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DID YOU hear the children singing, O my brothers? Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past? In the sunshine and the rain, As they'll never sing again-- Hear the little school-girls singing as our troops went swinging past?
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers? Did you hear the children singing for the first man and the last? As they marched away and vanished, To a tune we thought was banished-- Did you hear the children singing for the future and the past?