Keep The Home Fires Burning

Keep The Home Fires Burning - John McCormack (麥考梅克)/Mary Ellis/Olive Gilbert

They were summoned from the hillside

They were called in from the glen

And the country found them ready at the stirring call for men

Let no tears add to their hardship

As the soldiers pass alongand although your heart is breaking

Make it sing this cheery song

Keep the home fires burning

While your hearts are yearning

Though your lads are far away

They dream of home there's a silver lining

Through the dark cloud shining

Turn the dark cloud inside out

Till the boys come home

Over seas there came a pleading

Help a nation in distress

And we gave our glorious laddies

Honor made us do no less

For no gallant son of freedom

To a tyrant's yoke should bend

And a noble heart must answer

To the sacred call of friend

Keep the home fires burning

While your hearts are yearning

Though your lads are far away

They dream of home there's a silver lining

Through the dark cloud shining

Turn the dark cloud inside out

Till the boys come home