The Green Fields Of France-The Fureys

[ti:The Green Fields Of France (Live)] [ar:The Fureys/Mundy] [al:The Best That Is Irish] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Green Fields Of France - The Fureys [00:06.67]Well how do you do young Willy mc bride [00:11.58] [00:12.43]Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside [00:17.62] [00:18.76]And rest for a while in the warm summer sun [00:23.51] [00:24.47]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done [00:29.77] [00:32.30]I see by your gravestone your were only nineteen [00:37.67] [00:38.46]When you joined the great falling in nineteen sixteen [00:43.58] [00:45.61]Well I hope you died well and I hope you died clean [00:51.10] [00:51.74]Or young Willy mc bride was it slow and obscene [00:57.17] [00:57.86]Did they beat the drum slowly did they played the fifes lowly [01:04.04]Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down [01:09.72] [01:11.56]Did the band play the last post and chorus [01:16.04] [01:18.04]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [01:24.62] [01:28.76]Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind [01:33.99] [01:35.20]In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined [01:40.15] [01:41.35]And though you died back in nineteen fifteen [01:46.16] [01:47.43]In some faith full heart are you forever nineteen [01:52.26] [01:54.82]Or are you a stranger without even a name [02:00.01] [02:01.17]Enshrined forever behind a glass frame [02:06.17] [02:08.06]In an old photograph torn battered and stained [02:14.27]And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame [02:19.61] [02:20.34]Did they beat the drum slowly did they played the fifes lowly [02:26.50]Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down [02:32.15] [02:34.19]Did the band play the last post and chorus [02:38.83] [02:40.60]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [02:47.97] [02:54.74]Well the sun now it shines on the green fields of France [02:59.75] [03:00.75]There's a warm summer breeze it makes the red poppies dance [03:05.89] [03:07.17]And look how the sun shines from under the clouds [03:12.04] [03:12.83]There's no gas no barbed wire there's no gun firing now [03:18.31] [03:20.76]But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land [03:26.26] [03:27.14]The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand [03:32.07] [03:34.20]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man [03:39.51] [03:40.43]To a whole generation that were butchered and dammed [03:46.15]Did they beat the drum slowly did they plaed the fifes lowly [03:52.50]Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down [03:58.13] [04:00.15]Did the band play the last post and chorus [04:05.04] [04:06.64]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [04:14.18] [04:17.58]Well Willy mc bride I can't help wonder why [04:22.71] [04:23.99]Do those that lie here know why did they die [04:28.77] [04:30.16]And did they believe when they answered the call [04:35.03] [04:36.04]Did they really believe that this war would end war [04:41.52] [04:43.60]Well the sorrow the suffering the glory the pain [04:48.76] [04:49.91]The killing the dying was all done in vain [04:54.91] [04:57.00]For young Willy mc bride it all happened again [05:02.75] [05:03.28]And again and again and again and again [05:08.38] [05:09.06]Did they beat the drum slowly did they played the fifes lowly [05:15.45]Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down [05:21.14] [05:23.15]Did the band play the last post and chorus [05:27.89] [05:29.37]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest [05:35.75]Did they beat the drum slowly did they played the fifes lowly [05:41.85]Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down [05:47.67] [05:49.62]Did the band play the last post and chorus [05:54.29] [05:55.92]Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest