The Green Fields of France[G] - The fureys [Verse 1] NC G Em C Am Well how do you do, young Willie McBride D D7 C G Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? G Em C Am And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun D D7 C G I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done G Em C Am I see by your gravestone, you were only nineteen D C G D7 When you joined the great fallen in 1916. G Em Am I hope you died well and I hope you died clean D D7 C G Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? [Chorus] D D7 G Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly? D D7 C D Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Am G Em And did the band play the Last Post and Chorus? G D7 G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'? [Verse 3] G Em C Am Did you leave 'ere a wife or a sweetheart behind? D D7 C G In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined? Em C Am Although you died back in 1916 D D7 C G In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen? Em C Am Or are you a stranger without even a name D C G D7 Enclosed now forever, behind a glass frame? G Em Am In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained D D7 C G And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame [Chorus] D D7 G Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly? D D7 C D Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Am G Em And did the band play the Last Post and Chorus? G D7 G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'? [Verse 4] G Em C Am The sun, now it shines on the green fields of France D D7 C G There's a warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance Em C Am And look how the sun shines from under the clouds D D7 C G There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now Em C Am But here in this graveyard, it's still no man's land D C G D7 The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand G Em Am To man's blind indifference to his fellow man D D7 C G To a whole generation that were butchered and damned [Chorus] D D7 G Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly? D D7 C D Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Am G Em And did the band play the Last Post and Chorus? G D7 G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'? [Verse 5] G Em C Am Ah, young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why, D D7 C G Do those that lie here know, why did they die? Em C Am And did they believe when they answered the call D D7 C G Did they really believe that this war would end wars? Em C Am Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain D C G D7 The killing and dying were all done in vain G Em Am For young Willie McBride, it all happened again D D7 C G And again and again and again and again [Chorus] x2