Chords for Willie Mcbride

[N] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Well, how do you [Dm] do young [Bb] Willie _ [C] McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here [Bb] down by your [F] _ graveside?
_ _ And rest for a while meets the [Bb] warm summer [C] sun
_ I've been walking all day, [Bb] and I'm nearly [F] done _ _
_ I
See by a gravestone you're only
[Bb] 19 _ when you [C]
join the great fallen [Bb] in _ _ _
[C] _ 1916
_ _ [F] I hope you died well, [Gm] and I hope [Bb] you died clean [C] for young Willie
McBride was it [Bb] slow and I'm [F] seen _ _ _
Today [C] beat the drum slowly [Bb] today play [F] the pipe lowly today [C] sound the death march [Bb] as they lower [C] down
_ _ _ _ [Bb] To the band play the last Boston [F] chorus
_ [Dm] _
Did [F] the bikes play [Bb] the flowers of [C] the forest?
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Did you leave your [Dm] wife [Bb] or a sweetheart _ [C] behind
_ in some faithful heart is your [Bb] memory _ [F] enshrined and
_ _ Although you died back in
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] 1916 in that faithful heart are you [Bb] forever? _
[F] 19
_ _ _ Or are you a stranger [Dm] without [Bb] even a name?
[C] _ enclosed in forever
_ [Bb] behind the glass [C] frame _ _
in an [F] old _ [Dm] photograph
Turn [Bb] battered and stained and [C]
faded to yellow in a [Bb] brown lead in [F] frame
_ _ Today [C] beat the drum slowly [Bb] today play the [F] pipe lowly today [C] sound the death march
As they lower you down _ _ _
[Bb] To the band play the last [F]
Boston chorus _ [Dm] did [F] the pipes play the [Bb] flowers of the [C] forest _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The Sun now it [Dm] shines on the [Bb] green fields of [C] rice
There's a warm summer breeze that [Bb] makes red poppies [F] dance
_ _ _ And see how the [Dm] Sun shines from [Bb] under the [C] clouds
There's no gas no barbed wire.
There's no [Bb] gun firing [F] now _ _
_ But here in this [Dm] graveyard
It's [Bb] still no man's land the [C] countless white crosses stand [Bb] mute in the [C] sand
_ _ _ To [F] man's blind _ [Dm] indifference to [Bb] his fellow man to [C] a whole generation _ _
That were [Bb] butchered and [F] damned _ _
Today [C] beat the drum slowly today [Bb] play the pipe [F] lowly today [C]
sound the death march
As [Bb] they lower [C] you down
_ _ [Bb] To the band play the last Boston [F] chorus _ _
[Dm] _ [F] To the pipes play the [Bb] flowers of the [C] _ _ [F] forest _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ No young
_ _ [Dm] McBride I can't [Bb] help wonder [C] why
The dolls that lie here know [Bb] why that they [F] died _
_ _ and
Did they _ [Dm] believe when they [Bb] answered the [C] call?
Did they really _ believe that [Bb] this war would end [F] war?
_ _ Well, I saw
_ [Dm] Suffering the [Bb] glory the shame the [C] killing the dying were [Bb] all done in [C] vain _ _
For [F] young William _ [Dm] McBride it all [Bb] happened again _ and [C] again and again
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ Today [C] beat the drum slowly today [Bb] play the [F] pipe lowly today [C] sound the death march
As they [Bb] lower you [C] down _ _
To [Bb] the band play the last Boston [F] chorus _ [Dm] _ to the [F] pipes play the [Bb] flowers of [C] the forest _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] Today beat the drum slowly today [Bb] play the pipe [F] lowly today [C] sound the death march as they lower you _ _ down
[Bb] To the band play the last [F] Boston chorus
_ [Dm] _ To [F] the pipes play [Bb] the flowers [C] of the _ _ [F] forest _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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