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?