The Guardian website: he said that whilst he didn't approve of the dropping of verses and the "rock'n'roll arrangement" in Stone's version, he acknowledged that the latter was a matter of personal preference, and that "to do it acoustically and include all four verses and choruses would have made the song nearly seven minutes long and of doubtful commercial appeal in today’s music market", and that the broader appeal of Stone's recording would bring the song to the attention of people who would never have heard it before. He expressed the view that the cover version "certainly doesn’t glorify (war), but it doesn’t condemn it either... (it's) sentimentalising perhaps, trivialising even, but not glorifying". He concluded that neither he nor his publisher would be taking legal action against those involved with the cover, and that "I would have wished for a version of my song that could have been truer to my original intentions in writing it: illustrating the utter waste of war while paying tribute to the courage and sacrifice of those brave young men who fought. But if Joss’s cover touches a heart or two here and there and makes some people reflect, perhaps for the first time, on the true price of war, then her version will have a measure of validity and value". Willie McBride's reply A writer named Stephen L. Suffet wrote a song in 1997, from the point of Willie McBride respectfully answering Bogle, set to the same tune as No Man's Land, and saying that he doesn't regret fighting in the First World War. The lyrics were included in the book Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears'''. See also List of anti-war songs "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" "Streets of Laredo" References External links (PDF) Lyrics to No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France) in the Scots Independent Lyrics to No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France) with translations in many languages at the Antiwar Songs Website Lyrics guitar chords and video to 'The Green Fields Of France' http://unitedireland.tripod.com/id169.html The Green Fields Of France – Dropkick Murphys (Song Review & Lyrics) on ICELIA | Music & Media 1976 songs Anti-war songs Dropkick Murphys songs Eric Bogle songs Peter, Paul and Mary songs Songs about World War I