Green Fields of France

Accordi Green Fields of France

Intro:
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Well, how do you do,  young Willie McBride?
                               
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Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
         
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And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
                                 
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I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
         
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I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
         
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When you joined the great fallen in 1916
  
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I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
         
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Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
         
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Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         
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did they play the fife lowly?
         
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Did they sound the death march 
        
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as they lowered you down?
        
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Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        
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Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

        
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Did you leave a  wife or a sweetheart behind
                               
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In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
               
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Although, you died back in 1916
                                 
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In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
           
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Or are you a stranger without even a name
  
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Enclosed in forever behind the glass frame
      
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In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
    
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And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
         
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Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         
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did they play the fife lowly?
         
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Did they sound the death march 
        
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as they lowered you down?
        
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Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
            
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And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

    
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The sun now it shines on the green fields of France

There's a warm summer breeze 
               
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that makes the red poppies dance
              
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And look how the sun shines from under the clouds

There's no gas, no barbed wire, 
           
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there's no guns firing now
             
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But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
    
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The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
    
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To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
     
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To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
         
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Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         
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did they play the fife lowly?
         
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Did they sound the death march 
        
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as they lowered you down?
        
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Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        
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Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

         
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Ah young Willie Mc-Bride, I can't help wonder why
                             
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Do those that lie here know why did they die?
             
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And did they believe when they answered the cause

Did they really believe 
          
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that this war would end wars?
                 
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Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
    
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The killing and dying, were all done in vain
          
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For young Willie Mc-Bride, it all happened again
     
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And again, and again, and again, and again
         
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Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         
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did they play the fife lowly?
         
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Did they sound the death march 
        
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as they lowered you down?
        
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Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        
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Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?
         
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Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         
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did they play the fife lowly?
         
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Did they sound the death march 
        
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as they lowered you down?
        
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Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        
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Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

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