Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Green Fields of France, artist - The Corries. Album song Lads Among the Heather, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Record label: GB
Song language: English
The Green Fields of France |
Well, how do you do young Willie McBride? |
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? |
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun |
I’ve been walking all day, and I’m nearly done |
I see by your gravestone, you were only nineteen |
When you joined the great call-up in nineteen sixteen |
And I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean |
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? |
(chorus) |
Did they beat the drums slowly? |
Did they play the fife loudly? |
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? |
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? |
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined? |
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 a glass frame |
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained |
And faded to yellow, in a brown leather frame |
Well the sun, now it shines, on the green fields of France |
As the warm summer breeze, that makes the red poppies dance |
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds |
There’s no gas, no barbwire, there’s no guns firing now |
But here in this graveyard that’s 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 was butchered and damned |
Young Willie McBride, I can’t help wondering why |
Do those that lie here know why that they died? |
And did they believe when they answered the call |
Did they really believe that this war would end war? |
The sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain |
The killing and dying were all done in vain |
Young Willie McBride, it all happened again |
And again, and again, and again, and again |