Verse
F Dm A# Gm
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
C C7 A# F
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
Dm A# Gm
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
C C7 A# F
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
F Dm A# Gm
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
C A# F C7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
F Dm Gm
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean,
C C7 A# F
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[Chorus 1]
F C C7 A# F
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
C C7 A# C
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
A# F Dm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
F A# C7 F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 2]
F Dm A# Gm
Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
C C7 A# F
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Dm A# Gm
Although you died back in 1916,
C C7 A# F
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
F Dm A# Gm
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
C A# F C7
Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame,
F Dm Gm
In an old photograph all torn battered and stained,
C C7 A# F
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[Chorus 2]
F C C7 A# F
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
C C7 A# C
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
A# F Dm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
F A# C7 F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
F Dm A# Gm
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
C C7 A# F
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance,
Dm A# Gm
And look how the sun shines from under a cloud,
C C7 A# F
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now.
F Dm A# Gm
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
C A# F C7
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
F Dm Gm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
C C7 A# F
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[Chorus 3]
F C C7 A# F
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
C C7 A# C
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
A# F Dm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
F A# C7 F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
F Dm A# Gm
Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why,
C C7 A# F
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
Dm A# Gm
And did they believe when they answered the call?
C C7 A# F
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
F Dm A# Gm
Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
C A# F C7
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
F Dm Gm
For young Willie McBride it all happened again,
C C7 A# F
And again, and again, and again, and again.
[Chorus 4]
F C C7 A# F
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
C C7 A# C
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
A# F Dm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
F A# C7 F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
F C C7 A# F
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
C C7 A# C
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
A# F Dm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
F A# C7 F
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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