The army and the navy
They never will agree
Till all the men and all the boys
Are gone from our country

Don't you go
Don't you go, my son
Don't you go
Don't you go, my son

The proud and the powerful
In whose hands we lie
They never will be pleasured
Till all we women cry

Don't you go
Don't you go, my son
Don't you go
Don't you go, my son

Mastery, the misery
They call the arts of war
Must never triumph over peace
As it has done before

Don't you go
Don't you go, my son
Don't you go
Don't you go, my son
Don't you go
Don't you go, my son
Don't you go now
Don't you go, my son