John Mcdermott - The Green Fields Of France 
Eric Bogel: https://.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM

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 19
When you joined the glorious fall-in in 1916
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBbride was it slow and obscene.

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 they sound the death march as they lowered you down]
Did the bugle play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916
To that faithful heart are you always 19

Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind sp,e glass frame
In an old photograph torn, amd tattered and stained
And fadomg to yellow in a brown leather frame.

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 they sound the death march as they lowered you down]
Did the bugle sing the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

Well the sun's shining now on thesae green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the (...)
[And look how the sun shines from under the clouds]
No gas and no barbwire 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 indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.

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 they sound the death march as they lowered you down]
Did the bugle sing the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride
[Now young Willie McBride I can't help wonder why]
Do all those who lie here know why did they died
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
[Did they believe when they answered the call]
Did they really believe that this war would end war

Well the suffering, teh sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing ... the dying ... it was all done in vain
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
And again and again and again and again

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 they sound the death march as they lowered you down]
Did the bugle play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

Did the bugle sing the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest