Did they beat the drum slowly,
did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the
death march as they lowered you down
And did the
band sound the last post and chorus
Did the pipes
play the flooers O' the forest
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithfull heart is your memory enshrined
Although you died back in
In some faithfull heart your forever nineteen
Or
are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed
in forever behind a glass frame
In an old photograph
torn battered and stained
And faded to yellow in
a brown leather frame
Chorus
The sun now it shines on the green
fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze,
makes the red poppies dance
And look how the sun
shines from under the clouds
There’s no gas,
no barbed wire there's no guns firing down
But
here in this graveyard it's still no mans land
The
countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To
man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a
whole generation that lie butchered and damned
Chorus
Ah young Willie McBride I can't help
wonder why
To those who lie deep, now why did they
die
And did they believe when they answered the
call
Did they really believe that this war would
end wars
Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory,
the pain
The killing, the dying was all done in
vain
For young Willie McBride it all happened again
And again and again and again and again
Chorus
