The Green Fields Of France Ukulele chords by Dropkick Murphys

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)


Intro:
D G A D (all chords are three long)

     D       Bm    G   A
     Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
         A     A      G      A
     Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
             Bm      G     A
     And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
          A         G     D
     I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
     D       Bm         Em
     I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
          A            G A
     When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
        D       Bm      Em
     Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
       A          G    D
     Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.

Chorus:

          A
     Did they beat the drum slowly,
          G      D
     Did they play the fife lowly,
          A              G     A
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
         G              D Bm
     Did the band play the last post and chorus,
         D       G       A D
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.



Verse 2:
     D          Bm     G     A
     And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,

     A       A      G    A
     In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,

     D       Bm      G A
     And though you died back in 1916,

     A       A       G    D
     To that loyal heart you're forever 19.

        D      D      Bm   Em
     Or are you a stranger without even a name,

     A     A          G     A
     Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,

     D         D       Bm     Em
     In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,

     A        A     G       D
     And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.


Chorus:

          A
     Did they beat the drum slowly,
          G      D
     Did they play the fife lowly,
          A              G     A
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
         G              D Bm
     Did the band play the last post and chorus,
         D       G       A D
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.


Verse 3:
     D         Bm       G       A
     The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,

      A           A      G      A
     The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,

     D          Bm      G     A
     The trenches have vanished long under the plow
     A      A       G      D
     No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
     D         Bm      Em
     But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
     A          A     G      A
     The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
     D         Bm          Em
     To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
     A         A          G     D
     And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.


Chorus:
          A
     Did they beat the drum slowly,
          G      D
     Did they play the fife lowly,
          A              G     A
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
         G              D Bm
     Did the band play the last post and chorus,
         D       G       A D
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.


Verse 4:
     D           Bm    G     A
     And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
     A         A     G      A
     Do all those who lie here know why they die,
     D        Bm           G      D
     Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
     A         A         G      A
     Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
     D             Bm     Em
     Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
     A          A     G      A
     The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
     D             Bm    Em
     Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
     A         A          G     D
     And again, and again, and again, and again.

Chorus:
          A
     Did they beat the drum slowly,
          G      D
     Did they play the fife lowly,
          A              G     A
     Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down,
         G              D Bm
     Did the band play the last post and chorus,
         D       G       A D
     Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.