Boys of Major Lyrics

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