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No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest

No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest Lyrics

Song No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest
Artist June Tabor
Album Ashes and Diamonds
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[02:50]
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[00:01.30] Well how do you do, Private Willie McBride,
[00:07.49] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
[00:13.80] And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
[00:19.99] I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
[00:27.35] I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
[00:34.19] When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen-sixteen.
[00:40.07] I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
[00:46.40] Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[00:53.91] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[00:59.34] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered ye down?
[01:06.83] Did the bugles sing “The Last Post” in chorus?
[01:13.25] Did the pipes play the 'Flowers o' the Forest'?
[01:24.49] And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
[01:31.34] In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
[01:37.97] And, though you died back in nineteen-sixteen
[01:44.16] To that faithful heart are you always nineteen
[01:51.68] Or are you just a stranger without even a name
[01:58.38] Forever enclosed behind some glass pane
[02:04.69] In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained
[02:11.32] And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[02:18.89] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[02:25.04] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered ye down?
[02:32.62] Did the bugles sing “The Last Post” in chorus?
[02:39.10] Did the pipes play the 'Flowers o' the Forest'?
[02:50.72] Well, the sun is shining down on these green fields of France;
[02:57.72] The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
[03:04.13] The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
[03:10.35] No gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
[03:18.07] But here in this graveyard it's still no-man's-land
[03:24.77] The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
[03:31.08] To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
[03:37.02] And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[03:44.52] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[03:50.79] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered ye down?
[03:58.15] Did the bugles sing “The Last Post” in chorus?
[04:04.63] Did the pipes play the 'Flowers o' the Forest'?
[04:16.35] And I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride,
[04:22.85] Do all those who lie here know why they died
[04:29.56] Did you really believe them when they told you "the cause"?
[04:36.21] Did you really believe that this war would end wars
[04:44.05] For the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
[04:50.76] The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
[04:57.12] For Willie McBride, it’s all happened again
[05:03.38] And again, and again, and again, and again.
[05:11.13] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[05:17.76] Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered ye down?
[05:25.07] Did the bugles sing “The Last Post” in chorus?
[05:31.90] Did the pipes play the 'Flowers o' the Forest'?
[01:23]
[02:50]
[04:16]
[00:01.30] Well how do you do, Private Willie McBride,
[00:07.49] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
[00:13.80] And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
[00:19.99] I' ve been walking all day, and I' m nearly done.
[00:27.35] I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
[00:34.19] When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteensixteen.
[00:40.07] I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
[00:46.40] Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[00:53.91] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[00:59.34] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[01:06.83] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[01:13.25] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[01:24.49] And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
[01:31.34] In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
[01:37.97] And, though you died back in nineteensixteen
[01:44.16] To that faithful heart are you always nineteen
[01:51.68] Or are you just a stranger without even a name
[01:58.38] Forever enclosed behind some glass pane
[02:04.69] In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained
[02:11.32] And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[02:18.89] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[02:25.04] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[02:32.62] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[02:39.10] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[02:50.72] Well, the sun is shining down on these green fields of France
[02:57.72] The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
[03:04.13] The trenches have vanished long under the plow
[03:10.35] No gas, no barbed wire, there' s no guns firing now
[03:18.07] But here in this graveyard it' s still noman' sland
[03:24.77] The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
[03:31.08] To man' s blind indifference to his fellow man
[03:37.02] And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[03:44.52] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[03:50.79] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[03:58.15] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[04:04.63] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[04:16.35] And I can' t help but wonder now, Willie McBride,
[04:22.85] Do all those who lie here know why they died
[04:29.56] Did you really believe them when they told you " the cause"?
[04:36.21] Did you really believe that this war would end wars
[04:44.05] For the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
[04:50.76] The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
[04:57.12] For Willie McBride, it' s all happened again
[05:03.38] And again, and again, and again, and again.
[05:11.13] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[05:17.76] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[05:25.07] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[05:31.90] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[01:23]
[02:50]
[04:16]
[00:01.30] Well how do you do, Private Willie McBride,
[00:07.49] Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
[00:13.80] And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
[00:19.99] I' ve been walking all day, and I' m nearly done.
[00:27.35] I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
[00:34.19] When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteensixteen.
[00:40.07] I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
[00:46.40] Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
[00:53.91] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[00:59.34] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[01:06.83] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[01:13.25] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[01:24.49] And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
[01:31.34] In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
[01:37.97] And, though you died back in nineteensixteen
[01:44.16] To that faithful heart are you always nineteen
[01:51.68] Or are you just a stranger without even a name
[01:58.38] Forever enclosed behind some glass pane
[02:04.69] In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained
[02:11.32] And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.
[02:18.89] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[02:25.04] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[02:32.62] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[02:39.10] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[02:50.72] Well, the sun is shining down on these green fields of France
[02:57.72] The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
[03:04.13] The trenches have vanished long under the plow
[03:10.35] No gas, no barbed wire, there' s no guns firing now
[03:18.07] But here in this graveyard it' s still noman' sland
[03:24.77] The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
[03:31.08] To man' s blind indifference to his fellow man
[03:37.02] And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
[03:44.52] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[03:50.79] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[03:58.15] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[04:04.63] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
[04:16.35] And I can' t help but wonder now, Willie McBride,
[04:22.85] Do all those who lie here know why they died
[04:29.56] Did you really believe them when they told you " the cause"?
[04:36.21] Did you really believe that this war would end wars
[04:44.05] For the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
[04:50.76] The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
[04:57.12] For Willie McBride, it' s all happened again
[05:03.38] And again, and again, and again, and again.
[05:11.13] Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the fife lowly?
[05:17.76] Did the rifles fire o' er ye as they lowered ye down?
[05:25.07] Did the bugles sing " The Last Post" in chorus?
[05:31.90] Did the pipes play the ' Flowers o' the Forest'?
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