N-I Ddn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
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L-      Ten  mil-      lion sol- diers to the war    have    gone,   Who may  ne-  ver   re-  turn   a-      gain.           Ten
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L-       mil-      lion  mo-     thers'  hearts      must  break For the ones    who    died    in        vain.
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L-    Heads bowed down in  sor- row,    In   her lone-ly  years,     I  heard a  mo- ther mur-mur thro' her tears,               I
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L-       did-n't raise my boy to be  a  sol-             dier,      I     brought him up to be my pride and joy,                     Who
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L-     dares to place a  mus-ket on  his  shoul-         der        To  shoot some o-ther mo-ther's dar-ling boy?                     Let
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L-     na-  tions ar-bi-trate their fu-ture trou-         bles,      It's time to lay the sword and gun a- way.                    There'd
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L-       be  no  war to-  day        If  mo-thers all would say,   "I   did-n't raise my  boy to be  a  sol-              dier."