{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":62337,"song":"No Mans Land","artist":"Eric Bogle","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11542042-no-mans-land-chords-by-eric-bogle/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/62337?type=chord","rating":4.5555,"votes":52,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell, how do you do private William McBride,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDo you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've been walking all day long and I'm nearly done.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI see by your gravestone you were only 19,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn some faithful heart is your memory enshrined,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd though you died back in nineteen-sixteen,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo that loyal heart are you always nineteen.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOr are you a stranger without even a name,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nForever enshrined behind some glass pane,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd fading to yellow in a brown leather frame.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell, the sun's shining now on these green fields of France,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe trenches are vanished, long under the plough,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut here in this graveyard it's still \"No Man's Land\",[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe countless white crosses in mute witness stand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTo man's blind indifference to his fellow man,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd a whole generation who were butchered and damned.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDo all those who lie here know why they died[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDid you really believe them when they told you the cause[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid you really believe that this war would end wars.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor Willie McBride, it all happened again,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd again, and again, and again, and again.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the pipes play The Flowers of the Forest.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G","C","Am","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}