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Show TM GOING ACROSS FOR YOU I H T'M going across for you, Mother, M I'm going across for you You never thought when I was a kid H And played at soldiering, too,- H And drew my little tin saber out , B To capture a pirate crew, H That I would ever a soldier be, H So far away from you H But I'm going across for you, Mother, H I'm going acrosis for you. 1 I'm going across for you, Mother, JM I'm going across for you The Germans talk of their Fatherland, I love my father, too. H But Motherland it is to me ! Whenever I think of you. H You gave me life, you gave me Heart, H And I give them back to you. H For I'm going across for your, Mother, I'm going across for you. H I'm going across for you, Mother, H I'm going across for you. H To you the Hun shall never come H To do what he can do H I think of Belgium, I think of France, H Of submarine, Zeppelin, too, H Of the women and children who went H to death H With the Lusitania's crew. H So I'm going across for you, Mother, H I'm going across for you. H I'm going across for you, Mother, H I'm going across for you. H And day and night I'll dream of home H Until my dreams come true, H And in my heart 'neath the midday H H And under the starlit dew H There'll be an echo of your prayers H For I'll be praying, too, I'm going across for you, Mother, H I'm .going across for you. H I'm coming back to you, Mother, H I'm coming back to you, H And won't we laugh at my little .tin JM sword H And the things I used to do? H And your Baby, just think, a Veteran H I, (With maybe a medal or. two), H And the Prince of Peace, yes Christ, 'Himself; M Will- bless the earth anew And I'm coming back to you Mother, JM I'm coming back to you. H Charles Cotesworth Pinokney, |