re: 101 uses for the terrorist fridge magnet #24 och noo jonesy I cannae tell whats what.
------ Well how do you do Private William McBride Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside, I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun I've been walking all day, Lord and I'm nearly done I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the great fallen of 1916 I hope you died well and I hope you died clean Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene
Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly and 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 ? And 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 that loyal heart are you forever 19 Or are you a stranger without even a name Enshrined there forever behind a glass pane In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly and 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 ? And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
------ The sun's shining now on the green Fields of France The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance The trenches have vanished long under the plough There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land And 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
Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly and 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 ? And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
------ And I can't help but wonder young Willie McBride Do all who lie here with you know why they died Did you really believe it when they told you the cause Did you honestly think that one war would end wars Well your suffering, your sorrow, your glory, your shame Your killing, your dying, it was all done in vain.......... 'Cos young Willie McBride it all happened again, and again, and again, and again and again.
Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly and 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 ? And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
