Soldiers Who Want to be Heroes - Alastair McDonald

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Come and take my eldest son, show him how to hold a gun

Wipe his eyes if he should cry when the bullets fly.

Give him a rifle, take his hoe, show him a field where he can go

To lay his body down and die without asking why

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Sticks and stones can break your bones and even names can hurt us

But the thing that hurts us all are leaders who desert us

So don’t you think its time to weed the leaders that no longer lead

From the people of the land who’d long to see their sons again?

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Hut two three four

When they fall they’ll send some more

Five six seven eight

Send us down we just can’t wait

God if men could only see the lessons taught by history

That all the singers of this song cannot right a single wrong

Let all men of good will stay in the fields they have to till

Feed the mouths they have to fill and cast away their arms

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero

But there are millions who want to be civilians

But there are millions who want to be civilians

But there are millions who want to be civilians