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From: Derek Gross
My youngest song came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The fife and drum beat out the time
While in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son was a fine young man
With a wife, a daughter and two sons
And a man he would have lived and died
Till by a bullet sanctified
Now he's a saint or so they say
They brought their young saint home today
An Irish sky looks down and weeps
Upon the narrow Belfast streets
At children's blood in gutters spilled
In dreams of glory unfulfilled
As part of freedom's price to pay
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The pipe and drum beat out the time
While in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
And this time he's here to stay
Words and music by Eric Bogle
Appears on Billy Bragg's _The Internationale_
and some album(s) of Eric Bogle's
From: Derek Gross   My youngest song came home today  His friends marched with him all the way  The fife and drum beat out the time  While in his box of polished pine  Like dead meat on a butcher's tray  My youngest son came home today  My youngest son was a fine young man  With a wife, a daughter and two sons  And a man he would have lived and died  Till by a bullet sanctified  Now he's a saint or so they say  They brought their young saint home today  An Irish sky looks down and weeps  Upon the narrow Belfast streets  At children's blood in gutters spilled  In dreams of glory unfulfilled  As part of freedom's price to pay  My youngest son came home today  My youngest son came home today  His friends marched with him all the way  The pipe and drum beat out the time  While in his box of polished pine  Like dead meat on a butcher's tray  My youngest son came home today  And this time he's here to stay  Words and music by Eric Bogle  Appears on Billy Bragg's _The Internationale_  and some album(s) of Eric Bogle's