Tablature no mans land - Eric Bogle

          



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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)

  - Make a Joyful Noise!

  

   


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 No mans land, de Eric bogle 

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