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Well how do you do, Private William MacBride Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the great fallen in 1916 Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Or Willie MacBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they beat they drum slowly Did they sound the fife lowly? Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? Did a bugle 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 1916 To some fateful heart are you always nineteen? Or are you just a stranger without even a name Enshrined forever behind some gla** pane In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame Did they beat the drum slowly Did they sound the fife lowly? Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? Did a bugle sing the Last Post and Chorus? Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest? 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, now, under the plough No gas and no barbed 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 To a whole generation who were butchered and damned Did they beat the drum slowly Did they sound the fife lowly? Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? Did a bugle sing the Last Post and Chorus? Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest? And I can't help but wonder, now, William MacBride Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well, the suffering and the sorrow, the glory and the shame The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain For Willie MacBride, it's all happened again And again and again and again and again Did they beat the drum slowly Did they sound the fife lowly? Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down? Did a bugle sing the Last Post and Chorus? Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest?
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