Some mother's son lies in a field
Someone has killed
some mother's son today
Head blown up
by some soldier's gun
While all the mothers
stand and wait
Some mother's son
ain't coming home today
Some mothers son
ain't got no grave
Two soldiers fighting in a trench
One soldier glances up
to see the sun
And dreams of games he played
when he was young
And then his friend
calls out his name
It stops his dream and
as he turns his head
A second later he is dead
Some mother's son lies in a field
Back home they put
his picture in a frame
But all dead soldiers
look the same
While all the parents
stand and wait
To meet their children
coming home from school
Some mother's son is lying dead
Somewhere someone is crying
Someone is trying to be so brave
But still the world keeps turning
Though all the children
have gone away
Some mother's son lies in a field
But in his mother's eyes
he looks the same
As on the day he went away
They put his picture on the wall
They put flowers
in the picture frame
Some mothers memory remains