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Caskets of dead American servicemen
returning to Dover (Delaware) Air Force Base
Photos from The Memory Hole
(successful Freedom of Information battle)

BRING THE BOYS HOME
1971
artist: Freda Payne
composer: General Johnson

Fathers are pleading
Lovers are all alone
Mothers are praying:
"Send our sons back home!"

You marched them away
Yes, you did!
On ships and planes
To the 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)
Turn the ships around
Lay your weapons down

Can't you see 'em march across 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
Seesaw fire on the battlefield
Enough men have already
been wounded or 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)

Turn the ships around
Lay your weapons down
Mothers, fathers and lovers
Can't you see them?

Oooh, oooh ...
Tryin' to get home --
Can't you see them
tryin' to get home?
Oooh, oooh ...
Tryin' to get home --
They're 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 doing over there, now?
(bring 'em back alive)
When we need them over here, now!
(bring 'em back alive)
What they doing over there, now?
(bring 'em back alive)
When we need them over here, now!
(bring 'em back alive)