Fill in the Blanks No Man's Land Eric BogleOnline version Listen to the Song and Fill the blanks by vandeperre carla 1 rifles pipe Private glorious bugles drum France sweetheart photograph suffering crosses cause Well , how do you do , 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 long and I'm nearly done . I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the fallen in 1916 Well , I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean , Or , Willie McBride , was it slow and obscene ? Chorus : Did they beat the slowly ? Did they sound the pipe lowly ? Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down ? Did the bugles sing ? Last Post' in chorus ? Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest' ? And did you leave a wife or a behind ? In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined And though you died back in 1916 To that loyal heart are you always 19 . Or are you stranger without even a name For ever enshrined behind some glass - pane In an old torn and tattered and stained And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame ? Chorus : Did they beat the drum slowly ? Did they sound the lowly ? Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down ? Did the bugles sing ? Last Post' in chorus ? Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest' ? Well the sun's shining now on these green fields of , The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance . The trenches are vanished long under the plough No gas and no barbed wire , no guns firing now . But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land . The countless white in mute witness stand . To man's blind indifference to his fellow man . And a whole generation who were butchered and downed . Chorus : Did they beat the drum slowly ? Did they sound the pipe lowly ? Did the fire o'er ye as they lowered you down ? Did the bugles sing ? Last Post' in chorus ? Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest' ? And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride Do all those who lie here know why they died ? Did you really believe them when they told you the ? You really believed that this war would end wars ? The , the sorrow , the glory , the shame - The killing , the dying - it was all done in vain . For Willie McBride , it all happened again And again , and again , and again , and again . Chorus : Did they beat the drum slowly ? Did they sound the pipe lowly ? Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down ? Did the sing ? Last Post' in chorus ? Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest' ?
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