Green Fields Of France Chords

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Intro

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Verse 1

 Well Ghow do you dGo, Private WCilliam McBAmride.

 Do you mDind if I sDit here down bGy your gravesDide?

 I'll rGest for awGhile in the wCarm summer sAmun.

 I've been wDalking all dDay, and IC'm nearly dGone.

 And I sGee by your gGravestone, you were oCnly ninetAmeen

 When you jDoined the dead hDeroes in 1G91D5.

 Well, I hGope you died qGuick, and I hCope you died cAmlean.

 Or, WDillie McBDride, was it sClow and obsGcene?

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 Did they bDeat the drum sDlowly; did they sCound the fifes lGowly;

 Did the rDifles fire oD'er you as they lCowered you dGown?

 Did the bCugle play The LCast Post and CDhorus; D

 Did the pCipes play The FAmlowers of the FDoreGst?

Verse 2

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind;

In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?

And, though you died back in 1915,

In some faithful heart are you forever 19?

Or are you a stranger without even a name,

Enshrined forever behind a glass frame,

In an old photograph, torn & tattered & stained,

And fading to yellow in a bound leather frame?

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Verse 3

Well, the sun, it shines down on these green field of France.

The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.

The trenches have vanished now, under the plow.

No gas and no barbed wire, no guns fire now.

But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land.

And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand

To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.

And a whole generation who butchered & damned.

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Verse 3

Well, I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride,

Do all those who lie here know why they died?

Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?

Did you really believe this war would end all wars?

Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,

The killling, the dying, it was all done in vain.

For William McBride, it's all happened again,

And again, and again, and again, and again.

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