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Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
Key: G
SOL DO LAm
Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
RE SOL RE
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
SOL DO
And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
RE DO SOL ( )
I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done
LAm
And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
RE7 SOL RE
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
SOL LAm
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
RE DO SOL
Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS
RE DO SOL
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
RE DO SOL
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down
DO RE
Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
SOL DO RE SOL
Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
SOL DO LAm
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
RE SOL RE
In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
SOL DO
And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
RE DO SOL ( )
To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
LAm
Or are you a stranger without even a name
RE7 SOL RE
Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
SOL LAm
In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
RE DO SOL
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
SOL DO LAm
The sun's shining now on these green fields of France
RE SOL RE
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
SOL DO
The trenches have vanished, long under the plough
RE DO SOL ( )
No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
LAm
But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land
RE7 SOL RE
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
SOL LAm
To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man
RE DO SOL
To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
SOL DO LAm
And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride
RE SOL RE
Do all those who lie here know why they died
SOL DO
Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause
RE DO SOL ( )
Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars
LAm
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
RE7 SOL RE
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
SOL LAm
For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain
RE DO SOL
And 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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