GEmCAmE|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|------3---3-----|------0---0-----|------1---1-----|------1---1-----|
G|----0---0---0---|----0---0---0---|----0---0---0---|----2---2---2---|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|--3-------------|--0-------------|
E|--3-------------|--0-------------|----------------|----------------|
And so on...
Listen to the song to hear when to play the same chord twice and so on.
Haven't made an intro part, but it's just to play like the finishing line
of chords in the chorus or something.
[Verse]
GEmCAm
Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
DD7CG
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
EmCAm
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
DD7CG
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
GEmCAm
I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
DCGD7
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
GEmAm
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
DD7CG
Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.
[Chorus]
GDD7
Did they beat the drum slowly,
CG
Did they play the fife lowly,
DD7CD
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
AmGEm
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
GCD7G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.
[Verse]
GEmCAm
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
DD7CG
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,
EmCAm
And though you died back in 1916,
DD7CG
To that loyal heart you're forever 19.
GEmCAm
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
DCGD7
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,
GEmAm
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,
DD7CG
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[Chorus]
GDD7
Did they beat the drum slowly,
CG
Did they play the fife lowly,
DD7CD
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
AmGEm
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
GCD7G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.
[Verse]
GEmCAm
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,
DD7CG
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,
EmCAm
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
DD7CG
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
GEmCAm
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
DCGD7
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
GEmAm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
DD7CG
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[Chorus]
GDD7
Did they beat the drum slowly,
CG
Did they play the fife lowly,
DD7CD
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
AmGEm
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
GCD7G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.
[Verse]
GEmCAm
And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
DD7CG
Do all those who lie here know why they died,
EmCAm
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
DD7CG
Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
GEmCAm
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
DCGD7
The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
GEmAm
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
DD7CG
And again, and again, and again, and again.
[Chorus]
GDD7
Did they beat the drum slowly,
CG
Did they play the fife lowly,
DD7CD
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
AmGEm
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
GCD7G
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.