[Verse 1]
Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for a while beneath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done

[Verse 2]
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well, I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or, young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

[Chorus]
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play "The Last Post" in chorus?
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"?

[Verse 3]
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 nineteen

[Chorus]
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play "The Last Post" in chorus? (Chorus)
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"? (Forest)
[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well, I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or, young Willie McBride, was it slow, was it obscene?

[Chorus]
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play "The Last Post" in chorus? (Chorus)
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"? Did they?
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound Death March as they lowered you to the ground?
Did the band play "The Last Post" in chorus? (Chorus)
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"? (Forest)

[Outro]
Did the band play "The Last Post" in chorus?
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"?