Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
Key: G
Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
D G DDo you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
G CAnd I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done
AmAnd I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
D7 G DWhen you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
D C GOr Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down
C DDid the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
G C D GDid the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
G C Am
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
G CAnd though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
D C G ( )To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
D7 G DEnshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
G AmIn an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
The sun's shining now on these green fields of France
D G DThe warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
G CThe trenches have vanished, long under the plough
No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
AmBut here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land
D7 G DThe countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man
D C GTo a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride
D G DDo all those who lie here know why they died
G CDid you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause
Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars
AmWell the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
D7 G DThe killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain
D C GAnd a-gain and a-gain and a-gain and a-gain
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
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