Green Fields Of France by Dropkick Murphys, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Green Fields Of France

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Dropkick Murphys is a punk rock band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States in 1996. First playing together in the basement of a friend's barbershop, the band made a name for itself because of its relentless touring and for its annual St. Patrick's Day weekend shows in Boston. The band's songs often deal with Celtic influences, and the working-class environment in which the band members grew up.

The band put out a series of EPs and was signed by Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong's label Hellcat Records.

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OK hopefully this should be an improvement on the other guys tabs for this song.
Did some minor corrections to v.2, substituted Fm and D7 with the right chords F and Dm

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C Am F Dm
Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
G F C
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
Am F Dm
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
G F C
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
C Am F Dm
I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
G F C G
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
C Am Dm
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
G F C
Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.

Chorus:

C G
Did they beat the drum slowly,
F C
Did they play the fife lowly,
G F G
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
F C Am
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
C F G C
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.

C Am F Dm
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
G F C
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,
Am F Dm
And though you died back in 1916,
G F C
To that loyal heart you're forever 19.
C Am F Dm
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
G F C G
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,
C Am Dm
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,
G F C
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

Chorus

C Am F Dm
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,
G F C
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,
Am F Dm
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
G F C
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
C Am F Dm
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
G F C G
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
C Am Dm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
G F C
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.

Chorus

C Am F Dm
And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
G F C
Do all those who lie here know why they die,
Am F C
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
G F C
Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
C Am F Dm
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
G F C G
The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
C Am Dm
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
G F C
And again, and again, and again, and again.