Chords for The Corries - Green Fields Of France

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How do you do [Bb]
young [C] Waleem O'Brien? _ _
Do you mind if I sit here down [F] by your graveside? _
And rest for a while [Bb] in the [C] warm summer sun? _
I've been walking all day [F] and I'm nearly _ done.
_ I see by your gravestone [C] you were only nineteen
When you joined the Great Ballin' [F] in nineteen [C] _ _ _ -sixteen.
[F] Well I hope you died quick [C] and I hope you [Bb] died clean. _
[C] Willie _ McBride was [F] that slow and obscene.
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they [C] lulled you _ down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus?
_ _ Did the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the _ [F] forest? _ _ _ _
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Did you leave a young wife [Bb] or a sweetheart [C] behind? _
In some faithful heart [F] is your memory _ _ enshrined.
Though I know that you died [Bb] back in nineteen [C] _ -sixteen.
In that faithful heart are you [F] forever _ nineteen? _
_ _ _ Or are you a stranger [C] without _ even a name?
_ Enclosed in forever _ [F] behind a [C] glass _ pane?
[F] In an old photograph [C] torn and tattered [Bb] and stained?
[C] And faded to yellow [F] in a brown leather frame?
[C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they _ [C] lulled you _ _ down?
[Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus?
_ _ Did the pipes [Bb] play the _ [C] flowers of the _
[F] forest? _ _ _ _
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The sun shines bright [Bb] on the green [C] fields of France.
A warm summer breeze [F] makes the red poppies dance.
_ Trenches are scattered _
[Bb] long under [C] the blue. _
No gas, no barbed wire, [F] there's no gunfire and _ now.
But here in this graveyard [C] it is still no man's land.
A countless [Gm] white crosses [C] [F] are mailed where they [C] _ _ _ stand.
[F] To man's blind indifference, [C] to his [Bb] fellow man.
[C] And a whole generation that [F] were butchered and damned.
[C] Did they beat the [Gm] drums [C] slowly?
[Bb] Did they play the [F] fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they _ [C] lulled you _ down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus?
_ _ Did the pipes [Bb] play the flowers [C] of the _ _
[F] forest? _ _ _ _
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I can't help but wonder [Bb] young William [C] Bright.
Do those who lie here [F] really know why they died?
Did they believe [Bb] when they answered [C] the call?
Did they really _ believe that [F] this war would end the _ _ walls?
The sorrow, the suffering, [C] the glory, the shame.
The killing and the dying [F] were all done in [C] _ vain.
For [F] young Liam McBride [C] it all happened _ [Bb] _ again.
[C] And again and again [F] and again and again.
Did [C] they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
[C] Did they sound the death march [Bb] as they lulled [C] you _ down?
_ [Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus? _
_ Did the pipes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the _ [F] forest? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Did they beat the drums slowly?
[Bb] Did they play [F] the fife lowly?
Did they [C] sound the death march [Bb] as they _ [C] lulled you _ _ down?
[Bb] Did the band play the last [F] post and chorus? _
Did the pipes [Bb] play the [F] flowers of the [C] _ forest?
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