Bring my brother back to me

Bring my brother back to me,

When this war is done,

Give us all the joys we shar'd

Ere it had begun

O bring my brother back to me,

Never more to stray,

This is all my earnest prayer,

Thro' the weary day.

Chorus:

Bring him back! bring him back!

With his smiling healthful glee,

Bring him back! bring him back!

Bring my brother back to me.

All the house is loenly now,

And my voice no more,

In the pleasant summer eves

Greets him at the door.

Never more I hear his step

By the garden gate,

While I sit in anxious tears

Knowing not his fate.

Bring my brother back to me,

From the battle strife,

Thou who watchest o'er the good

Shield his precious life.

When this war has passed away,

Safe from all alarms

Bring my brother home again,

To my longing arms.