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Green Fields Of France Submitted by DJ CormierGWell how do you Ddo younCg WilliAme McBride, Do you Gmind if I Dsit here down by your graEmveside, And rest for a Dwhile neath tChe warm sumDmer sun, I've been Gworking allD day anCd I'm nearlGy done.G D C Am I see by your gravestone you were only 19,When you Djoined the great Cfallen in D1916, I Ghope you died Dwell and IC hope you died clAmean, Or young DWillie McBride was iCt slow anGd obscene.(CHORUS:)DDid they beat tDhe drum slowly, did they plCay the fife loGwly, Did they Dsound the dead Dmarch, as theyC lowered youD down, Did the Cband play the lDast post and cGhoruEms, Did the Cpipes play the CFlowers of the DForeGst.Did you leave ere a wife or a sweetheart behind, In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined, Although you died back in 1916, In that faithful heart are you forever 19. Or are you a stranger without even a name, Enclosed in forever behind a glass frame, In an old photograph all torn battered and stained, And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame. CHO: The sun now it shines on the green fields of France, There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance, And look how the sun shines from under the trees, 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. CHO: Ah, young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why, Do all those who lie here know why did they die, And did they believe when they answered the call, Did they really believe that this war would end wars. Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain, The killing and dieing were all done in vain, For young Willie McBride it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again.