C
[Verse 1]
F
Fathers are pleading, lovers are all alone
C
Mothers are praying, "Send our sons back home"
F
Oh, you marched them away on ships and planes
C
To a senseless war, facing death in vain
[Chorus]
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
Am G F Am G F
Turn the ships around, lay your weapons down
[Verse 2]
C
Can't you see them marching across the sky
F C
All the soldiers that have died, trying to get home
C
Can't you see them trying to get home
F C
Trying to get home, trying to get home
F
Cease all fire on the battlefield
C
Enough men have already been wounded and killed
[Chorus]
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
Am G F Am G F
Turn the ships around, lay your weapons down
[Instrumental]
C F C
C
Trying to get home, trying to get home
C
Trying to get back home, oh, trying to get home
[Chorus]
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
C
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
F
Bring the boys home (bring them back alive)
[Outro]
C F
What they doing over there now, when we need 'em over here now
C F
What they doing over there now, when we need 'em over here now
C
Bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em home (bring them back alive)
C
Bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em home (bring them back alive)
N.C.
Bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em back, back home (bring them back alive)
N.C.
Bring the boys home
