Green Fields Of France Chords by The High Kings

[G] _ _ Well this next song was written by a man called Eric Bogle and was described to me as one of the best anti-war songs ever [N] written by my father Finbar Fury. _ _
_ _ He _ played with Fury Bogles and David Arthur.
And those of you who heard and learned this song the first time around in the 1980s will sing it for you now.
If you didn't have a listen to the lyrics they're just fantastic.
Here we go.
The Pinchers [G] effects. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
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[D] _ [G] Well how do you do young [C] Willie [D] McBride
Do you mind if I sit here [C] down by [Em] your [G] graveside
And rest for a while in the [C] warm [D] summer sun
I've been walking all day and [C] I am [G] nearly done
_ _ _ I see by your gravestone [D] you were only nineteen
When you joined [G] the great falling [C] in _ [D] 1916
_ I _ [G] hope you died well and [C] I hope you died clean
Oh [D] young Willie McBride [Am] was it's [G] alone I've seen
[D] Did they beat the drums slowly, [C] did they [G] play the fire flowing
[D] Did they sound the death march [C] as they lowered [D] you down
Did [C] the band play the last [G] Boston chorus
_ _ [Em] Did the pipes play [C] the flowers [D] of the _ [G] _ forest
[D] Did _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] you leave a wife or [C] a sweetheart
[D] In _ _ some faithful heart is [C] your memory [G] _ enshrined
Although you died back in [C] _ [D] 1916
_ In that faithful heart were [C] you forever [G] nineteen _
Or _ are you a stranger without [D] even a name
_ _ Enclosed and [G] forever _ [C] behind a [D] glass frame _
_ [G] And an old photograph torn, [C] _ battered and stained
[D] And faded to yellow [Am] and a brown leather [G] frame
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly, [C] did they play [G] the fire flowing
Did [D] they sound the death march [C] as they [D] lowered you down
Did [C] the band play the [G] last Boston chorus
_ Did [Em] the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the _ [G] forest
_ [D] The _
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] sun now it shines on [C] the green [D] fields of France
There's a warm summer's breeze that [C] makes the red [G] poppies dance
And look how the sun [C] shines from under [D] the clouds
There's no gas and no barbed wire, there's [Am] no gun [G] firing now
But _ _ here in this graveyard [D] it's still no man's land
Oh the countless [G] white crosses stand [C] mute [D] in the sand
To [G] _ man's blind indifference [C] to his fellow man
To [D] a whole generation [C] that were [G] butchered and damned
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly, [C] did they play [G] the fire flowing
[D] Did they sound the death march [C] as they [D] lowered you down _ _
[C] Did the band play the last [G] Boston chorus
_ _ [Em] Did the pipes play [C] the flowers [D] of the _ _ [G] forest
_ [D] Now [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] young William I cry, I [C] can't help but [D] wonder why
Do those that lie here know [C] why did [G] they die
And did they believe when [C] they answered [D] the call
Did they really _ believe that [Am] this war [G] would end worse
_ _ The sorrow, the suffering, [D] the glory, the shame
The killing [G] and dying [C] was all done [D] in vain _
For [G] young William I cry, it [C] all happened again
[D] And again and again [C] and again and [G] again
Did [D] they beat the drums slowly, [C] did they play [G] the fire flowing
[D] Did they sound the death march [C] as they [D] lowered you down
_ Did [C] the band play the last [G] Boston chorus
_ [Em] Did the pipes [C] play the flowers [D] of the _ [G] forest
_ [D] _ Thank [C] _ _ [D] you for coming _ [G] _ to the house [D] walk.
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