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    Default Re: Remembrance Day

    May they rest in peace, and may we never forget -- nor stop trying to better the world they helped create with -- their sacrifice.

    Quote Originally Posted by Eric Bogel

    The Green Fields of France (Wille McBride)

    Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
    Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side
    And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
    I've been working all day and I'm nearly done
    I see by your grave stone you were only nineteen
    When you joined the great fallen in nineteen sixteen
    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, did they play the fife lowly
    Did they sound the dead 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 nineteen sixteen
    In that faithful heart are you always nineteen
    Or are you a stranger without even a name
    Enclosed and forever behind the glass frame
    In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained
    And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

    Chorus

    The sun now it shines on the green fields of France
    There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
    And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
    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
    The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
    To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
    To a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

    Chorus

    Now young Willie McBride I can't help but wonder why
    Do all those who lie here know why they died
    And did they believe when they answered the cause
    Did they really believe that this war would end wars
    Well, the sorrows, the suffering, the glory, the pain
    The killing and dying was all done in vain
    For young Willie McBride it all happened again
    And again, and again, and again, and again.

    Chorus
    Last edited by Seamus Fermanagh; 11-11-2008 at 21:20.
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