i wish for peace

If only all the dead could cry out In a single roar And say don't send a mother's son To die a death in war They'd say look at how we lay Without life or limb The bullet that tore our breast so wide Has caused our eyes to dim The flash of a musket The crack of a bullets speed A small piece of death is sent To splinter bone and bleed The cannon sends a rain of death Of steel and grit and bone Pay no heed to the dying man Or take pity on his moan The orders are always the same Move forward boys make hast A yard of ground a league today Don't think of the horror and the waste The war boys, the wars for all God's on the side that's right But the devil owns the battlefield When you hear the cries at night A drummers rolls a steady beat A bugle plays a mournful tune A sword is dipped in honor For the mothers son who died too soon