Dear mother how I will write this line When I know I'm counting time I'm waiting and death's my friend
To say in God we trust not for this Oh the death and glory boys not for this
Dear beloved try to write to you Through the senseless deaths of a million troops I'm waiting my time is near As my tears wash away my years
To say in God we trust not for this Oh the death and glory boys not for this
The haunting flares where my friends bleed I see the face of the enemy Of a man or boy who is just like me Cut through like winters rain
And if I could ever sleep again I know till the end of time I'd hear Dear mother I'll write to you