[00:15.490]Well how do you do private william mcbride
[00:22.490]Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
[00:27.490]I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
[00:35.490]I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done
[00:42.490]And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
[00:48.490]When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916
[00:54.490]And I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
[01:00.490]Or william mcbride was it slow and obscene?
[01:06.490]Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
[01:12.490]Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down?
[01:19.490]Did the bugle play the last post and chorus?
[01:25.490]Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"?
[01:42.490]Well the sun it shines now on these green fields of france
[01:49.490]The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
[01:55.490]The trenches have vanished now under the plow
[02:01.490]No gas and no barbed wire, no guns fire now
[02:09.490]For here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
[02:14.490]And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand
[02:21.490]To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
[02:27.490]And a whole generation who butchered and damned
[02:34.490]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?
[02:45.490]Did the bugle play the last post and chorus?
[02:52.490]Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"?
[02:58.490]Well I can't help but wonder now, willie mcbride
[03:06.490]Do all those who lie here know just why they died?
[03:12.490]Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
[03:18.490]Did you really believe this war would end all wars?
[03:25.490]But the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame
[03:32.490]The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
[03:38.490]For william mcbride it's all happened again
[03:43.490]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?
[04:08.490]Did the pipes play the "flowers o' the forest"?