Slow the years go by They stole your man off to war Will you see the child As you sing battle song And it pains me To think of the soldiers plight I will pray For your God to guide you home And she cried for the soldiers return Despair of feeling alone for so long By the light of a candle that burns For his life For the day of the soldiers return Hear the cannons fire Lost voices echo in the night See the spoils of war Young men are falling (ooh) Hear the drummer Marching over the hill Love returning And the graves of the battle are still And she cried for the soldiers return Despair of feeling alone for so long By the light of a candle that burns For his life For the day of the soldiers return Hear the drummer Marching over the hill Love returning And the graves of the battle are still And she cried for the soldiers return Despair of feeling alone for so long By the light of a candle that burns For his life For the day of the soldiers return (Young men are falling)