Tonalité : G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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you do,
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Am
Private William McBride?
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Do you mind if I sit here down
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Am
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by your graveside?
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I'll rest for a while in the
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warm summer sun,
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I've been walking all day
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and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone
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you were only nineteen,
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When you joined the Gloriots
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Am
fallen in 1916.
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I hope you died quick
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Am
and I hope you died clean
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For William McBride was it
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slow and obscene
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Did they beat the drums slowly?
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Did they sound the pipe lowly?
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Did the rifles furrow you
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G
as they lowered you down?
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D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
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Am
Did the pipes play the flowers of
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the forest?
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Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
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In some loyal heart
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D
is your memory enshrined
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C
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And though you died back in 1916
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In that faithful heart are
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you always nineteen?
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Or are you just a stranger
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without even a name
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Forever enclosed behind a glass frame
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Of an old photograph,
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torn and tattered and stained
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And fading to yellow in a
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brown leather frame
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Did they beat the drums slowly?
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G
Did they sound the fife lowly?
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Did the rifles sparrow you
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as they lowered you down?
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D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
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Am
D
Did the pipes play the flowers of
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C
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D
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the forest?
The sun it shines down
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o 'er these green fields of France
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The warm wind blows gently
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Am
D
and the red poppies dance
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The trenches are banished
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now under the plough
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No gas, no barbed wire,
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no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard
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it's still no man's land,
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And the countless white crosses
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Am
D
in mute witness stand
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To man's blind indifference
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Am
to his fellow man,
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And a whole generation that was
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butchered and damned
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Did they beat the drum slowly?
C
G
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
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Did the rifles fire on you
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G
as they lowered you down?
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D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
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Am
Did the pines play the flowers
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D
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of the forest?
I can't help but wonder now,
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Willie McBride,
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Do all those who lie here
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know just why they died?
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G
Did you really believe them
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when they told you the cause?
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Did you really believe
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G
that this war would end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow,
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Am
the glory, the shame
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The killing, the dying,
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Am
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it was all done in vain
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Am
For Willie McBride it's all happened again
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And again, and again,
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G
and again, and again
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Did they beat the drums slowly?
C
G
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
Am
Did the rifles furrow you
D
G
as they lowered you down?
Am
Did the bugles sing
D
the last post in chorus?
C
Did the pipes play
Am
D
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the flowers of the forest?
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Am
D
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Am
D
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Am
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