Key: G major
Intro 1
G
Verse 1
C
Am
Private William McBride?
C
Am
D
by your graveside?
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G
and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone
C
Am
fallen in 1916.
D
G
I hope you died quick
C
Am
and I hope you died clean
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G
slow and obscene
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G
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
D
G
as they lowered you down?
Am
D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
C
Am
Did the pipes play the flowers of
D
G
C
Am
D
G
the forest?
D
G
Am
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
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D
is your memory enshrined
G
C
Am
And though you died back in 1916
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Am
without even a name
D
C
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D
Forever enclosed behind a glass frame
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G
brown leather frame
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G
Did they sound the fife lowly?
D
G
as they lowered you down?
Am
D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
C
Am
D
Did the pipes play the flowers of
G
C
Am
D
G
the forest?
The sun it shines down
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Am
D
and the red poppies dance
C
G
no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard
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Am
D
in mute witness stand
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Am
to his fellow man,
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G
butchered and damned
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G
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
D
G
as they lowered you down?
Am
D
Did the bugles sing the last post in chorus?
C
Am
Did the pines play the flowers
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G
C
Am
D
G
of the forest?
I can't help but wonder now,
D
G
Did you really believe them
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G
that this war would end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow,
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Am
the glory, the shame
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Am
D
it was all done in vain
G
Am
For Willie McBride it's all happened again
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G
and again, and again
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G
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
D
G
as they lowered you down?
Am
D
G
G
the flowers of the forest?
C
Am
D
C
Am
D
G
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Am
D
You
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