Young Willie, My BrideI see by your grace, darling, you were only nineteenWhen you joined the great family in nineteen-sixteenI hope you died well and I hope you died cleanOh, Young Willie, My Bride, was it slow and obsceneDid they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife loudlyDid they sound the death march as the lovers do nowDid the band play the last post and chorusDid the pipes play the flowers of the fallDid you leave your wife or a sweetheart behindIn some fateful heart is your memory enshrinedAlthough you died back in nineteen-sixteenIn that fateful heart are you forever nineteenOr are you a stranger with a diviner nameEnclosed and far apart behind the glass frameIn an old photograph torn apart in timeUnfaded to your love in the brown and dark frameDid they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife loudlyDid they sound the death march as the lovers do nowDid the band play the last post and chorusDid the pipes play the flowers of the fallThe sun, how it shines on the green fields of FranceThere's a warm summer's breeze that makes the red puppies danceAnd look how the sun shines from under the cloudsThere's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no gunfighting nowBut here in this graveyard is still no man's landThe countless white crosses done built in the sandTo man's blight in the France, to his fellow manTo all generations that were butchered and damnedDid they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife loudlyDid they sound the death march as the lovers do nowDid the band play the last post and chorusDid the pipes play the flowers of the fallAre you willing, my bride, I can't help but wonder whyDo those that lie here know why did they dieAnd do they believe with the answer to comeDid they really believe that this war would end tomorrowWell, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the painThe killing and dying, it all done in vainAre you willing, my bride, it all happened againAnd again and again and again and againDid they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife loudlyDid they sound the death march as the lovers do nowDid the band play the last post and chorusDid the pipes play the flowers of the fallDid they beat the drums slowly, did they play the fife loudlyDid they sound the death march as the lovers do nowDid the band play the last post and chorusDid the pipes play the flowers of the fallThank you.