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No Mans Land
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Eric Bogle's classic anti-war song, No Man's Land, aka Green Fields of France, aka Willie McBride. Chords and lyrics below. • Support this channel on Patreon: / jessefergusonmusic • Jesse on Apple Music: / jesse-ferguson • Jesse on YouTube Music: / jesse ferguson - topic • Jesse on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5heCd... • Jesse on Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Shanties-Whali... • Jesse's Website: http://www.jessefergusonmusic.com • Jesse's Facebook: / bardofcornwall • No Man’s Land • (Eric Bogle [1976], arrang. J. Ferguson, Dec. 2013) • 3/4, 132 bpm • V1. • G Em C Am • Well, how do you do, Private Willie McBride? • D C G • Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside • G Em C Am • and rest for awhile in the warm summer sun? • D C G • I've been walkin’ all day now, and I'm nearly done. • G Em C Am • Well, I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen • D C D D7 • when you joined the dead heroes in 1916. • G Em C Am • Well, I hope you died quickly, and I hope you died clean, • D C G • or, young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? • Chorus: • D • Did they beat the drum slowly, • C G • did they play the fife lowly, • D C D D7 • did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? • C G Em • Did the band play The Last Post in chorus? • G C D G • Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest? • V2. • And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? • In some faithful heart is your mem’ry enshrined? • And, though you died back in 1916, • in some faithful heart are you forever nineteen? • Or are you a stranger without even a name, • enshrined forever behind a glass pane, • in an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained, • and fading to yellow in a brown-leather frame? • Chorus: • V3. • 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 in mute witness stand • to man's blind indifference to his fellow man, • and a whole generation that was butchered and damned. • Chorus: • V4. • Ah, young Willie McBride, I can’t help wonder why: • do those who lie with you know why they died? • Did they really believe when they answered the call? • Did they really believe that this war would end wars? • For the sorrow, the suff’ring, the glory, the shame, • the killing, the dying were all done in vain. • For, young Willie McBride, it’s all happened again, • and again, and again, and again, and again.* • *speak this line, subdued. • Chorus: [draw out final two lines] • Outro: G Em C Am D D7 C G
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