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Lyrics of The Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land) by Dropkick Murphys
verse
Oh, how do you do, young Willy McBride?
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
verse
And I see by your gravestone, you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean
Oh, Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?
chorus
Did they beat the drums slowly? Did the play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
verse
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart, you're forever 19
verse
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
chorus
Did they beat the drums slowly? Did the play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
verse
The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
verse
But here in this graveyard that's still no man's land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
chorus
Did they beat the drums slowly? Did the play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
bridge
And I can't help but wonder, oh, Willy McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, and dying, it was all done in vain
Oh, Willy McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
chorus
Did they beat the drums slowly? Did the play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
Writer(s): Eric Bogle
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The Warrior's Code
Album • 2005 • 15 tracks
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The Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land)
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