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From: Barrie McCombs
Subject: Eric.Bogle / No.Man’s.Land
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NO MAN’S LAND Time: 3/4 Tenor: G Bass: D
— AKA: The Green Fields Of France
— Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I’m Easy
— Record: Peter, Paul & Mary Flowers and Stones
— Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O’Connell
— Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G
— Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G
G * C Am
Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride
D * G D
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side
G * C *
And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
D * C G (*)
I’ve been walking all day; Lord, and I’m nearly done
* * Am *
And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen
D7 * G D
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen
G * Am *
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
D * C G
Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene
CHORUS:
D * C G
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly
D * C G
Did the rifles fire o’er you as they lowered you down
C * D *
Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus
G C D G
Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est
G * C Am
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind
D * G D
In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined
G * C *
And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen
D * C G (*)
To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen
* * Am *
Or are you a stranger without even a name
D7 * G D
Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane
G * Am *
In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained
D * C G
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
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NO MAN’S LAND (page 2)
G * C Am
The sun’s shining now on these green fields of France
D * G D
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
G * C *
