(Don't Put Your Boys In The Army) Mrs. Ward - The Idle Race

One Friday afternoon at three o’clock

A passing lady looked into a shop

Her eyes lit up as this the sign she read

Recruiting Office, that is what it said

Excitedly she stepped inside to see

How her sons would fare if they were military

The man in charge to her was very sweet

And said, «Please sign here on this little sheet»

But when she got home, her mind drew many fears

The message from the soldiers in the war rang in her ears

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh

At six o’clock the lads came home from work

She told them what she’d done, they went berserk

«We'll have to go to war and fight and die»

And Mrs. Ward, she wiped a tear from her eye

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh oh

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh

Don’t put your boys in the army, Mrs. Ward

You know they’ll only waste away, oh