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Bring The Boys Home

by:Freda Payne

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 Cease all 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)  I choose this song because I thought it strongly represented the feelings of some people had during the Vietnam war. It especially represented how the mothers and fathers and wife's wanted their loved ones back home with them. I think the lyrics make you want to change and "Bring the boys home (bring 'em back alive)". It also expressed the opinions of the family's who's son(s) were in the war. I think that this song altered the way people thought of the war in Vietnam.

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