No Man’s Land-Peter, Paul & Mary

[ti:No Man’s Land] [ar:Peter, Paul & Mary] [al:Flowers And Stones] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No Man’s Land - Peter, Paul & Mary (彼得、保罗与玛丽三重唱) [00:16.54]Well how do you do Private William McBride [00:22.00] [00:22.77]Do you mind if I sit here [00:25.56]Down by your graveside [00:26.04] [00:28.79]I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun [00:33.86] [00:34.63]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done [00:39.99] [00:42.04]And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 [00:48.02]When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916 [00:54.03]And I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean [00:59.60] [01:00.46]Or William McBride was it slow and obscene [01:05.88] [01:07.44]Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the pipes lowly [01:13.66]Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down [01:18.99] [01:19.53]Did the bugle play the last post and chorus [01:24.48] [01:25.42]Did the pipes play the flowers o' the forest [01:30.64] [01:43.45]Well the sun it shines now on these green fields of France [01:49.59] [01:50.15]The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance [01:55.49] [01:56.35]The trenches have vanished now under the plow [02:01.44] [02:02.24]No gas and no barbed wire no guns fire now [02:07.81] [02:09.39]For here in this graveyard it's still no man's land [02:15.54]And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand [02:21.23] [02:21.89]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man [02:27.06] [02:27.63]And a whole generation who butchered and d**ned [02:33.34] [02:35.05]Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the pipes lowly [02:41.15]Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down [02:46.90]Did the bugle play the last post and chorus [02:52.90]Did the pipes play the flowers o' the forest [02:58.93] [03:00.44]Well I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride [03:06.26] [03:07.02]Do all those who lie here know just why they died [03:12.94]Did you really believe them when they told you the 'cause [03:18.12] [03:18.93]Did you really believe this war would end all wars [03:24.62] [03:25.96]But the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame [03:32.21]The killing the dying it was all done in vain [03:37.50] [03:38.08]For William McBride it's all happened again [03:43.36] [03:43.90]And again and again and again and again [03:50.41] [03:51.14]Did they beat the drum slowly did they sound the pipes lowly [03:57.19]Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down [04:02.90]Did the bugle play the last post and chorus [04:08.91]Did the pipes play the flowers o' the forest