Chords for June Tabor - No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest

[N] _ [D] Well, how do you do [G] private William [Em] _ McBride?
[A] Do you mind if I sit you [G] down by your _ [A] graveside?
[D] I'll rest for a while in the [G] warm [E] summer [Em] sun.
[A] I've been walking all day [G] and I'm [D] nearly done. _ _ _
And I see by your _ gravestone you [Em] were only nineteen
_ [A] when you joined the [G] glorious fallen in nineteen [A] _
-sixteen.
[D] And I hope you died the weekend, [Em] I hope you died clean
[A] for William _ McBride [G] was slow and [D] _ _ obscene.
Did they [A] beat the drums slowly?
[G] Did they sound the [D] pipe lowly?
[Em] Did the rifles fire hoary [A] as the Lord [D] near died?
_ _ _ _ [G] Did the bugles sing the last post [A] in chorus? _
_ _ Did [G] the pipes play the flowers [A] of the _ [D] forest? _
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_ _ And did you leave a wife or [G] a sweetheart _ [Em] _ behind?
[A] In some loyal heart [G] is your memory _ _ [D] enshrined?
_ And though you died back [G] in [E] nineteen _ [Em]-sixteen
[A] to that faithful heart are [G] you always [D] nineteen? _
_ _ _ Or are you just a stranger [Em] without even a name?
_ [A] Forever _ [G] enclosed _ behind [D] some glass [A] pane
[D] in an old photograph _ torn [Em] and tattered and stained
[A] and fading to yellow [G] in a brown _ [D] leather?
_ _ _ _ Did they [A] beat the drums slowly?
[G] Did they sound the [D] pipe lowly?
[Em] Did the rifles fire hoary as [A] the Lord near [D] died? _ _
_ [G] Did the bugles sing the last [A] post in chorus? _ _ _
[G] Did the pipes play the flowers [A] of the _ forest?
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While the sun it shines down on these [G] green fields [Em] of France
[A] the warm wind blows gently as [G] the red [A] poppies dance
[D] the trenches are vanished now [G] under the [Em] plough
[A] no gas and no barbed wire, [G] no guns firing [D] now _ _
_ But here in this graveyard it's [Em] still no man's land
[A] and the countless white crosses [G] in mute [A] witness stand
[D] to man's blind _ _ _ [Em] instincts fell of man
and the [A] whole _ generation who [G] were butchered [D] and damned _ _
Did [A] they beat the drums slowly?
[G]
Did they sound the [D] pipe lowly?
[Em] Did the rifles fire hoary as [A] the Lord near [D] died?
_ _ _ [G] Did the bugles sing the last post [A] in chorus?
_ _ _ [G] Did the pipes play the flowers of [A] the _ [D] forest? _
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_ _ _ And I can't help but wonder now [G] will [Em] they cry _
[A] to all those who lie [G] and know [A] why they died
[D]
Did you really believe them when [G] they told [E] you the cause?
[A] Did you really _ believe that [G] this war would [D] end war?
_ _ _ But the suffering, the sorrow, _ _ [Em] the worry, the shame
[A] the killing, the [G] dying, it [D] was all done in [A] vain
_ [D] For William McBride it's all [Em] happened again
and [A]
again and again and [G] again [D] and again
_ _ Did [A] they beat the drums slowly?
[G] Did they sound the [D] pipe lowly?
Did the [Em] rifles fire hoary [A] as the Lord [D] near died?
_ _ _ _ [G] Did the bugles sing the last [A] post in chorus? _ _
_ _ [G] Did the pipes play [Em] the [G] flowers [A] of the _ _ [D] forest? _
_ _ _ [G] Did the bugles sing the last post in [A] chorus? _ _
_ [G] Did the pipes play the flowers of the _ [D] forest? _ _
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