No Mans Land - Eric Bogle Chords
Chords: GREEN, FIELDS, FRANCE, ERIC, BOGLE, D, Bm, G, Em, A
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THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE – (No Man's Land) - ERIC BOGLE
VERSE 1
D Bm G Em
Well, how do you do young Willie McBride,
A D A
Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave-side,
D Bm G Em
And rest for a while ‘neath the warm summer sun,
A G D
I’ve been walking all day and I’m nearly done.)
D Bm G Em
I see by your gravestone you were only nine-teen
A D A
When you joined the great fallen in 19 – 16
D Bm G Em
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
A G D
Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?
CHORUS:
D A G D
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D A G D
Did the rifles fire o’er you as they lowered you down,
G A
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
D G A D
Did the pipes play the ‘Flowers of the Forest’?
VERSE 2:
D Bm G Em
Did you leave e’re a wife or a sweetheart behind,
A D A
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
D Bm G Em
Although you died back in nineteen sixteen
A G D
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen.
D Bm G Em
Or are you a stranger without even a name
A D A
Enclosed forever behind a glass frame,
D Bm G Em
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained
A G D
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
CHORUS:
D A G D
Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the fife lowly,
D A G D
Did the rifles fire o’er you as they lowered you down,
G A
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus
D G A D
Did the pipes play the ‘Flowers of the Forest’?
VERSE 3:
D Bm G Em
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France,
A D A
There’s a warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance,
D Bm G Em
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds,
A G D
There’s no gas no barbed wire no guns firing now,
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