^BmWell how do you do, young ^AWilly McBride? Do you ^Emind if I sit here down ^Bmby your graveside And ^Bmrest for a while 'neath the ^Awarm summer sun I've been ^Ewalking all day, and ^BmI'm nearly done I ^Bmsee by your gravestone you were ^Aonly nineteen When you ^Ejoined the great fallen in ^Bmnineteen-sixteen I ^Bmhope you died well And I ^Ahope you died clean Or young ^EWilly McBride, what is it ?

Did they ^Bmbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^Aplay the fife lowly? Did the r^Eifles fire over as they lowered ^Bmyou down? Did the bugles sound out the Last ^APost in chorus? Did the ^Epipes play the Flowers of the ^BmForest?

Did you ^Bmleave here a wife or a ^Asweetheart behind? In some f^Eaithful heart is your ^Bmmemory enshrined? ^BmAlthough you died back in ^Anineteen-sixteen In that ^Efaithful heart, are you f^Bmorever nineteen? Or are you a stranger without ^Aeven a name Enc^Elosed then forever beh^Bmind a glass pane In an o^Bmld photograph torn, b^Aattered, and stained And ^Efaded to yellow in a ^Bmbrown leather frame?

Did they ^Bmbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^Aplay the fife lowly? Did the r^Eifles fire over as they lowered ^Bmyou down? Did the bugles sound out the Last ^APost in chorus? Did the ^Epipes play the Flowers of the ^BmForest?

The ^Bmsun now shines o'er the ^Agreen fields of France There's a w^Earm summer breeze that makes the ^Bmred poppies dance And look how the sun shines from ^Aunder the clouds There's no ^Egas, no barbed wire, there's no ^Bmgun firing now But here in this graveyard it's ^Astill No Man's Land The c^Eountless white crosses stand mute in the ^Bmsand To man's blind indifference to^A his fellow man To a ^Ewhole generation that were butchered and damned

Did they ^Bmbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^Aplay the fife lowly? Did the r^Eifles fire over as they lowered ^Bmyou down? Did the bugles sound out the Last ^APost in chorus? Did the ^Epipes play the Flowers of the ^BmForest?

Now young ^BmWilly McBride, I can't help ^Awonder, why? Do ^Ethose that lie here k^Bmnow why they died? And ^Bmdid they believe when they ^Aanswered the call? Did they^E really believe that this^Bm war would end wars? For the ^Bmsorrow, the suffering, the ^Aglory, the shame The ^Ekilling and dying were ^Bmall done in vain For young ^BmWilly McBride it all ^Ahappened again And ^Eagain, and again, and again

Did they ^Bmbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^Aplay the fife lowly? Did the r^Eifles fire over as they lowered ^Bmyou down? Did the bugles sound out the Last ^APost in chorus? Did the ^Epipes play the Flowers of the ^BmForest?

Misc Your Songs - Mandolin monday - green fields of france