The Green Fields Of France chords by Dropkick Murphys

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
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     Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
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     Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
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     And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
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     I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.




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     I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
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     When you joined the great fallen in 1916
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     I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
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     Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Chorus 1:
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     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
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     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
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     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
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     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 2:
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     And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
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     In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
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     And though you died back in 1916
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     To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen?
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     Or are you a stranger without even a name?
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     Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
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     In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained
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     And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

Chorus 2:
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
          Bb/F              Ab/Eb    Bb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb   Ab/Eb     Bb/F      Eb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 3:
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     The sun shinning down on these green fields of France
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     The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
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     The trenches have vanished long under the plow
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     No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
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     But here in this graveyard That's still "No Man's Land"
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     The countless white crosses in mute with the sand
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     To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
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     And a whole generation were butchered and damned.

Chorus 3:
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb   Ab/Eb     Bb/F      Eb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 4:
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     And I can't help but wonder no Willie McBride
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     Do all those that lie here know why did they die?
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     And did you really believe them when they told you the cuase?
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     Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
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     Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
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     The killing and dying were all done in vain
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     For Willie McBride it all happened again
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     And again, and again, and again, and again.

Chorus 4:
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb   Ab/Eb     Bb/F      Eb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Eb
     Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
     Bb/F                  Ab/Eb     Bb/F
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
         Ab/Eb            Eb Cm/Eb
     Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
     Eb   Ab/Eb     Bb/F      Eb
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?