Key: C
Introduction:
C F G
Listen all you people, try and understand
C F G
You may be a soldier, woman, child or man
C F
But there won't be many coming home
C F
No, there won't be many coming home
C C7 F D
Oh, there won't be many, maybe ten out of twenty,
C G C
But there won't be many coming home.
C F
Now the old folks will remember on that dark and dismal day,
C G
How their hearts were choked with pride as their children marched away
C F G
Now the glory is all gone, they are left alone
Oh, there won't be many, maybe five out of twenty
C C7 F D
If they all came back but one he was still some mother's son,
C G C
And there won't be many coming home