Slim Dusty – No Mans Land (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
G C Am D G
[Verse]
G C Am Well, how do you do, Private William McBride? D G D Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side? G C Am I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun D C G Been walking all day mate and I'm nearly done Am And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 D G D When you joined the fallen in 1916 G Am Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean D C G Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[Chorus]
D C G Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the pipes lowly? D C G Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down? C D Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? G C D G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?
[Verse]
G C Am And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? D G D In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined G C Am And though you died back in 1916 D C G To that loyal heart are you always 19 Am Or are you just a stranger without even a name D G D Forever enclosed behind some glass-pane G Am In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained D C G And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
[Chorus]
D C G Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the pipes lowly? D C G Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down? C D Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? G C D G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?
[Interlude]
G C Am D G
[Verse]
G C Am And the suns shining now on these green fields of France D G D The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance G C Am The trenches have vanished long under the plough D C G No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now Am But here in this graveyard its still No Man's Land D G D And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand G Am To man's blind indifference to his fellow man D C G And a whole generation who were butchered and downed
[Chorus]
D C G Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the pipes lowly? D C G Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down? C D Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? G C D G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?
[Verse]
G C Am And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride D G D Do all those who lie here know why they died? G C Am Did you really believe when they told you the cause? D C G Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Am But the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame D G D The killing, the dying - it was all done in vain G Am For Willie McBride, it's all happened again D C G And again, and again, and again, and again
[Chorus]
D C G Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the pipes lowly? D C G Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down? C D Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? G C D G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?
[Tag]
C D Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? G C D G Did the pipes play 'The Flowers of the Forest'?