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NO MAN'S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D - AKA: The Green Fields Of France - Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy - Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones - Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell - Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G - Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
* Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride * Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side * * And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun * (*) I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done * * * And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen * When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen * * Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean * Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS: * Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly * Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down * * Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
* And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind * In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined * * And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen * (*) To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen * * * Or are you a stranger without even a name * Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane * * In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained * And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
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NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)
* The sun's shining now on these green fields of France * The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance * * The trenches have vanished, long under the plough * (*) No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now * * * But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land * The countless white crosses in mute witness stand * * To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man * To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
* And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride * Do all those who lie here know why they died * * Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause * (*) Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars * * * Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame * The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain * * For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain * And a-gain and a-gain and a-gain and a-gain
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
NOTES: - Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change - Period (.) = eighth-note rest - Initial underline (_) = half-note rest - Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar
