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Strophe:

Well how do you do young Willie McBride, do you mind if I sit here by your

graveside

And rest for a while 4neath the warm summer sun. I4ve been working all day and

I4m nearly done

I see by your gravestone you were only 19 when you joined the great fallen in

I hope you died well and I hope you died clean, or young Willie McBride was it

slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?

Did they sound the dead march as they lowered you down?

Did the band play «The Last Post» and chorus?

Did the pipes play «The Flowers Of The Forest»?

Strophe:

Did you leave e4er a wife or a sweetheart behind, in some faithful heart is

your memory enshrined

Although you died back in 1916, in some faithful heart you are forever 19

Or are you a stranger wihtout even a name, enclosed in forever behind a glass

frame

In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained, and faded to yellow in

brown leather frame

Strophe:

The sun now it shines o4er the green fields of France, there4s a warm summer

breeze makes the red poppies dance

And look how the sun shines from under the clouds, there4s no gas or barbed

wire, there4s no gun firing now

But here in the graveyard it4s still no man4s land, the countless white crosses

stand mute in the sand

To man4s blind indifference to his fellow man, to a whole generation we were

butchered and damned

Strophe:

Now young Willie McBride I can4t help wonder why, do all those who lie here

know why they died?

And did they believe when they answered the call, did they really believe that

this war would end wars?

Wel

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