"Bring The Boys Home"

[Catherine Vincent]

Time for the radio stations to start playing that song and other anti-war songs. I know that "Bring the Boys Home" doesn't include the woman in service but we all know what it mean. If anything it would help the mothers and fathers that have loved ones in Iraq to cope.... such as DU's Mari and others.

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Bring The Boys Home
byFreda Payne


Fathers are pleading, lovers are all alone
Mothers are prayin', send our sons back home (tell 'em 'bout it)
You marched them away, yes you did now, on ships and planes
To a 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)
(Why don't you) Turn the ships around
(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down

Can't you see 'em marchin' 'cross 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

Cease all fire (tell 'em 'bout it) on the battlefield
Enough men have already been wounded and 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)
(Why don't you) Turn the ships around
(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down
(Mothers, fathers, and lovers, can't you see them?)

Tryin' to get home
Can't you see them tryin' to get home?
(Have mercy)
Tryin' to get home
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 doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive)
When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive)
What they doin' over there now (bring 'em back alive)
When we need 'em over here now? (bring 'em back alive)
Bring 'em all, bring 'em all home (bring 'em back alive)
Bring 'em all, bring 'em home now (bring 'em back alive)
(fade out)
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[NightTrain]

1. Great, great song!

Last March, I put together a CD called PROTEST SONGS OF THE SOUL ERA. Check out this track listing!

1. WAR, Edwin Starr
2. BRING THE BOYS HOME, Freda Payne
3. IF YOU'RE READY (COME GO WITH ME), The Staple Singers
4. BLOWIN' IN THE WIND, Stevie Wonder
5. CAN'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, Delia Gartrell
6. WE NEED ORDER, The Chi-Lites
7. BALL OF CONFUSION, The Temptations
8. PLEASE UNCLE SAM (SEND BACK MY MAN), The Charmels
9. I SHOULD BE PROUD, Martha & The Vandellas
10. HYMN NO. 5, The Mighty Hannibal
11. GIVE A DAMN, The Staple Singers
12. WHAT'S GOING ON, Marvin Gaye
13. (FOR GOD'S SAKE) GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE, The Chi-Lites
14. WE GOT TO HAVE PEACE, Curtis Mayfield
15. WHY CAN'T WE LIVE TOGETHER, Timmy Thomas
16. LA-LA PEACE SONG, Al Wilson
17. HEAVEN HELP US ALL, Stevie Wonder
18. THE WORLD IS A GHETTO, War
19. PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE, Martha & The Vandellas
20. ABRAHAM, MARTIN & JOHN, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
21. SAVE THE CHILDREN, Marvin Gaye
22. SAM STONE, Swamp Dogg
23. THIS IS MY COUNTRY, The Impressions

[EstimatedProphet]

2. The first thing that I thought of

Pink Floyd's The Wall

Bring the boys back home.
Bring the boys back home.
Don't leave the children on their own, no, no.
Bring the boys back home.

In the film, when this song is played young Pink runs into the train station to find his dad when everyone is returning from WWII. Everyone is singing and happy except for him, because his father was killed at Anzio, and that's how he found out it happened. Moving point in the movie for me.