All My Brothers

Sleeping through the daytime like a child

Up right through the night time running wild

Thinking I will never be as strong as the day is long

I saw the coward day that sunk the sun

Hiding in the house where we belong

I saw the blood flow red and it ran long

And all my brothers

It’s a swift turning clock we travel on

From boy to man, from four to one

Some of us who rest and grow

Don’t need to know, don’t need to know

I still hear them all summer long

Will they let me join them one day

I still hear them all summer long

Will they turn me away

We lost three fighting Booker in Virginia

One came back with a body full of holes

I wouldn’t let my mother come and see him

All bound in blood and gold

It’s a long lonely night we gaze upon

When all the stars are dead and gone

The moon it shines on all our heads

And to the west, and to the west

I still hear them all summer long

Will they let me join them one day

I still hear them all summer long

Will they turn me away, away, away, away

I still hear them all summer long

Will they let me join them one day

I still hear them all summer long

Will they turn me away, away, away, away