Bring 'Em Home

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Bring 'Em Home

A song by Pete Seeger©2004 Pete Seeger
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If you love this land of the free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em back from overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
It will make the general sad I know
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They wanna tangle with their foe
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

They want to test their grand theories
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
With the blood of you and me
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Now, we'll give no more brave young lives
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
For the gleam in someone's eyes
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

The men will cheer and the boys will shout
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Yeah, and we will all turn out
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
The church bells will ring with joy
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
To welcome our darling girls and boys
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
We will lift our voice in song
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Yeah, when Johnny comes marchin' home
Bring 'em home
Bring 'em home
Bring 'em back from overseas
If you love this land of the free
Bring 'em back from overseas
Bring 'em home
Bring 'em home

Notes

'We Shall Overcome: An Hour With Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger' was recently broadcast out of Democracy Now! Part of that interview contained a shot of this song with the comment:

'In 2004 he recorded a song about the Iraq war called "Bring Them Home." He was joined on the song by Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Billy Bragg'.

Visit the Democracy Now! webpage devoted to the interview at

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/04/1416217&mode=thread&tid=25

There you can watch online, listen online or read the transcript of the interview.

To see Bruce Springsteen singing the song onlene go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4m4uSLE9K0

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