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