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- Peter, Paul & Mary - No Man’s Land Lyrics
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- (Eric Bogle)
- Well how do you do Private William McBride
- Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
- I'll rest for awhile 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 19
- When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916
- And I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
- Or William McBride was it slow and obscene?
- [Chorus:]
- Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the pipes lowly?
- Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down?
- Did the bugle play the last post and chorus?
- Did the pipes play the "Flowers o' the Forest"?
- Well the sun it shines now on these green fields of France
- The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
- The trenches have vanished now under the plow
- No gas and no barbed wire, no guns fire now
- For 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 butchered and damned
- [Chorus]
- Well I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride
- Do all those who lie here know just why they died?
- Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
- Did you really believe this war would end all wars?
- But the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame
- The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain
- For William McBride it's all happened again
- And again and again and again and again.
- [Chorus]
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