Green Fields Of France-The High Kings

[ti:Green Fields Of France] [ar:The High Kings] [al:Live In Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Green Fields Of France - The High Kings [00:37.44]Well how do you do young Willy McBride [00:42.25]Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside [00:48.06]And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun [00:52.70]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done [00:59.91]I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen [01:04.40]When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen [01:11.46]I hope you died well [01:13.82]And I hope you died clean [01:16.40]Oh young Willy McBride was is it slow and obscene [01:21.83]Did they beat the drums slowly [01:24.77]Did they play the fife lowly [01:27.58]Did they sound the death march as [01:30.09]They lowered you down [01:34.33]Did the band play the Last Post in chorus [01:39.82]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [01:49.68]Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind [01:55.03]In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined [02:00.38]Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen [02:05.87]In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen [02:12.58]Or are you a stranger without even a name [02:17.39]Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane [02:24.05]In an old photograph torn battered and stained [02:29.94]And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame [02:35.15]Did they beat the drums slowly [02:38.10]Did they play the fife lowly [02:40.99]Did they sound the death march as [02:43.62]They lowered you down [02:47.97]Did the band play the Last Post in chorus [02:53.39]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [03:03.38]The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France [03:08.37]There's a warm summer breeze [03:10.83]That makes the red poppies dance [03:14.51]And look how the sun shines from under the clouds [03:19.53]There's no gas no barbed wire there's no gun firing now [03:24.41] [03:26.96]But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land [03:31.73]The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand [03:39.12]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man [03:44.00]To a whole generation that were butchered and damned [03:49.36]Did they beat the drums slowly [03:52.38]Did they play the fife lowly [03:55.22]Did they sound the death march as [03:57.77]They lowered you down [04:02.26]Did the band play the Last Post in chorus [04:07.78]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest [04:17.93]Now young Willy McBride I can't help but wonder why [04:23.50]Do those that lie here know why they died [04:29.05]And did they believe when they answered the call [04:33.93]Did they really believe that this war would end wars [04:41.07]For the sorrow the suffering the glory the shame [04:46.50]The killing and dying were all done in vain [04:52.50]For young Willy McBride it all happened again [04:58.24]And again and again and again and again [05:03.78]Did they beat the drums slowly [05:06.63]Did they play the fife lowly [05:09.53]Did they sound the death march as [05:12.11]They lowered you down [05:16.43]Did the band play the Last Post in chorus [05:21.92]Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest