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Lyrics for THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE by Paddy Schmidt:
| | | Artist: | Paddy Schmidt |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 219 | | | | Lyrics: | Well how do you do, young Willie McBride,
do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside.
And rest for a while ´neath the warm summer sun.
I´ve been working all day and
I´m nearly done.
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen,
when you joined the
great fallen in nineteen-sixteen.
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean.
Or
Willie McBride, was it slow and unseen.
CHORUS: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they
play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death-march as they lowered you down?
And 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 faithful heart is your
memory enshrined
Although you died back in nineteen sixteen
In that faithful heart are
you forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed and forever
behind the glass frame
In a old photograph, torn and battered and stained
And fade to
yellow in a brown leather frame.
CHORUS
The sun now it shines on the green
fields of France
There´s a warm summer breeze, makes the red poppies dance
And 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 stand mute in the sand
To man´s blind indifference to his fellow man
To a
whole generation that were butchered and damned.
CHORUS
Now young Willie
McBride I can´t help but wonder why
Do all those that lie here know why did they died
And did they believe when they answered the cause
Did they really believe that this war
would end wars
For the sorrows, the suffering, the glory. the pain
The killing and dying
was all done in vain
For young Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and
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