My brother wants to be a soldier
He wants to be like me
And my brother will join the army
sometime in January
and they'll march him round the parade grounds
under the dead trees
and my brother will be a soldier
sometime in February
My brother will fight like a soldier
A hero he will be
and my brother will kill or be killed
somewhere overseas
but I hope he comes back in a pine box
than to end up like me
because fighting the war after it was over
is how I ended in the penitentiary.
Oh my brother wants to be a hero
just like he sees me
But my war is over
I'm a dead soldier
In the penitentiary.
