They have said you needn't go to the front to face the foe;
They have left you with jour women and your children safe at home;
They have spared you from the crash of the murderous guns that flash
And the horrors and the madness and the death across the foam.
But it's your fight, just the same, and your country still must claim
The splendor of your manhood and the best that you can do;
In a thousand different ways through the dark and troubled days,
You must stand behind the nation that has been so good to you.
You're exempt from shot and shell, from the havoc and the hell
That have robbed the world of gladness; you have missed the sterner fate