《The Green Fields Of France》歌词

[00:00:00] The Green Fields Of France - International Pub Ensemble

[00:00:09] Oh how do you do young Willie McBride

[00:00:15] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside

[00:00:21] And rest for a while in the warm summer sun

[00:00:27] I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done

[00:00:35] And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen

[00:00:41] When you joined the great fallen in Nineteen-Sixteen

[00:00:48] Well I hoped you died quick and I hoped you died clean

[00:00:54] Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene

[00:01:00] Did they beat the drums slowly

[00:01:02] Did they play the fife lowly

[00:01:05] Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down

[00:01:13] Did the band play the last post in chorus

[00:01:19] Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

[00:01:29] And Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind

[00:01:35] In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined

[00:01:41] And though you died back in Nineteen-Sixteen

[00:01:47] To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen

[00:01:54] Or are you a stranger without even a name

[00:02:00] Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane

[00:02:07] In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained

[00:02:13] And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

[00:02:19] Did they beat the drums slowly

[00:02:22] Did they play the fife lowly

[00:02:25] Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down

[00:02:32] Did the band play the last post in chorus

[00:02:38] Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

[00:02:49] The sun's shining down on these green fields of France

[00:02:55] The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance

[00:03:01] The trenches have vanished long under the plow

[00:03:06] No gas no barbed wire; no guns firing now

[00:03:14] But here in this graveyard that's still no mans land

[00:03:20] The countless white crosses in mute witness stand

[00:03:27] To a man's blind indifference to his fellow man

[00:03:33] And a whole generation were butchered and damned

[00:03:38] Did they beat the drums slowly

[00:03:41] Did they play the fife lowly

[00:03:44] Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down

[00:03:51] Did the band play the last post and chorus

[00:03:57] Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

[00:04:08] And I can't help but wonder oh Willie McBride

[00:04:14] Do all those that lie here know why they died

[00:04:20] Did you really believe them when they told you the cause

[00:04:25] Did you really believe that this war would end wars

[00:04:32] Well the suffring' the sorrow the glory the shame

[00:04:39] The killing and dying it was all done in vain

[00:04:46] Oh Willie McBride it all happened again

[00:04:52] And again and again and again and again

[00:04:57] Did they beat the drums slowly

[00:05:00] Did they play the fife lowly

[00:05:03] Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down

[00:05:10] Did the band play the last post in chorus

[00:05:15] Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest