When the Soldiers Come

When the Soldiers Come
by
Tom Roach

Oh Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
please can you tell me
when the soldiers come
will they the children kill?

Yes, they will kill the children.
Children are the Nation’s future
and the soldiers don’t want that.

Oh Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
please can you tell me
when the soldiers come
will they kill the Aunts and Uncles
and the Grans and Gramps?

If they stand gains’t tyranny,
my child, they will surely die.

Oh Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
please can you tell me
when the soldiers come
what about the young?

They’ll be on the streets
dear child, watering the flowers.
We will not see their like again......

Oh Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
please can you tell me
when the soldiers come
will they kill you and me?

No, that they cannot do.
We are the Nation round the world.
We are too many
and they, thank God, too few.