The Green Fields of France
The Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell
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Well how do you do, young Willie McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
And rest for a while near 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 Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Did you leave any wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in nineteen sixteen
In some faithful heart are you forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
Enclosed down forever behind a glass frame
In an old photograph torn tattered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance
Look how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no-man's land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Ah, young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why
If those who lie here know why they had died
Did they believe when they answered the call
Did they really believe that this war would end war?
The sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing, the dying, was all that in vain?
Or young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again and again and again and again
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?