I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / music by Al. Piantadosi lyrics by Alfred Bryan

VERSE 01: Ten million soldiers to the war have gone,/Who may never return again./Ten millions mothers’ hearts must break/For the ones who died in vain./Head bowed down in sorrow/In her lonely years,/I heard a mother murmur thro’ her tears:
CHORUS: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,/I brought him up to be my 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.”
VERSE 02: 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!