Verse
D Bm G Em
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
A A7 G D
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
Bm G Em
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun,
A A7 G D
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
D Bm G Em
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
A G D A7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
D Bm Em
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean,
A A7 G D
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[Chorus 1]
D A A7 G D
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
A A7 G A
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
G D Bm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
D G A7 D
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 2]
D Bm G Em
Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
A A7 G D
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Bm G Em
Although you died back in 1916,
A A7 G D
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
D Bm G Em
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
A G D A7
Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame,
D Bm Em
In an old photograph all torn battered and stained,
A A7 G D
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[Chorus 2]
D A A7 G D
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
A A7 G A
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
G D Bm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
D G A7 D
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
D Bm G Em
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
A A7 G D
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance,
Bm G Em
And look how the sun shines from under a cloud,
A A7 G D
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now.
D Bm G Em
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
A G D A7
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand,
D Bm Em
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
A A7 G D
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[Chorus 3]
D A A7 G D
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
A A7 G A
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
G D Bm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
D G A7 D
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
D Bm G Em
Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why,
A A7 G D
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
Bm G Em
And did they believe when they answered the call?
A A7 G D
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
D Bm G Em
Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
A G D A7
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
D Bm Em
For young Willie McBride it all happened again,
A A7 G D
And again, and again, and again, and again.
[Chorus 4]
D A A7 G D
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
A A7 G A
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
G D Bm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
D G A7 D
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
D A A7 G D
Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly?
A A7 G A
Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down?
G D Bm
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
D G A7 D
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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