Green fields of France[G] - The Furys [Verse] [C] Well how do you [Am] do young [F] Willy Mc-[G]Bride Do you [G] mind if I [G7] sit here down [F] by your grave-[C]side And rest for a [Am] while in the [F] warm summer [G] sun I've been [G] walking all [G7] day and [F] I'm nearly [C] done I [C] see by your [Am] gravestone your were [F] only nine-[Dm]teen When you [G] joined the great falling in [F] nineteen six-[G7]teen Well I [C] hope you died [Am] well and I [F] hope you died [Dm] clean Or young [G] Willy Mc-[G7]Bride was it [F] slow and ob-[C]scene [Chorus] Did they [G] beat the drum [G7] slowly, did they [F] play the fifes [Dm] lowly Did they [G] sound the death [G7] march as they [F] lowered you [G] down And did the [F] band play the last post and [C] chorus Did the [C] pipes play the [F] flowers of the [G7] fo-[C]rest. [Verse 2] [C] Did you leave a [Am] wife or a [F] sweetheart be-[G]hind In [G] some faithful [G7] heart is your [F] memory en-[C]shrined And though you died [Am] back in [F] nineteen fif-[G]teen In [G] some faithful [G7] heart are you for-[F]ever nine-[C]teen [C] Or are you a [Am] stranger without [F] even a [Dm] name En-[G]closed and for-ever be-[F]hind a glass [G7] frame In an [C] old photo-[Am]graph torn [F] battered and [Dm] stained And [G] fading to [G7] yellow in a [F] brown leather [C] frame. [Chorus] Did they [G] beat the drum [G7] slowly, did they [F] play the fifes [Gm] lowly Did they [G] sound the death [G7] march as they [F] lowered you [G] down And did the [F] band play the last post and [C] chorus Did the [C] pipes play the [F] flowers of the [G7] fo-[C]rest. [Verse 3] [C] Well the sun now it [Am] shines on the [F] green fields of [G] France There's a [G] warm summer [G7] breeze it makes the [F] red poppies [C] dance And look how the [Am] sun shines from [F] under the [G] clouds There's no [G] gas no barbed [G7] wire, there's no [F] gun firing [C] now. [C] But here in this [Am] graveyard it's [F] still no mans [Dm] land The [G] countless white crosses stand [F] mute in the [G7] sand To [C] man's blind in-[Am]difference to [F] his fellow [Dm] man To a [G] whole gene-[G7]ration that were [F] butchered and [C] dammed [Chorus] Did they [G] beat the drum [G7] slowly, did they [F] play the fifes [Dm] lowly Did they [G] sound the death [G7] march as they [F] lowered you [G] down And did the [F] band play the last post and [C] chorus Did the [C] pipes play the [F] flowers of the [G7] fo-[C]rest. [Verse 4] [C] Well Will Mc-[Am] Bride I cant [F] help wonder [G] why Do [G] those that lie [G7] here know [F] why did they [C] die slowly, And did they be-[Am]lieve when they [F] answered the [G] call Did they [G] really be-[G7]lieve that this [F] war would end [C] wars [C] Well the [Am] sorrow the suffering the [F] glory the [G7] pain The [G] killing and dying was [F] all done in [G7] vain For young [C] Willy Mc-[Am]Bride it all [F] happened a-[Dm]gain And a-[G]gain,and a-[G7]gain,and a-[F]gain,and a-[C]gain [Repeat Chorus]