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Fathers are pleading, lovers are all alone |
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Mothers are prayin', send our sons back home (tell 'em 'bout it) |
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You marched them away, yes you did now, on ships and planes |
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To a senseless war facing death in vain |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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(Why don't you) Turn the ships around |
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(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down |
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Can't you see 'em marchin' 'cross the sky? |
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All the soldiers that have died |
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Tryin' to get home |
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Can't you see them tryin' to get home? |
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Tryin' to get home |
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They're tryin' to get home |
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Cease all fire (tell 'em 'bout it) on the battlefield |
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Enough men have already been wounded and killed |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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(Why don't you) Turn the ships around |
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(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down |
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(Mothers, fathers, and lovers, can't you see them?) |
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Tryin' to get home |
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Can't you see them tryin' to get home |
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(Have mercy) |
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Tryin' to get home |
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Tryin' to get home |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive) |
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What they doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive) |
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When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive) |
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What they doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive) |
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When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring 'em all, bring 'em all home (bring 'em back alive) |
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Bring 'em all, bring 'em home now (bring 'em back alive) |
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(fade out) |