How do you do young Willie McBride
do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside.
And rest for a while 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 fallen in nineteen-sixteen.
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean.
Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene.

CHORUS:
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death-march as they lowered you down?
And did the band play the Last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the forest"?

And 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
forever enshrined behind the glass frame
In a old photograph, torn and battered and stained
And fade to yellow in a brown leather frame.

CHORUS:
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death-march as they lowered you down?
And did the band play the Last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the forest"?

The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the clouds
no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no-man's-land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.

CHORUS:
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death-march as they lowered you down?
And did the band play the Last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the forest"?

I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride
Do all those that lie here know why did they died
Did you really believe when they told you the cause
Did they really believe that this war would end wars
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
For young Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again

CHORUS:
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death-march as they lowered you down?
And did the band play the Last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the "Flowers of the forest"?

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