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Bogle Eric - No Mans Land guitar chord

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From: Barrie McCombs

Subject: Eric.Bogle / No.Man's.Land

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NO MAN'S LAND   Time: 3/4    Tenor: G    Bass: D

- AKA: The Green Fields Of France

- Eric Bogle, 1975, Record: Now I'm Easy

- Record: Peter, Paul & Mary  Flowers and Stones

- Record: The Clancy Brothers, Live With Robbie O'Connell

- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 32, Key: G

- Source: New Folk Favorites, page 68, Key: G

      G          *           C          Am

Well, how do you do, Private William Mc-Bride

       D         *              G             D

Do you mind if I sit here, down by your grave-side

         G          *            C           *

And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun

          D           *              C          G     (*)

I've been walking all day; Lord, and I'm nearly done

    *             *                    Am        *

And I see by your gravestone, you were only nine-teen

         D7                  *         G            D

When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen six-teen

       G             *           Am            *

Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean

   D         *             C           G

Or Willie Mc-Bride, was it slow and ob-scene

CHORUS:

         D             *                C              G

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly

        D           *                C           G

Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down

        C               *            D        *

Did the bugles play The Last Post in chorus

        G              C              D   G

Did the pipes play The Flowers Of The For-est

        G           *         C             Am

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart be-hind

   D             *             G         D

In some faithful heart is your memory en-shrined

G              *            C            *

And though you died back in nineteen-six-teen

   D          *             C           G      (*)

To that loyal heart are you always nine-teen

   *         *                Am     *

Or are you a stranger without even a name

D7            *       G            D

Enshrined for-ever be-hind a glass pane

      G         *               Am           *

In an old photo-graph, torn and tattered and stained

    D         *           C             G

And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

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NO MAN'S LAND (page 2)

                    

    G             *            C               Am

The sun's shining now on these green fields of France

    D               *              G           D

The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance

    G             *              C         *

The trenches have vanished, long under the plough

   D          *               C           G     (*)

No gas and no barbed-wire, no guns firing now

    *            *               Am             *

But here in this graveyard, it's still No Man's Land

    D7              *          G            D

The countless white crosses in mute witness stand

   G              *             Am         *

To man's blind in-difference to his fellow man

     D           *              C             G

To a whole gener-ation who were butchered and damned

      G              *           C         Am

And I can't help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride

   D             *        G             D

Do all those who lie here know why they died

        G         *                    C            *

Did you really be-lieve them when they told you the cause

        D         *               C             G      (*)

Did you really be-lieve that this war would end wars

         *              *           Am         *

Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame

    D7           *             G           D

The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain

    G         *               Am         *

For Willie Mc-Bride, it's all happened a-gain

      D          *          C          G

And a-gain and a-gain and a-gain and a-gain

ENDING: CHORUS, THEN REPEAT THE LAST TWO LINES OF THE CHORUS

NOTES:

- Asterisk (*) = new bar, no chord change

- Period (.) = eighth-note rest

- Initial underline (_) = half-note rest

- Terminal underlines (_)= note sustained into the next bar

- Submitted: 94-02-06

- By: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)

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