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