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