Video Green Fields Of France de Furey Bruther 2024 Lyrics Lyrics

Furey Bruther - Green Fields Of France Lyrics

Well how do you do young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if i sit here down by your grave sid?e
And rest for a while beneath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day and i'm nearly done
i see by your grave stone you were only nineteen
When you join the great falling in nineteen sixteen
I hope you died well and i hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

Did you leave a wife or a sweet heart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory in shrine
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 and forever behind the glass frame
In an old photograph torned battered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame

Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did the play the fife lowly?
Did they play the death march as they lowered you down?
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 is a warm summer breeze it makes the red poppies dance
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
There is no gas,no barbed wire, there is no gun firing now
But here in this grave yard its 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 drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

Ah young Willie McBride i cant help wonder why
Do those that lie here know why you didn't die
And did they belive 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 Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again

Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
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?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?