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Thread #5550   Message #33497
Posted By: Ferrara
27-Jul-98 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: 'Mother Songs' of the tear-jerker variety
Subject: Lyr Add: I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER^^^
Just have one verse & chorus of this:

Ten million soldiers to the wars have gone
Who will never return again
Ten million mother's heart will break
For the one who died in vain
Weighted down with sorrows of the lonely years
I heard a mother murmur through her tears:

CHORUS: I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER,
I brought him up to be my pride and joy.
Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder,
To shoot some other mother's pride and joy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,
It's time to put the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today, if mothers all would say,
I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER.