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NO MAN'S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
- AKA: The Green Fields Of France
- Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy
- Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones
- Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell
- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G
- Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
Well, Ghow do you
CHORUS:
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do, Private CWilliam Mc-AmBride Do you Dmind if I*
sit here, down Gby your grave-Dside And I'll Grest for a*
while in the Cwarm summer*
sun D * C G (*) I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done And*
I see by your*
gravestone, you were Amonly nine-*
teen When you D7joined the glorious*
fallen in Gnineteen six-Dteen Well I Ghope you died*
quick and I Amhope you died*
clean Or DWillie Mc-*
Bride, was it Cslow and ob-GsceneDid they Dbeat the drum
*
slowly, did they Csound the fife Glowly Did the Drifles fire*
o'er you as they Clowered you Gdown Did the Cbugles play The*
Last Post in Dchorus*
Did the Gpipes play The CFlowers Of The DFor-GestAnd did Gyou leave a
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NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)
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wife or a Csweetheart be-Amhind In Dsome faithful*
heart is your Gmemory en-Dshrined GAnd though you*
died back in Cnineteen-six-*
teen D * C G (*) To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen Or*
are you a*
stranger without Ameven a*
name D7Enshrined for-*
ever be-Ghind a glass Dpane In an Gold photo-*
graph, torn and Amtattered and*
stained And Dfading to*
yellow in a Cbrown leather GframeThe Gsun's shining
*
now on these Cgreen fields of AmFrance The Dwarm wind blows*
gently and the Gred poppies Ddance The Gtrenches have*
vanished, long Cunder the*
plough D * C G (*) No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now But*
here in this*
graveyard, it's Amstill No Man's*
Land The D7countless white*
crosses in Gmute witness Dstand To Gman's blind in-*
difference to Amhis fellow*
man To a Dwhole gener-*
ation who were Cbutchered and GdamnedAnd I Gcan't help but
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
NOTES:
- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change
- Period (.) = eighth-note rest
- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest
- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar
- Submitted: 94-02-06
- By: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)
- Make a Joyful Noise!
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wonder now, CWillie Mc-AmBride Do Dall those who*
lie here Gknow why they Ddied Did you Greally be-*
lieve them when they Ctold you the*
cause D * C G (*) Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars Well the*
suffering, the*
sorrow, the Amglory, the*
shame The D7killing, the*
dying, it was Gall done in Dvain For GWillie Mc-*
Bride, it's all Amhappened a-*
gain D * C G And A-gain and A-gain and A-gain and A-gain