***No Man's Land*** (atau dikenal juga sebagai "The Green Fields of France" atau "Willie McBride") adalah lagu anti-perang yang diciptakan oleh seorang penulis lagu rakyat Skotlandia Eric Bogle pada tahun 1976. Lagu ini menceritakan tentang perjuangan Willie McBride seorang tentara biasa pada Perang Dunia I yang meninggal pada umur 19 di Prancis saat tahun 1916.

Identitas Willie McBride
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Mengikuti lagu, Nisan milik Willie McBride menunjukkan bahwa Willie McBride meninggal pada 1916 saat berusia 19 tahun. Berdasarkan Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ada delapan prajurit yang bernama Willie McBride dan kemudian ada enam prajurit bernama W. McBride yang meninggal di Prancis atau Belgia selama Perang Dunia I dan tidak ada yang cocok dengan prajurit yang ada di Lagu.[*butuh rujukan*]

Lirik
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Berdasarkan lagu The Green Fields of France yang dinyanyikan oleh Dropkick Murphys, lirik No Man's Land adalah sebagai berikut:

Oh how do you do, young Willy McBride  

Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside  

And rest for a while 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 nineteen  

When you joined the great fallen in 1916  

Well I hope you died quick  

And I hope you died clean  

Or Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene

Did they beat the drums 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 and 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  

To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen  

Or are you a stranger without even a name  

Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane  

In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained  

And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame

Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus  

Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

The sun shining down on these green fields of France  

The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance  

The trenches have vanished long under the plow  

No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now  

But here in this graveyard that's still no mans land  

The countless white crosses in mute witness stand  

To man's blind indifference to his fellow man  

And a whole generation were butchered and damned

Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus  

Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

And I can't help but wonder oh Willy McBride  

Do all those who lie here know why they died  

Did you really believe them when they told you the cause  

Did you really believe that this war would end wars  

Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame  

The killing and dying it was all done in vain  

Oh Willy McBride it all happened again  

And again, and again, and again, and again

Did they beat the drums 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 and chorus  

Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

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