Papa take a look at your boy   He's a military man   Papa take a look at your boy   He's crying   Papa take a look at your boy   He's a soldier   Papa take a look in his eyes   They're colder      Papa take a look at your boy   He's a military man   Mama take a look at your boy   He's dying   Mama take a look at your boy   He's fighting   Mama take a look at your boy   He's frightened      They have trained your boy to kill   And kill someday he will   They have trained your boy to die   And ask no questions why      Papa take a look at your boy   Take a look at your boy   Take a look at your boy   He's a killer, yeah      Mama take a look at your boy   Take a look at him now   Take a look at your boy   He's a soldier, he's colder, he's older, mama      Mama take a look at your boy   Obey the order   Mama take a look at your boy   Like a lamb to the slaughter      They have trained your boy to kill   And kill someday he will   They have trained your boy to die   And ask no questions why      One day, I will write for you a lovesong mother   As the children say, I love you, please hold me   And you and I, we will live our life together   Until that day when we die, I will love you mother   I will always love you      I'am writing from this war   Oh mama, I don't know what I'm fighting for   And have you seen my children?   God bless them, kiss them   And tell them that I miss them      See I'm frightened in the dark   Mama, mama   The blood is ankle-deep   They have trained your boy to kill   And kill someday he will   They have trained your boy to die      Mama take a look at your boy   Take a look at him now   Take a look at your boy   He's marching   He's a soldier      Oh brother, oh mama   He's on the street   He's marching to the backbeat