I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier

I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier
The Peerless Quartet Lyrics


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@stevenlagoy8097

Full Lyrics:
First Verse:
Ten million soldiers to the war have gone
who may never return again.
Ten million mothers' hearts must break
for the ones who died in vain.
Heads bowed down in sorrow
in her lonely years.
I heard a mother murmur through her tears (her tears):
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
Second Verse:
What victory can cheer a mother's heart
when she looks at her blighted home?
What victory can bring her back
all she cared to call her own?
Let each mother answer
in the years to be:
"Remember that my boy belongs to me! (to me!)"
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."



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@stevenlagoy8097

Full Lyrics:
First Verse:
Ten million soldiers to the war have gone
who may never return again.
Ten million mothers' hearts must break
for the ones who died in vain.
Heads bowed down in sorrow
in her lonely years.
I heard a mother murmur through her tears (her tears):
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
Second Verse:
What victory can cheer a mother's heart
when she looks at her blighted home?
What victory can bring her back
all she cared to call her own?
Let each mother answer
in the years to be:
"Remember that my boy belongs to me! (to me!)"
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
Chorus:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier"
"I brought him up to be my pride and joy. (pride and joy.)"
"Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder?"
"To shoot some other mother's darling boy?"
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles.
It's time to lay the sword and gun away.
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."

@weboman

thank you

@tailnowag8753

Thank you!

@isabellagliatta5254

actually makes me tear up

@kilter-au5011

the lyic Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder, To kill some other mother’s darling boy?. really hits me hard

@weboman

Such beautiful music

@deewesthill1213

The beginning phrase of the music is from the beginning of "The Minstrel Boy To the War Has Gone".

@lrfcarreviews2570

Was this recorded in December 1914 or January 6 1915? Certain sources give different answers.

@the78prof72

I tend to go by the DAHR ( https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000022523/39736-I_didnt_raise_my_boy_to_be_a_soldier ) but that's no guarantee.

@lrfcarreviews2570

@@the78prof72 Understood. Sources this old can be tough to find.

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