Green Fields Of France Live chords by The High Kings
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 1st
- Difficulty: Intermediate 💪
Performance: live
Intro:
E C#m A B (x2)
Verse 1:
E C#m A B
Well how do you do, young Willy McBride?
B A E
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
E C#m A B
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
B A E
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
E C#m A F#m
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
B B A B
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
E C#m
I hope you died well
A F#m
And I hope you died clean
B A E
Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?
Chorus:
B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A E
Did they play the fife lowly?
B A B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A E C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
E A B E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Verse 2:
E C#m A B
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
B A E
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
E C#m A B
Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen
B A E
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?
E C#m A F#m
Or are you a stranger without even a name
B A B
Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane
E C#m
In an old photograph
A F#m
torn, battered, and stained
B A E
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
Chorus:
B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A E
Did they play the fife lowly?
B A B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A E C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
E A B E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Verse 3:
E C#m A B
The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France
B A E
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
E C#m A B
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
B A E
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
E C#m A F#m
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
B B A B
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
E C#m A F#m
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
B A E
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
Chorus:
B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A E
Did they play the fife lowly?
B A B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A E C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
E A B E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Verse 4:
E C#m A B
Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why?
B A E
Do those that lie here know? Why did they die?
E C#m A B
And did they believe when they answered the call?
B A E
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
E C#m A F#m
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
B B A B
The killing and dying was all done in vain
E C#m A F#m
For young Willy McBride it all happened again
B B A E
And again, and again, and again, and again
Chorus:
B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A E
Did they play the fife lowly?
B A B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A E C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
E A B E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Chorus:
B
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A E
Did they play the fife lowly?
B A B
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A E C#m
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
E A B E
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Published:
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