Letras
How do you do young Willie McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done
I can see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers o the forest
Did you leave a young wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
I know that you died back in 1916
But in some faithful heart are you forever 19
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed in forever behind a glass pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers o the forest
The sun shines brightly on the green fields of France
The warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance
The trenches are scattered long under the town
No gas no barbed wire there's no guns fighting now
But here in this graveyard that's still no mans land
A thousand white crosses lie mute where they stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation that was butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife lowly
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
Did the band play the last post and chorus
Did the pipes play the flowers o the forest