The Green Fields Of France-The Fureys

[ti:The Green Fields Of France] [ar:The Fureys] [al:The Fureys & Davy Arthur Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Green Fields Of France - The Fureys [00:06.67]Well how do you do Private William McBride [00:11.66] [00:12.47]Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside [00:17.77] [00:18.78]And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun [00:23.83] [00:24.64]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done [00:29.94] [00:32.25]And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 [00:37.57] [00:38.38]When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916 [00:43.62] [00:45.56]I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean [00:51.23] [00:51.74]Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene [00:57.71]Did they Beat the drum slowly did the play the pipes lowly [01:04.03]Did the rifles firoer you as they lowered you down [01:09.78] [01:11.52]Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus [01:16.40] [01:17.90]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [01:23.53] [01:28.76]And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind [01:34.20] [01:35.13]In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined [01:40.19] [01:41.25]And though you died back in 1916 [01:45.76] [01:47.38]To that loyal heart are you forever 19 [01:52.18] [01:54.68]Or are you a stranger without even a name [02:00.05] [02:01.23]Forever enshrined behind some glass pane [02:06.47] [02:08.15]In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained [02:14.27]And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame [02:20.16]Did they Beat the drum slowly did the play the pipes lowly [02:26.53]Did the rifles firoer you as they lowered you down [02:32.14] [02:34.08]Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus [02:38.95] [02:40.46]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [02:46.50] [02:54.71]The sun's shining down on these green fields of France [02:59.95] [03:00.63]The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance [03:06.07] [03:07.01]The trenches have vanished long under the plow [03:11.97] [03:12.71]No gas and no barbed wire no guns firing now [03:18.21] [03:20.65]But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land [03:26.27] [03:27.08]The countless white crosses in mute witness stand [03:31.95] [03:33.32]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man [03:39.25] [03:40.37]And a whole generation who were butchered and damned [03:46.18]Did they Beat the drum slowly did the play the pipes lowly [03:51.74] [03:52.42]Did the rifles firoer you as they lowered you down [03:57.91] [04:00.10]Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus [04:05.03] [04:06.54]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [04:12.59] [04:17.59]And I can't help but wonder no Willie McBride [04:22.79] [04:23.91]Do all those who lie here know why they died [04:29.10] [04:30.22]Did you really believe them when they told you The Cause [04:36.84]Did you really believe that this war would end wars [04:41.46] [04:43.47]Well the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame [04:48.67] [04:49.86]The killing the dying it was all done in vain [04:55.50] [04:56.93]For Willie McBride it all happened again [05:02.43] [05:02.99]And again and again and again and again [05:08.98]Did they Beat the drum slowly did the play the pipes lowly [05:15.36]Did the rifles firoer you as they lowered you down [05:20.78] [05:23.18]Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus [05:28.03] [05:29.71]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [05:35.64] [05:36.20]Did they Beat the drum slowly did the play the pipes lowly [05:41.82]Did the rifles firoer you as they lowered you down [05:47.68] [05:49.57]Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus [05:54.50] [05:55.82]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest