Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields of France lyrics
[Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields of France lyrics]
Oh how do you do, young Willie 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
And I see by your gravestone
You were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well I hope you died quick
And I hope you died clean or Willie McBride
Was is it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
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 nineteen
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
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
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
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
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And I can't help but wonder oh Willie 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 Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
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
And I see by your gravestone
You were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well I hope you died quick
And I hope you died clean or Willie McBride
Was is it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
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 nineteen
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
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
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
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
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And I can't help but wonder oh Willie 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 Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?