Green Fields Of France chords by The High Kings

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
F C Dm C (x2)

Verse 1:
F                         A#    C
Well how do you do, young Willy McBride?
C                              A#      C
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
     F                          A#          C
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
          C                A#             F
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
  F                               C
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
          C               F          A#      C
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
  F
I hope you died well
      A#
And I hope you died clean
                  C               A#       F
Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?

Chorus:
         C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A#            C
Did they play the fife lowly?
         C                             A#          C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A#                                 F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        Dm             A#             C     F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Interlude:
F C Dm C

Verse 2:
        F                       A#        C
Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind?
    C                          A#        F
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
F                         A#       C
Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen
   C                            A#      F
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?
   F                          C
Or are you a stranger without even a name
   C                     A#          C
Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane
       F                   A#
In an old photograph torn, battered, and stained
    C                    A#            F
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?

Chorus:
         C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A#            C
Did they play the fife lowly?
         C                             A#          C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A#                                 F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        Dm             A#             C     F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 3:
    F                       A#              C
The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France
           C                                A#          F
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
     F                           A#        C
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
            C                              A#         C
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now
    F                           C
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
     C              F             A#          C
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
   F                           A#
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
     C                          A#            F
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned


Chorus:
         C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A#            C
Did they play the fife lowly?
         C                             A#          C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A#                                 F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        Dm             A#             C     F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Verse 4:
          F                      A#               C
Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why?
   C                        A#        F
Do those that lie here know why they died?
    F                          A#           C
And did they believe when they answered the call?
         C                        A#            C
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
        F           F              C          F
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the shame
    C           F          A#          C
The killing and dying were all done in vain
          F                    A#
For young Willy McBride it all happened again
    C           C         A#         F
And again, and again, and again, and again

Chorus:
         C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A#            C
Did they play the fife lowly?
         C                             A#          C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A#                                 F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        Dm             A#             C     F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Chorus:
         C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
         A#            C
Did they play the fife lowly?
         C                             A#          C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A#                                 F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
        Dm             A#             C     F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?