Green Fields of France

Green Fields of France: Chords

Intro:
FA

      FA  DO     REm7 DO    SIb      DO
Well, how do you do,  young Willie McBride?
                               SIb          FA
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
         DO    REm7  DO     SIb          DO
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
                                 SIb      FA
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
         DO   REm7                SIb      SOLm
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
         DO                         SIb DO
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
  FA        DO  REm7       SIb           SOLm
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
         DO                     SIb        FA
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
         DO
Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         SIb           FA
did they play the fife lowly?
         DO
Did they sound the death march 
        SIb          DO
as they lowered you down?
        SIb                        FA     DO REm7
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        FA             SIb            DO FA
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

        FA    DO REm7      SIb          DO
Did you leave a  wife or a sweetheart behind
                               SIb      FA
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
               DO  REm     SIb DO
Although, you died back in 1916
                                 SIb        FA
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
           DO REm7        DO  SIb    SOLm
Or are you a stranger without even a name
  DO                  SIb            DO4   DO
Enclosed in forever behind the glass frame
      FA       REm7         SIb          SOLm
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
    DO                   SIb           FA
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
         DO
Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         SIb           FA
did they play the fife lowly?
         DO
Did they sound the death march 
        SIb          DO
as they lowered you down?
        SIb                        FA     DO REm7
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
            FA             SIb            DO FA
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

    FA  DO     REm7          SIb             DO
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France

There's a warm summer breeze 
               SIb         FA
that makes the red poppies dance
              DO  REm7           SIb       DO
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds

There's no gas, no barbed wire, 
           SIb          FA  
there's no guns firing now
             DO  REm7           SIb            SOLm
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
    DO                            SIb         DO4  DO
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
    FA         DO REm          SIb        SOLm
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
     DO                         SIb           FA
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
         DO
Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         SIb           FA
did they play the fife lowly?
         DO
Did they sound the death march 
        SIb         DO
as they lowered you down?
        SIb                        FA     DO REm
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        FA             SIb            DO FA
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

         FA     DO REm            SIb         DO
Ah young Willie Mc-Bride, I can't help wonder why
                             SIb         FA
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
             DO REm            SIb          DO
And did they believe when they answered the cause

Did they really believe 
          SIb           FA
that this war would end wars?
                 DO  REm       DO   SIb        SOLm
Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
    DO                       SIb        DO
The killing and dying, were all done in vain
          FA     DO REm           SIb       SOLm
For young Willie Mc-Bride, it all happened again
     DO                    SIb        FA
And again, and again, and again, and again
         DO
Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         SIb           FA
did they play the fife lowly?
         DO
Did they sound the death march 
        SIb          DO
as they lowered you down?
        SIb                        FA     DO REm7
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        FA             SIb            DO FA
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?
         DO
Did they beat the drum slowly, 
         SIb           FA
did they play the fife lowly?
         DO
Did they sound the death march 
        SIb          DO
as they lowered you down?
        SIb                        FA     DO REm7
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
        FA             SIb            DO SIbadd9   
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Fo-rest?

FA

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Green Fields of France è un brano inciso dal gruppo folk The Fureys, pubblicato come singolo nel 1979. Canzone che nasce nel 1976 con il titolo No Man's Land, fu scritta dal cantautore scozzese Eric Bogle ed è una forte protesta contro la guerra: Bogle la compone dopo essersi imbattuto in una tomba di un soldato (un certo Willie McBride), morto nel 1916 durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale in Francia. La versione più nota al pubblico è sicuramente quella della band irlandese. Buon divertimento!

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).