Did you see them   Going off to fight?   Children of the barricade   Who didn't last the night?   Did you see them   Lying where they died?   Someone used to cradle them   And kiss them when they cried.   Did you see them   Lying side by side?       Who will wake them?   No one ever will.   No one ever told them   That a summer day can kill.   They were schoolboys   Never held a gun   Fighting for a new world   That would rise up like the sun   Where's that new world   Now the fighting's done?       Nothing changes, nothing ever will   Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.   Same old story, what's the use of tears?   What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?   Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning   Through the years.       Turning, turning, turning through the years   Minutes into hours and the hours into years.   Nothing changes, nothing ever can   Round and round the roundabout and back where you began.   Round and round and back where you began.