Chords for Eric Bogle - No man's land - (Green fields of france)

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, how do you [D] do, [C] Private [Bm] William [Am] O'Brien?
[D] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
[G] And I'll rest for a [Bm] while in [C] the warm [D] summer [Am] sun.
I've [D] been walking all day, Lord, [C] and I'm [G] nearly 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 died quick [Dm] and I [A] hope you [D] died [Am] clean.
[D] Or Willie _ McBride, [C] was it slow and [G] it seemed
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did they sound [G] the fight lonely?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er ye [G] as they [C] lowered [G] you _ down?
_ Did [Gm] the [C] bugles sing the last [D] Boston chorus? _ _
[G] Did the pipes play the [C] _ flute [D] to the _ _ [G] chorus?
_ And _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ did you leave a [D] wife or [C] a sweetheart [D] _
[Am] behind?
[D] In some faithful heart did your [G] memory _ [D] shine? _
[G] And though you died back [C] in _
_ [Am] 1916
[D] To that loyal heart are you [C] _ [G] always nineteen?
_ Or _ are you a stranger [A] without [D] even [Am] a name?
[D] For a warren shrine [G] behind some [D] glass pane
[G] In an old photograph _ [A] turned in [Am] tattered and stained
[D] And fading to yellow [C] in a brown _ [G] evergreen?
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[G] Did they [C]
sound [G] the fight lonely?
Did [D] the rifles fire o'er ye as [C] they lowered [G] you _ down?
_ Did [C] the bugles sing the last [D] Boston chorus? _ _
Did [G] the pipes play [C] the flute [D] to the _ _ [G] chorus?
_ Well _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ the sun's shining [D] now on these [C] green [Bm] fields [Am] of frass
[D] The warm wind blows gently and [G] the red poppies [D] dance
[G] The trenches have vanished [C] long [G] under [Am] the plough
[D] No gas and no barbed wire, [C] no guns fighting [G] now
_ But _ in here in this graveyard [Am] it's still [D] no [Am] man's land
[D] The countless white crosses in [G] _ _ [D] _ utwitnestan
_ [G] Demands blind _ indifference [Am] to his fellow man
And [D] the whole _ generation [C] who were _ [G] butchered in Dam
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did they sound [G] the fight lonely?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er ye [C] as they lowered you [G] _
down?
_ Did [C] the bugles sing the last [D] Boston chorus? _ _
Did [G] the pipes play the [C] flute [D] to the _ _ [G] chorus? _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ And I can't help but [D] wonder [C] now Willie [D] _
[Am] _ McBride
[D] Do all those who lie here [G] 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?
_ _ [Am] The _ [G] suffering, the sorrow, [Am] the glory, the shame
[D] The killing, the dying, it [G] was all done [D] in vain
[G] For Willie _ McBride it [Am] all happened _ again
[D] And again and again and [C] again and [G] again
[D]
Did they beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did they sound [G] the fight lonely?
[D] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they [C] lowered [G] you down?
_ _ Did [C] the bugles sing the last [D] Boston chorus? _
_ Did [G] the pipes play [C] the flute [D] to the _ _ [G] chorus? _ _
_ Did [C] the bugles sing the last Boston [D] _ _ chorus? _
Did the [G] pipes play the [C] flute [D] to the chorus?
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