Ian Stuart Donaldson - The Green Fields of France

IAN STUART & STIGGER:
"Patriotic Ballads" album.

THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE

Well, how do you do young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
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I see by your gravestone, you were only nineteen
When you joined the great call-up in nineteen sixteen
And I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
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(chorus)
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife loudly?
Did they play the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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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 forever nineteen
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Or are you a stranger without even a name?
Enclosed and forever behind a glass frame
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
And faded to yellow, in a brown leather frame
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Well the sun, now it shines, on the green fields of France
As the warm summer breeze, that makes the red poppies dance
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbwire, there's no guns firing now
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But here in this graveyard that'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, that was butchered and damned
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Young Willie McBride, I can't help wondering why
Do those that lie here know why that they died?
And did they believe when they answered the call
Did they really believe that this war would end war?

Great Song. ;)
enjoy

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[IKnowThings]

R.i.P. Willie McBride

1897-1916

[IKnowThings]

Farewell Ian Stuart. You will live forever because heroes never die!

[shamantrainer]

@rangers1242 this song was written about world war one, 1916? hear that? Germany was still imperial at that time. Secondly ones nationality doesnt dictate politics eternally. Italy and Japan were Allied in ww1, and Axis in ww2. You should make an attempt to know even a little about what you are talking about before writing. ty and yw

[rangers1242]

christ these lyrics are a contradiction!!! hes on about the british soldiers who died during the war fighting against fascism and nazism but is a fascist himself into white power.....whos side were you on ian!!! left or right...very confused politically werent you...did you record this on 4 track...the sound quality sounds shit enough to be!

[enior24]

i have only one thing to say i think he sings it best no mather what you say pepole he have the sinig voice for it ok and former skinhead

[rangers1242]

never got rich....its hardly surprising playing these songs...got its bloody embarassing...what a bloody shower of SHITE!! hitler would have shot this bastard on sight! is he tone deaf....christ kill me now rather than listen to this garbage!! hes like a crap neil young!

[axelfalk1]

The song says it all really. What a nightmare was the Great European Civil War 1914-1945: never forget, fight for the men who fell, redeem the land

[Alimantado91]

Ian Stuart Donaldson, a former grammer school boy from Blackpool who gave up a career as a bicycle messenger and car wash attendant to form Skrewdriver. Unfortunately for him this turned out to be an artistic and financial step down.

[burnleyskinhead]

Your gone with the breeze....R.I.P ISD !

[wabblum99]

thought he hated the irish