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The Green Fields of France
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Lyrics
well how do you do
young willy mc bride?
do you mind if i sit here
down by your graveside?
and rest for a while
in the warm summer sun
i've been walking all day
and i'm nearly done
i see by your gravestone
you were only nineteen
when you joined
the great falling
in nineteen sixteen
i hope you died well
and i hope you died clean
or young willy mc bride
was it slow and obscene?
did they beat the drum slowly?
did they play the fifes lowly
did they sound
the death march
as they lowered you down?
and did the band
play the last post
on chorus
and did the pipes
play the flowers of the forest
did you leave
here a wife
or a sweetheart behind?
in some faithfull heart
is your memory enshrined?
and though you died back
in nineteen sixteen
in that faith full heart
are you forever nineteen?
or are you a stranger
without even a name
enclosed and forever
behind a glass frame?
in an old photograph
torn battered and stained
and fading to yellow
in a brown leather frame
did they beat the drum slowly?
did they play the fifes lowly
did they sound
the death march
as they lowered you down?
did the band play the last post
on chorus
and did the pipes
play the flowers of the forest
the sun now shines
on the green fields of france
there's a warm summer breeze
that makes the red
poppies dance
and look how the sun
shines from under
the clouds
there's no gas no barbed wire
there's no gun firing now
but here in this graveyard
it's still no mans land
the countless white crosses
stand mute in the sand
to man's blind indefference
to his fellow man
to a whole generation
that were butchered
and dammed
did they beat the drum slowly?
did they play the fifes lowly
did they sound
the death march
as they lowered you down?
and did the band
play the last post
on chorus
did the pipes
play the flowers of the forest
now young willy mc bride
i can't help wonder why
do those that lie here
know why did they die?
and did they believe
when they answered the call
did they really believe
that this war would end wars?
oh the sorrow the suffering
the glory the pain
the killing and dying
were all done in vain
for young willy mc bride
it all happened again
and again and again
and again and again
did they beat the drum slowly?
did they play the fifes lowly
did they sound
the death march
as they lowered you down?
did the band play the last post
on chorus
did the pipes
play the flowers of the forest
did they beat the drum slowly?
did they play the fifes lowly
did they sound
the death march
as they lowered you down?
did the band play the last post
on chorus
and did the pipes
play the flowers of the forest
Details
- Duration : 5:56
- Key : F
- Genre : Specialty
- Year released : 1979
- Language : English
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