sound the [G] final only?.
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as [C] they lowered you [G] down?.
Did [C] the eagles sing the last [G] post in [D] chorus?
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Did [G] the pipes play [C] the flures [D] of the [G] forest?.
And [C] [D] .
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I can't help but [Bm] wonder, [C] nobly, [D] [Am] but pride,.
[D] Do all those who lie [G] here know why [D] they died?.
[G] Did you really believe them when [C] they told [G] you [Am] the cause?.
[D] Did you really believe that [C] this war would end [G] war?.
[Em] The [G] suffering, the sorrow, [Am] the glory, the shame,.
[D] The killing, the dying, [G] it was all done [D] in vain,.
[G] But will you not pray that it [A] all [Am].
happened again?.
[D] And again and again and [C] again [G] and again,.
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?.
[C] Did they sound [G] the final only?.
Did [D] the rifles fire o'er ye as [C] they lowered [G] you down?.
Did [C] the eagles sing the last [D] post in chorus?.
[G] Did the pipes play the [C] flures of [D] the [G] forest?
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[D] Did the [C] eagles sing the last post [D] in chorus?
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Did [G] the pipes play [C] the flures of the [D] forest?.
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