oh she knows she takes his hand and prays the child will understand
at the door they watch the men go by in the clothes that daddy wore mother's pride, her baby boy with his father's eyes he's a soldier waiting for a war time will come he'll hold a gun his father's son
as as he grows he hears the band and takes the step from boy too man at the shore she waves her son goodbye like the man she did before
mother's pride just a boy in his country's eyes he's a soldier waiting at the shore and in her heart the time has come to lose her son
and all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone they make no difference, no difference in the end still hear the women say, you're daddy died a hero in the name of God and man
mother's pride crazy boy his lifeless eyes he's a soldier bound forever more he'll hold a gun 'til kingdom come
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