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