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Well how do you do private william mcbride |
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Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? |
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I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun |
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I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done |
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And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 |
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When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916 |
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And I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean |
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Or william mcbride was it slow and obscene? |
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Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly? |
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Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? |
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Did the bugle play the last post and chorus? |
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Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"? |
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Well the sun it shines now on these green fields of france |
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The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance |
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The trenches have vanished now under the plow |
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No gas and no barbed wire, no guns fire now |
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For here in this graveyard it's still no man's land |
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And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand |
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To man's blind indifference to his fellow man |
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And a whole generation who butchered and damned |
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Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly? |
| [02:40.490] |
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? |
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Did the bugle play the last post and chorus? |
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Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"? |
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Well I can't help but wonder now, willie mcbride |
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Do all those who lie here know just why they died? |
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Did you really believe them when they told you the cause? |
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Did you really believe this war would end all wars? |
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But the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame |
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The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain |
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For william mcbride it's all happened again |
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And again and again and again and again. |
| [03:50.490] |
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly? |
| [03:56.490] |
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? |
| [04:02.490] |
Did the bugle play the last post and chorus? |
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Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"? |
