Standard (EADGBE)

 Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride

 Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side

 And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun

 I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done

* *

 And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen

 When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen

 Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean

 Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene

Chorus

 Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly

 Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down

 Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus

 Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est

 And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind

 In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined

 And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen

 To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen

* *

 Or are you a stranger without even a name

 Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane

 In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained

 And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)

 The sun's shining now on these green fields of France

 The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance

 The trenches have vanished, long under the plough

 No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now

* *

 But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land

 The countless white crosses in mute witness stand

 To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man

 To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned

 And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride

 Do all those who lie here know why they died

 Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause

 Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars

* *

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

 The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain

 For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain

  -gain and

  -gain and

  -gain and

  -gain

ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS

NOTES:

- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change

- Period (.) = eighth-note rest

- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest

- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar