Biography:
The High Kings is an Irish ballad group formed by the same creators as Celtic Woman. Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey, and Darren Holden make up the group.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- Irish Pub
- Red Is The Rose
- As I Roved Out
- Black Velvet Band
- Come With Me Now
- Dirty Old Town
- Fields Of Glory
- Green Fields Of France
- Hand Me Down My Bible
- Irelands Shore
- Irish Pub Song
- Mairis Wedding
- Mcalpines Fusiliers
- Paddys Green Shamrock Shore
- Peggy Gordon
- Raglan Road
- Star Of The County Down
- Step It Out Mary
- The Irish Pub
- The Parting Glass
- The Town I Loved So Well
- Will Ye Go Lassie Go
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
F C Dm C (x2)
[Verse 1]
F A# C
Well how do you do, young Willy McBride?
C A# C
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
F A# C
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
C A# F
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
F C
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
C F A# C
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
F
I hope you died well
A#
And I hope you died clean
C A# F
Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Interlude]
F C Dm C
[Verse 2]
F A# C
Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind?
C A# F
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
F A# C
Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen
C A# F
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?
F C
Or are you a stranger without even a name
C A# C
Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane
F A#
In an old photograph torn, battered, and stained
C A# F
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
F A# C
The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France
C A# F
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
F A# C
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
C A# C
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now
F C
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
C F A# C
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
F A#
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
C A# F
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
F A# C
Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why?
C A# F
Do those that lie here know why they died?
F A# C
And did they believe when they answered the call?
C A# C
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
F F C F
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the shame
C F A# C
The killing and dying were all done in vain
F A#
For young Willy McBride it all happened again
C C A# F
And again, and again, and again, and again
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
F C Dm C (x2)
[Verse 1]
F A# C
Well how do you do, young Willy McBride?
C A# C
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
F A# C
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
C A# F
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
F C
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
C F A# C
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen-sixteen
F
I hope you died well
A#
And I hope you died clean
C A# F
Or young Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Interlude]
F C Dm C
[Verse 2]
F A# C
Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind?
C A# F
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
F A# C
Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen
C A# F
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?
F C
Or are you a stranger without even a name
C A# C
Enclosed then forever behind a glass pane
F A#
In an old photograph torn, battered, and stained
C A# F
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 3]
F A# C
The sun now shines o'er the green fields of France
C A# F
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
F A# C
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
C A# C
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gun firing now
F C
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
C F A# C
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
F A#
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
C A# F
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Verse 4]
F A# C
Now young Willy McBride, I can't help but wonder, why?
C A# F
Do those that lie here know why they died?
F A# C
And did they believe when they answered the call?
C A# C
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
F F C F
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the shame
C F A# C
The killing and dying were all done in vain
F A#
For young Willy McBride it all happened again
C C A# F
And again, and again, and again, and again
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
[Chorus]
C
Did they beat the drums slowly?
A# C
Did they play the fife lowly?
C A# C
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
A# F
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Dm A# C F
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
The Holydrug Cou (...)
The Home
The Homeless Gos (...)
The Honey Trees
The Honeycombs