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