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My Youngest Son Came Home Today

by Eric Bogle


    My youngest son came home today.
    His friends marched with him all the way.
    The flutes and drum beat out the time,
    As 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 a son,
    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 saint home today.

    Upon the narrow Belfast streets
    An Irish sky looks down and weeps
    On children's blood in gutters spilled
    For dreams of freedom 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 flutes and drum beat out the time,
    As 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 home to stay.




My Youngest Son Came Home Today

as performed by Mary Black


    My youngest son came home today.
    His friends marched with him all the way.
    The pipes 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,
    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.

    Above the narrow Belfast streets
    An Irish sky looks down and weeps
    At children's blood in gutters spilled
    In dreams of freedom 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 home to stay.





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