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)