Mother's Pride

written by John Williams

She knows,
She takes his hand,
And prays the child will understand,
At the door they watch the men go by,
In the clothes that Daddy wore.

A Mother's pride,
Her baby Boy,
His Father's eyes,
He's a soldier waiting for a War,
The time will come to hold a gun,
His Father's Son.

And as he grows,
He hears the band,
And takes the step from Boy to Man,
At the shore she waves her Son goodbye,
Like the man she did before.

A Mother's pride,
Just a boy,
His country's eyes,
He's a soldier waving at the shore,
And in her heart the time has come,
To loose a Son.

And all the Husbands,
All the Sons,
All the Lover's gone,
They make no difference,
No difference in the end!

You can still hear the Women say,
Your Daddy died a Hero,
In the Name of God and Men!

A Mother's pride,
Crazy boy,
His life-less eyes,
He's a soldier now forever more,
He'll hold a gun till Kingdom Come.