Tonart: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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How do you do young
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willie mcbride,
Do you mind if I sit here down
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by your graveside,
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And rest for a while 'neath the
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warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day
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and I'm nearly done
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I see by your gravestone
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you were only 19
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When you joined the great fall-in in 1916
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I hope you died well and I
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hope you died clean
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Or young willie mcbride was
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it slow and obscene.
Verse 2
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beat the drum slowly did they
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play the fife lowly
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Did they sound the death march as
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they lowered you down
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Did the band play the last post
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and chorus
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flowers of the forest
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Verse 3
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Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
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In some faithful heart is
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Although you died back in 1916
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In that faithful heart are you forever 19
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Or are you a stranger without even a name
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behind a glass frame
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In an old photograph torn,
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battered and stained
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And faded to yellow in a brown
Verse 4
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Did they beat the drum slowly
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did they play the fife lowly
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Did they sound the death march
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as they lowered you down
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Did the band play the last
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post and chorus
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Did the pipes play the flowers
Interlude 1
of the forest
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Verse 5
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The sun now it shines on the green
There's a warm summer breeze
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makes the red poppies dance
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And look how the sun shines from
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under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbwire,
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there's no guns firing now
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But here in this graveyard it's still
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The countless white crosses stand
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mute in the sand
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To man's blind indifference
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to his fellow man
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To a whole generation that were
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butchered and damned.
Verse 6
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Did they beat the drum slowly
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did they play the fife lowly
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Did they sound the death march
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as they lowered you down
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Did the band play the last
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Cm
post and chorus
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Did the pipes play the flowers
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Verse 7
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Now young willie mcbride
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I can't help wonder why
Do those who lie here
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know why did they die
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Did they believe when they
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answered the call
Did they really believe that
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this war would end wars
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Well the sorrow, the suffering,
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the glory, the pain
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The killing and the dying
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were all done in vain
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Cm
For young willie mcbride it
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all happened again,
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And again and again and
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again and again
Verse 8
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Did they beat the drum slowly
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did they play the fife lowly
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Did they sound the death march
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as they lowered you down
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Did the band play the last
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Cm
post and chorus
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Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
Outro 1
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Cm
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