Verse
G# Fm C# A#m
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
D# D#7 C# G#
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
Fm C# A#m
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
D# D#7 C# G#
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
G# Fm C# A#m
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
D# C# G# D#7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
G# Fm A#m
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean,
D# D#7 C# G#
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[Chorus 1]
G# D# D#7 C# G#
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
D# D#7 C# D#
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
C# G# Fm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
G# C# D#7 G#
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 2]
G# Fm C# A#m
Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
D# D#7 C# G#
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Fm C# A#m
Although you died back in 1916,
D# D#7 C# G#
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
G# Fm C# A#m
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
D# C# G# D#7
Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame,
G# Fm A#m
In an old photograph all torn battered and stained,
D# D#7 C# G#
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[Chorus 2]
G# D# D#7 C# G#
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
D# D#7 C# D#
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
C# G# Fm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
G# C# D#7 G#
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
G# Fm C# A#m
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
D# D#7 C# G#
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance,
Fm C# A#m
And look how the sun shines from under a cloud,
D# D#7 C# G#
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now.
G# Fm C# A#m
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
D# C# G# D#7
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
G# Fm A#m
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
D# D#7 C# G#
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[Chorus 3]
G# D# D#7 C# G#
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
D# D#7 C# D#
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
C# G# Fm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
G# C# D#7 G#
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
G# Fm C# A#m
Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why,
D# D#7 C# G#
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
Fm C# A#m
And did they believe when they answered the call?
D# D#7 C# G#
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
G# Fm C# A#m
Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
D# C# G# D#7
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
G# Fm A#m
For young Willie McBride it all happened again,
D# D#7 C# G#
And again, and again, and again, and again.
[Chorus 4]
G# D# D#7 C# G#
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
D# D#7 C# D#
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
C# G# Fm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
G# C# D#7 G#
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
G# D# D#7 C# G#
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
D# D#7 C# D#
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
C# G# Fm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
G# C# D#7 G#
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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