F Bb C Well how do you do, young Willy McBride? C Bb F Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside F Bb C And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun C Bb F I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done F C I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen C F Bb C When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen F I hope you died well Bb And I hope you died clean C Bb F Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene? [Chorus] C Did they beat the drums slowly? Bb F Did they play the fife lowly? C Bb C Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Bb F Dm Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Dm Bb C F Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? [Interlude] F C Dm C [Verse 2] F Bb C Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind? C Bb F In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined? F Bb C Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen C Bb F In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen? F C Or are you a stranger without even a name C F Bb C Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane F Bb In an old photograph torn, battered, and stained C Bb F And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame? [Chorus] C Did they beat the drums slowly? Bb F Did they play the fife lowly? C Bb C Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Bb F Dm Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Dm Bb C F Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? [Verse 3] F Bb C The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France C Bb F There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance F Bb C And look how the sun shines from under the clouds C Bb D There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now F C But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land C F Bb C The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand F Bb To man's blind indifference to his fellow man C Bb F To a whole generation that were butchered and damned [Chorus] C Did they beat the drums slowly? Bb F Did they play the fife lowly? C Bb C Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Bb F Dm Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Dm Bb C F Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? [Verse 4] F Bb C Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why? C Bb F Do those that lie here know? Why did they die? F Bb C And did they believe when they answered the call? C Bb F Did they really believe that this war would end wars? F F C C For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the shame C F Bb C The killing and dying were all done in vain F Bb For young Willy McBride it all happened again C C Bb F And again, and again, and again, and again [Chorus] C Did they beat the drums slowly? Bb F Did they play the fife lowly? C Bb C Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Bb F Dm Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Dm Bb C F Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? [Chorus] C Did they beat the drums slowly? Bb C Did they play the fife lowly? C Bb C Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Bb F Dm Did the band play the Last Post in chorus? Dm Bb C F Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?