Lyrics of No man's land

Well, how do you do, williemcbride?
Do you mind if i sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and i'm nearly done.
And i see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen in 1916

I hope you died well and i hope you died clean
Or, willie mcbride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down ?
Did the bugles play the last post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,

In that loyal heart you're forever 19

Did they beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down ?
Did the bugles play the last post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

And i see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
I hope you died well and i hope you died clean
Or, willie mcbride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down ?
Did the bugles play the last post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

Did the bugles play the last post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?