Lyrics Freda Payne

Freda Payne

Bring The Boys Home

Fathers are pleading, lovers are all alone

Mothers are prayin', send our sons back home (tell 'em 'bout it)

You marched them away, yes you did now, on ships and planes

To a senseless war facing death in vain

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

(Why don't you) Turn the ships around

(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down

Can't you see 'em marchin' 'cross the sky?

All the soldiers that have died

Tryin' to get home

Can't you see them tryin' to get home?

Tryin' to get home

They're tryin' to get home

Cease all fire (tell 'em 'bout it) on the battlefield

Enough men have already been wounded and killed

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

(Why don't you) Turn the ships around

(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down

(Mothers, fathers, and lovers, can't you see them?)

Tryin' to get home

Can't you see them tryin' to get home

(Have mercy)

Tryin' to get home

Tryin' to get home

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)

What they doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive)

When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive)

What they doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive)

When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive)

Bring 'em all, bring 'em all home (bring 'em back alive)

Bring 'em all, bring 'em home now (bring 'em back alive)