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Well how do you do Private William McBride?

Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?

I’ll rest for awhile neath the warm summer sun

Been walking all day mate, and I’m nearly done

And I see by your gravestone, you’re only nineteen

When you joined the fallen in nineteen sixteen

Well I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean

Or Willy Mcbride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drums slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o’er ye over as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' and chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?

In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?

And though you died back in nineteen-sixteen

To that loyal heart are you always nineteen?

Or are you a stranger without a name?

Forever enshrined behind some glass pane

In an old photograph, torn and tattered, and stained.

And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.

Did they beat the drums slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o’er ye over as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' and chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

And the sun’s shining now on these green fields of France

The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance

The trenches have vanished long under the plough

No gas and no barb wire, no guns firing now

But here in this graveyard it’s still no-man's land

The countless white crosses, in mute witness stand

To man’s blind indifference to his fellow man

And a whole generation who were butchered and damned

Did they beat the drums slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o’er ye over as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' and chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

And I can’t help but wonder now Willy McBride

Do all those who lie here know why they died?

Did you really believe when they told you the cause?

Did you really believe that this war would end wars?

Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame

The killing and dying was all done in vain

For young Willy McBride it’s all happened again,

And again, and again, and again, and again, and again…

Did they beat the drums slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o’er ye over as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' and chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' and chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

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