Letras
Well how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done
I can see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
And I hope you died well 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 of the Forest?
Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in 1916
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
Or are you a stranger without even a name
And closed down forever behind a glass pane?
In an old photograph, all battered 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 of the Forest?
The sun now it shines on the green fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze, it makes the red poppies dance
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, no gunfire and now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To a man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation that were 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 of the Forest?
Ah young Willie McBride, I can't help wondering why
Two dolls that lie here, now why did they die?
And did they believe when they answered the call?
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing, the dying, they were all done in vain
For young Willie McBride it all happened again
And again and again and again and again
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 of the Forest?
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
And did the band play the Last Post and Chorus?
Did the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest?