^FWell how do you do, young ^A#Willy ^CMcBride? ^CDo you mind if I sit here down ^A#by your ^Cgraveside And r^Fest for a while 'neath the ^A#warm summer ^Csun I've been ^Cwalking all day, ^A#and I'm nearly ^Fdone I ^Fsee by your gravestone you were ^Conly nineteen When you j^Coined the great ^Ffallen in n^A#ineteen-^Csixteen I ^Fhope you died well And I ^A#hope you died clean Or young Willy McB^Cride, was is it ^A#slow and ^Fobscene?

Did they ^Cbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^A#play the fife ^Clowly? Did they ^Csound the death march as they ^A#lowered you ^Cdown? ^A#Did the band play the Last Post in ^Fchorus? Did the ^Dmpipes play the ^A#Flowers of the ^CForest^F?

Did you ^Fleave here a wife or a s^A#weetheart ^Cbehind? In s^Come faithful heart is your ^A#memory ens^Fhrined? ^FAlthough you died back in ^A#nineteen-^Csixteen In ^Cthat faithful heart, are you ^A#forever ^Fnineteen? Or ^Fare you a stranger without ^Ceven a name Enc^Closed then forever beh^A#ind a glass ^Cpane In an o^Fld photograph torn, ^A#battered, and stained And ^Cfaded to yellow in a ^A#brown leather ^Fframe?

Did they ^Cbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^A#play the fife ^Clowly? Did they ^Csound the death march as they ^A#lowered you ^Cdown? ^A#Did the band play the Last Post in ^Fchorus? Did the ^Dmpipes play the ^A#Flowers of the ^CForest^F?

The ^Fsun now shines o'er the ^A#green fields of ^CFrance There's a w^Carm summer breeze that makes the ^A#red poppies ^Fdance And l^Fook how the sun shines from ^A#under the ^Cclouds There's no g^Cas, no barbed wire, there's no ^A#gun firing ^Cnow But ^Fhere in this graveyard it's ^Cstill No Man's Land The c^Countless white ^Fcrosses stand ^A#mute in the ^Csand To ^Fman's blind indifference to ^A#his fellow man To a ^Cwhole generation that were ^A#butchered and ^Fdamned

Did they ^Cbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^A#play the fife ^Clowly? Did they ^Csound the death march as they ^A#lowered you ^Cdown? ^A#Did the band play the Last Post in ^Fchorus? Did the ^Dmpipes play the ^A#Flowers of the ^CForest^F?

Now young ^FWilly McBride, I can't ^A#help but wonder, ^Cwhy? Do ^Cthose that lie here know ^A#why they d^Fied? And ^Fdid they believe when they ^A#answered the ^Ccall? Did they ^Creally believe that this ^A#war would end ^Cwars? For the ^Fsorrow, the ^Fsuffering, the ^Cglory, the ^Fshame The ^Ckilling and ^Fdying were ^A#all done in ^Cvain For young ^FWilly McBride it all ^A#happened again And ^Cagain, and a^Cgain, and ^A#again, and ^Fagain

Did they ^Cbeat the drums slowly? Did they ^A#play the fife ^Clowly? Did they ^Csound the death march as they ^A#lowered you ^Cdown? ^A#Did the band play the Last Post in ^Fchorus? Did the ^Dmpipes play the ^A#Flowers of the ^CForest^F?

The High Kings - Green fields of france