Boys of Major

John wanted to be a sailor Sail the seven seas Find someone to love Someone to please One day the Boys of Major Came marching down the street Heads held up so high They could barely see They said John there's a war a brewing Somewhere across the sea Pick up this gun and sing this song with me They sang we're the Boys of Major The men of our country Fighting for our mothers for our peace We were there and we were dying Dying away We were there and we were sinking Sinking away John had left his country His mother and his wife He died there in Burgundy In the middle of the night Before he lay his eyes shut He sang out one last thing So loud he woke the soldiers That were drunken off their gin He said I'm a Boy of Major A man of my country Fighting for my mother for my peace We were there and we were dying Dying away We were there and we were sinking Sinking away We were there and we were dying Dying away We were there and we were sinking Sinking away Now when the war was over John never came back His body laid to rest In a field in northern France Days had gotten colder Nights had passed on by One day a boy had yelled out That a letter had arrived It said if you're reading this I've probably been freed I'm probably a sailor Sailing the seven seas But I'm still a Boy of Major A man of my country Fighting for my mother for my peace We were there and we were dying Dying away We were there and we were sinking Sinking away We were there and we were dying Dying away We were there and we were sinking Sinking away