Green Fields Of France Uke tab by Dropkick Murphys

6 Chords used in the song: C, Am, Fm, D7, G, D

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Year:  2005
Difficulty: 
3.83
(Intermediate)
Key: G, EmChords
C C               Am Am       Fm Fm      D7 D7
Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
G G Fm Fm C C
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
G G Fm Fm C C
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
G G Fm Fm C C G G
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
C C Am Am D7 D7
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
G G Fm Fm C C
Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.


Chorus:

C C G G
Did they beat the drum slowly,
Fm Fm C C
Did they play the fife lowly,
G G Fm Fm G G
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
Fm Fm C C Am Am
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
C C Fm Fm G G C C
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.


C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
G G Fm Fm C C
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,
Am Am Fm Fm D D
And though you died back in 1916,
G G Fm Fm C C
To that loyal heart you're forever 19.
C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
G G Fm Fm C C G G
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,
C C Am Am D7 D7
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,
G G Fm Fm C C
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.


Chorus

C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,
G G Fm Fm C C
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,
Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
G G Fm Fm C C
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
G G Fm Fm C C G G
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
C C Am Am D7 D7
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
G G Fm Fm C C
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.


Chorus

C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
G G Fm Fm C C
Do all those who lie here know why they die,
Am Am Fm Fm C C
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
G G Fm Fm C C
Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
C C Am Am Fm Fm D7 D7
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
G G Fm Fm C C G G
The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
C C Am Am D7 D7
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
G G Fm Fm C C
And again, and again, and again, and again.

Uke tab by , 17 Aug 2009

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