The Green Fields of France 歌詞
The Green Fields of France - The Men They Couldn't Hang
Well how do you do now you Willie MacBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your side
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done
Well I see by your gravestone you was only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen of nineteen sixteen
Well I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or Willie MacBride was it low and obscene
Did they beat the drums slowly
And play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march
As they lowered you down
Did the band sound the last post and chorus
Did they pipe the flowers of the forest
Did you leave a young wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart are your memories enshrined
For although you died back in nineteen sixteen
In that faithful heart you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed forever behind a glass pane
In an old photograph tor battered and stained
Faded to yellow with brown leather frayed
Did they beat the drums slowly
And play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march
As they lowered you down
Did the band sound the last post and chorus
Did they pipe the flowers of the forest
As the sun beats down
On the green fields of France
There's a soft summer breeze
Makes the red poppies dance
And see how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas there's no barbed wire
No guns firing now
Oh but here in this grave yard
It's still no man's land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
And through man's blind
Indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation
Who were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly
And play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march
As they lowered you down
Did the band sound the last post and chorus
Did they pipe the flowers of the forest
Did they really believe tat this war could end wars
Oh the sorrow the suffering the glory the pain
The killing and dying 'twas all done in vain
For Willie MacBride oh it happened again
And again and again and again and again
Did they beat the drums slowly
And play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march
As they lowered you down
Did the band sound the last post and chorus
Did they pipe the flowers of the forest