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NO MAN'S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
- AKA: The Green Fields Of France
- Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy
- Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones
- Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell
- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G
- Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
G * C AmWell, how Do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
D * G DDo you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
G * C *And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
D * C G (*)I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done
* * Am *And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
D7 * G DWhen you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
G * Am *Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
D * C GOr Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS:
D * C GDid they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
D * C GDid the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down
C * D *Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
G C D GDid the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
G * C AmAnd did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
D * G DIn some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
G * C *And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
D * C G (*)To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
* * Am *Or are you a stranger without even a name
D7 * G DEnshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
G * Am *In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
D * C GAnd fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
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NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)
G * C AmThe sun's shining now on these green fields of France
D * G DThe warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
G * C *The trenches have vanished, long under the plough
D * C G (*)No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
* * Am *But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land
D7 * G DThe countless white crosses in mute witness stand
G * Am *To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man
D * C GTo a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
G * C AmAnd I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride
D * G DDo all those who lie here know why they died
G * C *Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause
D * C G (*)Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars
* * Am *Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
D7 * G DThe killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
G * Am *For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain
D * C GAnd a-gain and a-gain and a-gain and a-gain
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
NOTES:
- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change
- Period (.) = eighth-note rest
- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest
- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar
- Submitted: 94-02-06
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