| There’s no break from the sound of the siren’s call
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| It will ring in your ears right to the dawn
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| Oh mother, oh mother don’t look down
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| Cause your children, your children will soon be found
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| They were raised by your hands to love and fear
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| When they cried in the dark you held them near
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| Oh mother, oh mother don’t be sad
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| Cause your children, your children will soon come back
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| You will hear them when they call across the sky
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| And find them forever in that sweet by and by
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| When it seems like the sky around you falls
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| And those faces you love you can’t recall
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| Oh mother, oh mother don’t you frown
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| Cause your children, your children are round you now
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| You will hear them when they call across the sky
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| And find them forever in that sweet by and by
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| And find them forever in the sweet by and by |