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