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)