Chords for The Fureys-The green fields of france-HQ

_ Will you give Luke Crowley a big hand on this side of the stage and my side of the stage? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Well how [Em] do you do _ [G] young lady?
[Am] _ _ Do [D] you mind if I sit here [C] down by your [G] _ graveside
And rest for [Em] a while [G] in these warm [Am] summers?
_ _ [D] I've been walking all day [C] and I'm [G] nearly done
_ _ _ I see by [Em] your graves now [C] you were only [Am] nineteen
_ [D] When you joined the brave fight [C] in nineteen [D] sixteen _ _
_ _ I [G] hope you [Em] died well, I [C] hope you [Am] died clean
Are [D] you lonely like Brian while [C] the slow ones [G] sing?
Did he [D] beat the drums slowly?
Did [C] he play the [G] pipe lowly?
Did [D] he sound the dead [A] much [C] after he lowered [D] you down? _
_ [C] Did the band play the last [G] post and _ [Em] chorus?
_ Under the [G] pipes lay [Am] the flowers [D] on the _
_ [G] forest _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And did you [Em] leave a wife [G] or a sweetheart _
[Am] behind?
[D] In some faithful hearts [C] is your memory _ [G] enshrined _
Although you [Em] died back _ [C] in nineteen [G] [Am] sixteen
_ [D] In some faithful hearts [C] are you forever _ [G] nineteen?
_ _ _ _ Are you a [Em] stranger _ [C] without even [Am] a name?
It [D] glows then forever _
[C] behind the [D] glass _ frame _
[G] In an old _ [Em] photograph _ [C]
Paul Potter [Am] danced down
[D] And faded to yellow [C] in a brown leather [G] frame
Did [D] he beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did he play the [G] pipe lowly?
Did [D] he sound the dead much [C] after he [D] lowered you down?
_ _ Did [C] the band play the last [G] post and _ [Em] chorus?
_ Under the pipes [Am] lay the flowers [D] on the _ [G] forest _
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_ Now the sun [Em] shines down [G] on the green fields [Am] of France
[D] There's a warm summer [G] breeze makes [C] the wreck [G] of me house
And look [Em] how the sun [C] shines from under [Am] the cloud
There's [D] no gas, no barbed wire, there's [C] no gun [G] firing now _ _
_ But here in this [Em] graveyard [G]
it's still no [Am] man land
[D] And there're countless white crosses [C] stunned mute [D] in the sun
_ _ [G] To man's [Em] blind indifference, [C] _ he's still no [Am] man
[D] To a whole _ generation [C] that was butchered [G] _ unhand
Did he [D] beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did he play the [G] pipe lowly?
[D] Did he sound the dead much [C] after he lowered [D] you down?
_ _ [C] Did the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
[Em] _ _
[G] Under the pipes lay [Am] the flowers on [D] the _ [G] forest _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Lonely, [Em] my cry, [C] I can't help but [Am] wonder why
[D] And those that lie here, [C] oh why did [G] they die?
And did they _ [Em] believe [G] when the hands took [Am] the cross?
[D] Did they really _ believe that [C] this war wasn't [G] _ _ worse?
_ Ah, the sorrow, [Em] the suffering, [C] the [G] glory, the [Am] pain
And [D] the killing and dying [C] was all done [D] in vain _
For [G] you, my _ [Em] cry, [C] it all happened [Am] again
_ And [D]
again, and again, [C] and again, and [G] again
Did [D] he beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did he play the [G] pipe lowly?
Did [D] he sound the dead much after [C] he lowered [D] you down?
_ _ [C] Did the band play the last [G] post and chorus?
[Em] _ Under the [G] pipes lay [Am] the flowers [D] on the _ _ [G] forest
[D] Did he beat the drums slowly?
[C] Did he play [G] the pipe lowly?
[D] Did he sound the dead much [C] after he lowered [D] you down?
_ Did [C] the band play the last [G] post and _ [Em] chorus? _
Under the [G] pipes lay [Am] the flowers [D] on the _ [C] forest _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _