When the Boys Come Marching Home Lyrics - David Bowie

1 How to make amends for the things they said

2 The girls avoid the stormy sky

3 But I and my cloudy face

4 Will be gone, high-tailing out of here

5 Is the lights a-blazing in their lonely town?

6 I love the little cars at dawn

7 But I and my heathen heart

8 Will be lain upon some foreign shore

9 Here's the saddest Joe on the corner of the town

10 "Listen to the words!" he cries

11 I love him in his craziness, his tatters and his courage

12 He'll thumb his nose at the straight and true

13 When the boys come marching home

14 They'll fly his rags from the highest tree

15 When the boys come marching home

16 (when the boys come marching home)

17 (home, marching home)

18 Aching for some innocence and peace of mind

19 While the moon pulls up its net of souls

20 The sun presses down on my brave new world

21 But, in truth, i don't feel brave at all

22 Leave it all behind me to the townies and the wags

23 The kids who never learned to smile

24 While I and the cobbled nag I ride

25 Stumble down another weary mile

26 Here's to those who cluster,

27 Walking through the wars

28 The girls who never close 'til dawn

29 They rag upon the feeble

30 And they swan around the stronger

31 But their eyes are fixed on the edge of town

32 When the boys come marching home

33 They'll slide from view - tiny, two by two

34 When the boys come marching home

35 (home, marching home)

36 (home, marching home)

37 When the boys come marching home

38 (when the boys come marching home)

39 Boys come marching home

40 (home, marching home)

41 (home, when the boys come marching home)

42 (home, marching home)

43 (home)

44 (when the boys come marching home)