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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