The Green Fields of France-Men They Couldn't Hang

[ti:The Green Fields of France] [ar:Men They Couldn't Hang] [al:The Shooting] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Green Fields of France - Men They Couldn't Hang [00:36.09]Well how do you do now you Willie MacBride [00:40.82] [00:44.75]Do you mind if I sit here down by your side [00:50.37] [00:54.16]And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun [00:58.72] [01:03.20]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done [01:07.88] [01:12.37]Well I see by your gravestone you was only nineteen [01:16.69] [01:21.59]When you joined the great fallen of nineteen sixteen [01:26.63] [01:30.83]Well I hope you died well and I hope you died clean [01:35.68] [01:40.15]Or Willie MacBride was it low and obscene [01:45.22]Did they beat the drums slowly [01:47.80]And play the fife lowly [01:50.44]Did they sound the death march [01:53.08]As they lowered you down [01:55.81] [01:59.82]Did the band sound the last post and chorus [02:04.41] [02:07.42]Did they pipe the flowers of the forest [02:12.97] [02:16.97]Did you leave a young wife or a sweetheart behind [02:21.35] [02:25.99]In some faithful heart are your memories enshrined [02:30.89] [02:35.17]For although you died back in nineteen sixteen [02:39.99] [02:44.43]In that faithful heart you're forever nineteen [02:49.38] [02:53.90]Or are you a stranger without even a name [02:58.55] [03:03.02]Enclosed forever behind a glass pane [03:07.86] [03:12.18]In an old photograph tor battered and stained [03:17.22] [03:21.90]Faded to yellow with brown leather frayed [03:26.29]Did they beat the drums slowly [03:29.17]And play the fife lowly [03:32.38]Did they sound the death march [03:34.50]As they lowered you down [03:36.71] [03:41.21]Did the band sound the last post and chorus [03:46.48] [03:48.41]Did they pipe the flowers of the forest [03:54.25] [03:58.34]As the sun beats down [04:00.51]On the green fields of France [04:03.26] [04:07.41]There's a soft summer breeze [04:09.78]Makes the red poppies dance [04:12.19] [04:16.78]And see how the sun shines from under the clouds [04:21.56] [04:25.43]There's no gas there's no barbed wire [04:28.05]No guns firing now [04:30.49] [04:34.74]Oh but here in this grave yard [04:37.16]It's still no man's land [04:39.18] [04:43.94]The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand [04:48.69] [04:52.65]And through man's blind [04:54.34]Indifference to his fellow man [04:57.43] [05:01.71]To a whole generation [05:04.42]Who were butchered and damned [05:07.02]Did they beat the drums slowly [05:09.43]And play the fife lowly [05:12.21]Did they sound the death march [05:14.73]As they lowered you down [05:17.20] [05:20.23]Did the band sound the last post and chorus [05:26.31] [05:29.31]Did they pipe the flowers of the forest [05:34.60] [06:06.18]Did they really believe tat this war could end wars [06:11.28] [06:15.35]Oh the sorrow the suffering the glory the pain [06:19.95] [06:24.41]The killing and dying 'twas all done in vain [06:30.49] [06:33.53]For Willie MacBride oh it happened again [06:38.19] [06:42.72]And again and again and again and again [06:47.28]Did they beat the drums slowly [06:50.36]And play the fife lowly [06:53.14]Did they sound the death march [06:55.64]As they lowered you down [06:58.54] [07:02.36]Did the band sound the last post and chorus [07:07.54] [07:10.25]Did they pipe the flowers of the forest