No Man's LandDo 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
"And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean
Or Willie McBride, was if slow and obscene?
"Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound 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?
"And did you leave a wife or sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in nineteen-sixteen
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
"Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
"Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound 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?
"The sun's 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 plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
"But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned
"Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound 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?
"And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you 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
Oh Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
"Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound 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?"
-The Green Fields of France (No Man's Land), written by Eric Bogle, performed by the Dropkick Murphys
I got tired of seeing this journal empty, but I don't really have anything I think is worth saying. But I love this song, so I thought I'd share it.
'tis appreciated!
ps
I've adored the Eric Bogle song since i first heard eric sing it (yes, I'm old) .. interestingly, I've also heard it sung in Ireland, where the reference to '1916' gave the singer cause to assume the song was actually about the Easter Rebellion, not World War One. Still, he sang it with the passion the song demands ..
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