My Youngest Son Came Home Today Lyrics

The song My Youngest Son Came Home Today is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Volume 1 in the year 2006 .



My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The fife and drum beat out the time
While in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son same home today

My youngest son was a fine young man
With a wife, a daughter and two sons
And a man he would have lived and died
Till by a bullet sanctified
Now he's a saint or so they say
They brought their young saint home today

An irish sky looks down and weeps
Upon the narrow belfast streets
At children's blood in gutters spilled
In dreams of glory unfulfilled
As part of freedom's price to pay
My youngest son came home today

My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The pipe and drum beat out the time
While in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
And this time he's here to stay

Words and music: eric bogle



Billy Bragg - Volume 1

Mar 2006

  1. The Cloth ( I ) (2:50)
  2. Love Lives Here (1:41)
  3. Speedway Hero (2:37)
  4. Loving You Too Long (2:49)
  5. Loves Gets Dangerous (2:30)
  6. Man In The Iron Mask (2:15)
  7. A13 (2:25)
  8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (2:32)
  9. Myth Of Trust (2:54)
  10. This Guitar Says Sorry (2:32)
  11. It Must Be A River (2:18)
  12. Won'T Talk About It (5:04)
  13. Talking Wag Club Blues (2:56)
  14. You Got The Power (3:08)
  15. The Last Time (2:53)
  16. Back To The Old House (2:50)
  17. World Turned Upside Down (Between The Wars Ep) (2:36)
  18. Train Train (2:13)
  19. The Marriage (2:32)
  20. Ideology (3:27)
  21. Honey I'M A Big Boy Now (4:08)
  22. Power In A Union (2:49)
  23. Wishing The Days Away (2:30)
  24. The Passion (2:54)
  25. The Home Front (4:12)
  26. Sin City (3:32)
  27. Deportees (4:00)
  28. Tracks Of My Tears (2:54)
  29. The Clashing Of Ideologies (2:49)
  30. A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe (2:46)
  31. Only Bad Signs (3:09)
  32. Hold The Fort (1:48)
  33. CHILE YOUR WATERS RUN RED THROUGH SOWETO
  34. DAYS LIKE THESE (DC REMIX)
  35. JOE HILL
  36. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
  37. NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
  38. A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
  39. A MINERS LIFE
  40. The Internationale (3:49)
  41. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (1:29)
  42. The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions (4:00)
  43. Blakes Jerusalem (2:32)
  44. Nicaragua Nicaraguita (1:09)
  45. The Red Flag (3:13)
  46. My Youngest Son Came Home Today (3:08)
  47. Intro (Live) (0:58)
  48. Think Again (4:21)
  49. A13, TRUNK ROAD TO THE SEA

My Youngest Son Came Home Today