When your feeling downhearted
For your boy thats departed
To the Battlefields over the sea
There to fight the fight
For the cause that is right
How can you but glory with me

When you think of the life             
Thats being lost in this strife
Its hard to look cheerful, I know
But to keep up heart
Plays a leading part
To the bitter defeat of our foe

And when the fight is won
You’ll be proud of your son
Though he look a bit seedy and scard
It wont matter a whit
If his clothes dont fit
For he’s come through a fight that was hard