Chords for The Green Fields of France

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Well, how do you [C]
do [F] young Lee [G] McBride?
[C] Do you mind if I [G] sit here [F] down by your graveside?
_ _ Rest [C] for a while
Need [F] a warm summer [G] sun.
_ [C] I've been walking all _ [F] day
And I'm nearly done.
[F] _ _
_ _ I
Can see by [Dm] your gravestone.
You're only [Bb] 19
When [C] you joined the great fallen
_ [F] _ _
[C] 1916 _ _ _ _
Well, I [F] hope you died [Dm] well, [Bb] and I hope you died [Gm]
clean
[C] Well, Lee McBride was [Bb] it slow on the [C]
scene
They beat the drums slowly
[F] Then they play the fife lowly
[C] Sound the death march as they [Bb] lowered [C] you down
_ _ _ There the band play the [Bb] last [F] post and chorus
[D] _ _ [F] There the pipes play [Bb] the flowers [C] on the _ forest
[F] _ _
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_ Did you leave her wife [Bb] or a sweetheart _
[Gm] behind?
And [C] that fateful heart is [Bb] your memory _
[F] enthroned
_ Oh you died [Dm] back in
[Bb] _ _ [G]
1916
_ _ [C] That fateful heart you're [Bb] forever _ [C]
19
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Or are [Dm] you a stranger [Gm] thou give [Bb] of the name?
[C] And closed out forever
_ [Bb]
Behind a [C] glass pane _
_ [F] Then a whole [Dm] photograph
_ [Bb] Torn to tatters [Gm]
stain
_ [C] Unfaded _ tealum [Bb] in a brown leather [F]
frame [C] They'd be
Drums slowly.
They [Bb] play the [F] fife lowly
_ [C] Sound the death march as [Bb] they lowered [C] you down
_ _ Near [F] the band play the last post and chorus
[D] _ _ Near [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers on [C] the _ _ [F] forest _ _
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_ Young Lee [Dm] McBride
_ [Bb] I can't help [Gm] wondering why
[C] Do those that lie here [Bb] know why they [F]
die
they
_ _ [Dm] _
believe
When [Bb] they answer the [Gm] call
[C] They really believe that this [Bb] war would end [F]
war
_ of the sorrow
_ [Dm] suffering [G] the glory the [Bb] pain [C] and the
Killing and [F] dying was it all done in [C] vain? _ _ _
Young Lee [Dm] McBride it [Bb] all happened [Gm] again _
[C] and again and again and [Bb] again [F] and again
_ [C]
They'd be
Drums slowly.
[Bb] They play the [F] fife lowly
[C]
Sound the death march [Bb] as they lowered [C] you down _ _
Near [F] the band play the last post and chorus
[D] _
Near [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers [C] on the _ [F]
forest
Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the Sun shines down on the green fields in France
There's a [C] warm summer's breeze.
It [Bb] makes a red puppies [F] dance _
Trenches have vanished long under the plow.
[Bb] There's no [D] gas [C] the barbed wire.
There's no [F] gun siren now
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But here in [Dm] this graveyard
[Gm] It's still no [Bb] man's land [C] and the countless white crosses stand [Bb] mute of the sun
_ _ from a [F] man's blind
[Dm] Endeavours [Bb] this fell [Gm] home
to [C] a whole _
Generation [Bb] old butcher
[F]
Don [C] they'd be the drums slowly.
They [Bb] play the [F] pipe lowly
[C] Sound the death march [Bb] as they lowered you down
_ _ There's a [F] band play the [C] last post
[Dm] chorus
_ _ There's a boy.
[F] He's played the flowers on [C] the forest _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] Live the band [C] play the last post
_ _ [Dm]
chorus _ _ _ _ _
near the
[Am] Play _ [F] the flowers on
_ for
_ _ _ Rose _
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