Home Fires Lyrics

I'm up and dressed at 6AM with two young mouths to feed

I drop them at the sitter's house, then it's off to the factory

And late tonight I'll watch the news like so many nights before

For Jenny's o'er the ocean fighting the Desert War

And it's long hard days and endless nights

Awake in bed alone

But I'll keep the home fires burning bright

Till Jenny marches home

Times were hard and jobs were few with layoffs on the way

And Uncle Sam, he came to town with local work and pay

My Jenny signed the papers, we lived well for a month or two

But now they've taken her away and what am I to do

And it's long hard days and endless nights

Awake in bed alone

But I'll keep the home fires burning bright

Till Jenny marches home

I think about our history,] time and time again

And down through all the centuries the wars were waged by men

And wasn't it a woman's place to wait and hope and pray

Oh God, I am a lonely man with my love far away

Morning comes and work I must, from crack of dawn till night

But now I see the strength in those who never went to fight

For brave are they who stay behind and tend to hearth and home

And I'm as good a patriot as any man I know

And it's long hard days and endless nights

Awake in bed alone

But I'll keep the home fires burning bright

Till Jenny marches home

And it's long hard days and endless nights

Awake in bed alone

But I'll keep the home fires burning bright

Till Jenny comes marching home