Karaoke Track: Green Fields Of France by The Fureys & Davey Arthur (Sing to the World) - Karaoke Nerds

The Green Fielldls

Of France

Made Famous Ban
THE FUREYS 8( DAVEY ARTHUR

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Well, how do you do
young Willie McBride?

Well, how do you do
young Willie McBride?

Do you mind if

I sit here, down by
your graveside?

And rest for a

while, 'neath the warm
summer sun

I've been walking all

day, and I'm nearly done

I see by your

gravestone, you were
only nineteen

When you joined the

great fallen in nineteen
sixteen

I hope you died well,
and I hope you died

clean. Or young Willy
Mcbride

Was it slow

and obscene?
Did they beat

The drums slowly, did
they play the fife lowly.
Did they sound the
death march as they
lowered you down?

And did the band

play 'The Last Post'
and chorus?

Did the pipes

play 'The Flowers Of
The Forest'?

Did you leave a dear

wife, or a sweetheart
behind?

In some faithful

heart, is your memory
ensh ned?

Although you died back

in nineteen-sixteen

In that faithful

heart, are you forever
nineteen?

Or are you a stranger,

without even a name?

Enclosed then forever,

behind the glass pane

In an old photograph,

torn, battered and
stained

And faded to yellow in

a brown leather frame.
Did they beat

The drums slowly, did
they play the fife lowly.
Did they sound the
death march as they
lowered you down?

And did the band

play 'The Last Post'
and chorus?

Did the pipes

play 'The Flowers Of
The Forest'?

The sun, now it

shines, on the green
fields of France

There's a warm summer
breeze, it makes the red
poppies dance

And look how the sun
shines from under the
clouds. There's no gas,
no barb wire. There's
no guns firing now

But here in this

graveyard, that's still
no-man's land

The countless

white crosses, stand
mute in the sand

To man's blind

indifference to his
fellow man

To a whole
generation, that were
butchered and damned

Did they beat
the drums slowly, did
they play the fife lowly.
Did they sound the
death march as they
lowered you down?

And did the band

play 'The Last Post'
and chorus?

Did the pipes

play 'The Flowers Of
The Forest'?

Ah, young Willy McBride

I can't help, wonder why

Do those that lie

here, know why that
they died?

And did they believe

when they answered
the call?

Did they really

believe, that this war
would end wars?

Well the sorrow,

the suffering, the glory,
the pain

The killing and dying,

were all done in vain

For young Willy McBride

it all happened again

And again, and again,

and again, and again

Did they beat
the drums slowly, did
they play the fife lowly.
Did they sound the
death march as they
lowered you down?

And did the band

play 'The Last Post'
and chorus?

Did the pipes
play 'The Flowers Of

The Forest'?
Did they beat

The drums slowly, did
they play the fife lowly.
Did they sound the
death march as they
lowered you down?

And did the band

play 'The Last Post'
and chorus?

Did the pipes

play 'The Flowers Of
The Forest'?

Title: Green Fields Of France
Artist: The Fureys & Davey Arthur
Brand: Sing to the World
Code: STTW2904-08
Genre: irish folk
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