Verse
A F#m D Bm
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
E E7 D A
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
F#m D Bm
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
E E7 D A
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
A F#m D Bm
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
E D A E7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
A F#m Bm
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean,
E E7 D A
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[Chorus 1]
A E E7 D A
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
E E7 D E
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
D A F#m
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
A D E7 A
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 2]
A F#m D Bm
Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
E E7 D A
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
F#m D Bm
Although you died back in 1916,
E E7 D A
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
A F#m D Bm
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
E D A E7
Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame,
A F#m Bm
In an old photograph all torn battered and stained,
E E7 D A
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[Chorus 2]
A E E7 D A
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
E E7 D E
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
D A F#m
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
A D E7 A
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
A F#m D Bm
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
E E7 D A
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance,
F#m D Bm
And look how the sun shines from under a cloud,
E E7 D A
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now.
A F#m D Bm
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
E D A E7
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
A F#m Bm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
E E7 D A
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[Chorus 3]
A E E7 D A
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
E E7 D E
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
D A F#m
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
A D E7 A
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
A F#m D Bm
Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why,
E E7 D A
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
F#m D Bm
And did they believe when they answered the call?
E E7 D A
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
A F#m D Bm
Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
E D A E7
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
A F#m Bm
For young Willie McBride it all happened again,
E E7 D A
And again, and again, and again, and again.
[Chorus 4]
A E E7 D A
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
E E7 D E
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
D A F#m
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
A D E7 A
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
A E E7 D A
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
E E7 D E
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
D A F#m
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
A D E7 A
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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