No Man's Land (1992 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:No Man's Land (1992 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:The Man Who Steadies The Lead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No Man's Land (1992 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:06.28]Well how do you do private william mcbride [00:09.27] [00:10.30]Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside [00:13.66] [00:14.72]I'll rest for awhile neath the warm summer sun [00:17.84] [00:18.99]Been walking all day mate and I'm nearly done [00:22.15] [00:23.96]And I see by your gravestone you're only nineteen [00:27.23] [00:28.18]When you joined the fallen in nineteen sixteen [00:31.52] [00:32.50]Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean [00:35.99] [00:36.92]Or willy mcbride was it slow and obscene [00:40.11] [00:41.72]Did they beat the drums slowly [00:43.60] [00:44.25]Did they sound the fife lowly [00:45.68] [00:46.27]Did the rifles fire o'er ye over as they lowered you down [00:50.19] [00:51.26]Did the bugles sing the last post and chorus [00:54.78] [00:55.89]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [00:59.26] [01:03.44]Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind [01:06.49] [01:07.55]In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined [01:10.77] [01:11.57]And though you died back in nineteen sixteen [01:14.87] [01:15.87]To that loyal heart are you always nineteen [01:18.83] [01:21.35]Or are you a stranger without a name [01:24.04] [01:25.48]Forever enshrined behind some glass pane [01:28.64] [01:29.37]In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained [01:33.01] [01:33.65]And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame [01:37.03] [01:38.57]Did they beat the drums slowly [01:41.18]Did they sound the fife lowly [01:42.97]Did the rifles fire o'er ye over as they lowered you down [01:46.68] [01:48.12]Did the bugles sing the last post and chorus [01:51.30] [01:52.58]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [01:55.98] [02:03.15]And the sun's shining now on these green fields of france [02:06.82] [02:07.57]The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance [02:11.22] [02:11.77]The trenches have vanished long under the plough [02:14.79] [02:15.69]No gas and no barb wire no guns firing now [02:19.05] [02:21.31]But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land [02:24.54] [02:25.54]The countless white crosses in mute witness stand [02:28.24] [02:29.37]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man [02:32.40] [02:33.30]And a whole generation who were butchered and damned [02:36.47] [02:38.14]Did they beat the drums slowly [02:39.97] [02:40.54]Did they sound the fife lowly [02:42.02] [02:42.55]Did the rifles fire o'er ye over as they lowered you down [02:46.28] [02:47.68]Did the bugles sing the last post and chorus [02:50.71] [02:52.12]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [02:55.56] [02:59.43]And I can't help but wonder now willy mcbride [03:02.54] [03:03.80]Do all those who lie here know why they died [03:07.05] [03:07.80]Did you really believe when they told you the cause [03:11.26] [03:11.90]Did you really believe that this war would end wars [03:15.53] [03:17.08]Well the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame [03:20.32] [03:21.36]The killing and dying was all done in vain [03:24.56] [03:25.46]For young willy mcbride it's all happened again [03:28.38] [03:29.38]And again and again and again and again and again [03:32.71] [03:34.24]Did they beat the drums slowly [03:36.56]Did they sound the fife lowly [03:38.58]Did the rifles fire o'er ye over as they lowered you down [03:42.39] [03:43.67]Did the bugles sing the last post and chorus [03:46.64] [03:48.06]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [03:51.56] [03:53.00]Did the bugles sing the last post and chorus [03:56.23] [03:57.48]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest