No Mans Land Chords

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obfyC4Kr2eA
 
[Verse 1]
G                            C        Am
Well, how do you do private William McBride,
       D                       C            G
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
         G                        C          Am
And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
          D                        C          G
I've been walking all day long and I'm nearly done.
  G                               C     Am
I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
         D                             G  D
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
        G                         C             Am
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
   D                      C           G
Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene.
 
[Chorus]
         D                               C              G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,
         D                           C           D
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,
         C                             D
Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,
        G               C             D  G
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.
 
[Verse 2]
        G                      C            Am
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
   D                            C       G
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined,
G                            C          Am
And though you died back in nineteen-sixteen,
    D                        C         G
To that loyal heart are you always nineteen.
   G                          C       Am
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
   D                 G              D
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
      G                        Am
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
    D                      C             G
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.
 
[Chorus]
         D                               C              G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,
         D                           C           D
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,
         C                             D
Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,
        G               C             D  G
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.
 
[Verse 3]
          G                           C               Am
Well, the sun's shining now on these green fields of France,
    D                              C            G
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,
    G                            C          Am
The trenches are vanished, long under the plough,
    D                         C            G
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
    G                           C               Am
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
    D                          C            D
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
   G                           Am
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
      D                         C              G
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.
 
[Chorus]
         D                               C              G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,
         D                           C           D
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,
         C                             D
Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,
        G               C             D  G
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.
 
[Verse 4]
      G                         C        Am
And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride
   D                      C             G
Do all those who lie here know why they died
        G                             C            Am
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
        D                         C             G
Did you really believe that this war would end wars.
    G                          C           Am
The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
    D                           G           D
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
    G                      C          Am
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
     D                      C          G
And again, and again, and again, and again.
 
[Chorus]
         D                               C              G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,
         D                           C           D
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,
         C                             D
Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,
        G               C             D  G
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.
         C                             D
Did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,
        G               C             D  G
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.
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