The Green Fields Of France lyrics

Artist	Dropkick Murphys
Album(s)	The Warrior's Code

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 fall-in in nineteen-sixteen
Well I hoped you died quick, and I hoped you died clean
Or young willie mcbride, was 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
And 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 nineteen-sixteen
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

Chorus: beat the drums slowly

The sun's 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 mans 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

Chorus: beat the drums slowly

And I can't help but wonder oh willie mcbride
Do all those that 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 suffring', the sorrow, the glory, the pain
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!

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