Chords for Dropkick Murphys - Green Fields of France - Memorial Video

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_ _ Oh, how [Cm]
do you do, [Ab] young Willie [Bb] _
McBride?
Do you mind if I sit [Eb] here down by your graveside
And rest for [Ab] a while in the warm summer [Bb] sun?
I've been walking all day [Ab] and I'm nearly [Eb] done
And I see by [Cm] your gravestone you [Fm] were only _ nineteen
[Bb] When you joined the Great [Ab] Fallen in nineteen [Bb]
sixteen
_ _ _ [Eb] Well, I hope you died [Cm] quick [Fm]
and I hope you died clean
[Bb]
Oh, Willie _ McBride, was it [Ab] slow and [Eb] obscene?
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play the [Eb] pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered you [Bb] down? _
_ Did [Ab] the band play the last post [Eb] and chorus?
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] Did the pipes [Ab] play the flowers [Bb] of the _ [Eb] forest? _ _ _ _ _
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And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart [Bb] behind? _
In some loyal heart is [Eb] your memory enshrined _
And though you died back in nineteen [F] sixteen _
To that loyal [Bb] heart you're [Eb] forever nineteen _
Or are you a [Cm] stranger [Fm] without even a name _
[Bb] Forever _ _ enshrined [Ab] behind some old [Bb] glass pane?
_ In an old [Cm] photograph _ [Fm] torn, tattered and stained
[Bb] And faded to yellow [Ab] in a brown leather [Eb] frame
[Bb] Did they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play the [Eb] pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down?
_ _ Did [Ab] the band play the last post [Eb] and _ _ [Cm] chorus?
[Eb] Did the pipes play the [Ab] flowers [Bb] of the _ [Eb] forest? _ _
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_ _ The sun's shining down on these green fields [Bb] of France
The warm wind blows gently [Eb] and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under [Bb] the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, [Ab] no guns [Eb] firing now
But here in [Cm] this graveyard [Fm] that's still no man's land
[Bb] The countless [F] white crosses [Eb] in mute [Bb] witness stand _ _
To man's blind [Cm] _ indifference [Fm] to his fellow man
[Bb] And a whole _ [Bb] _ generation [Eb] were butchered and damned
[Bb] Did they beat the drum slowly?
[Ab] Did they play [Eb] the pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down? _
_ Did [Ab] the band play the last post [Eb] and _ _
[Cm] chorus?
[Eb] Did the pipes [Ab] play the _ [Bb] flowers of the _
[Eb] forest? _ _ _ _
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And I can't help but wonder, no Willie [Bb] McBride
Do all those who lie [Eb] here know why they died?
Did you really [Cm] believe [Ab] them when they told you [Bb] the cost?
Did you really believe that [Ab] this war would [Eb] end wars?
Well, the suffering, [Cm] the sorrow, [Fm] the glory, the shame
[Bb] The killing and dying, [Eb] it was all done [F] in vain
_ _ [Eb] Oh, Willie _
_ [Cm] McBride, it [Fm] all happened again
[Bb] And again [F] and again [Eb] and again and again
Did [Bb] they beat the drum slowly?
[Eb] Did they play the pipe lowly?
[Bb] Did they sound the death march [Ab] as they lowered [Bb] you down? _ _
[Ab] Did the band play the last post and [Eb] _ _ [Cm] chorus?
[Eb] Did the pipes play the [Bb] flowers of the _ [Ab] forest? _
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