Biography:
Scotland's greatest living Australian. Or the other way around, depending on how you look at it.
Born in Peebles, Scotland, and emigrating to Australia in 1969, he currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia. Written in 1972, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is perhaps his best-known song, being a haunting evocation of the ANZAC experience fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.
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Other songs:
- And The Band Played "waltzing Matilda"
- Across The Hills Of Home
- And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
- And The Band Played Waltzing Matlida
- Ballad Of Henry Holloway
- Bloody Rotten Audience
- Dedication Day
- Front Row Cowboy
- Green Fields Of France
- Leaving Nancy
- No Mans Land
- Now Im Easy
- Safe In The Harbour
- Scraps Of Paper
- The Blessing
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NO MAN'S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
- AKA: The Green Fields Of France
- Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy
- Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones
- Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell
- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G
- Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
G * C Am
Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
D * G D
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
G * C *
And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
D * C G (*)
I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done
* * Am *
And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
D7 * G D
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
G * Am *
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
D * C G
Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS:
D * C G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
D * C G
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down
C * D *
Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
G C D G
Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
G * C Am
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
D * G D
In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
G * C *
And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
D * C G (*)
To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
* * Am *
Or are you a stranger without even a name
D7 * G D
Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
G * Am *
In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
D * C G
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
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NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)
G * C Am
The sun's shining now on these green fields of France
D * G D
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
G * C *
The trenches have vanished, long under the plough
D * C G (*)
No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
* * Am *
But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land
D7 * G D
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
G * Am *
To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man
D * C G
To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
G * C Am
And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride
D * G D
Do all those who lie here know why they died
G * C *
Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause
D * C G (*)
Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars
* * Am *
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
D7 * G D
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
G * Am *
For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain
D * C G
And A-gain and A-gain and A-gain and A-gain
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
NOTES:
- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change
- Period (.) = eighth-note rest
- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest
- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar
- Submitted: 94-02-06
- By: Barrie McCombs ([email protected])
- Make a Joyful Noise!
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NO MAN'S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
- AKA: The Green Fields Of France
- Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy
- Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones
- Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell
- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G
- Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
G * C Am
Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
D * G D
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
G * C *
And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
D * C G (*)
I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done
* * Am *
And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
D7 * G D
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
G * Am *
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
D * C G
Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS:
D * C G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
D * C G
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down
C * D *
Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
G C D G
Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
G * C Am
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
D * G D
In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
G * C *
And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
D * C G (*)
To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
* * Am *
Or are you a stranger without even a name
D7 * G D
Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
G * Am *
In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
D * C G
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
---------------------------------------------
NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)
G * C Am
The sun's shining now on these green fields of France
D * G D
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
G * C *
The trenches have vanished, long under the plough
D * C G (*)
No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now
* * Am *
But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land
D7 * G D
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
G * Am *
To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man
D * C G
To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned
G * C Am
And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride
D * G D
Do all those who lie here know why they died
G * C *
Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause
D * C G (*)
Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars
* * Am *
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
D7 * G D
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
G * Am *
For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain
D * C G
And A-gain and A-gain and A-gain and A-gain
ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS
NOTES:
- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change
- Period (.) = eighth-note rest
- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest
- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar
- Submitted: 94-02-06
- By: Barrie McCombs ([email protected])
- Make a Joyful Noise!
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