Lyrics | We’re Bound to Wing with Boys Like You Verse: I saw a gray haired mother kiss her soldier boy goodbye, ‘Tho in her heart a sigh, not a teardrop dimmed her eye, He’d just received his orders, it was time to march away, And in that last fond moment, I heard her proudly say. Refrain 1: It was boys like you, at Valley Forge with Washington, and boys like you, were Minute Men at Lexington, you built up this wonderful nation then, When Lincoln called for volunteers, you answered again, It was boys like you, who fought with Grant and Sherman, and with Lee way down in Dixie too, And this will always be, a land of liberty, for we’re bound to win with boys like you. Refrain 2: It was boys like you, with Farragut’s flotilla, it was boys like you, with Dewey at Manilla, and with boys rough and ready you took San Juan Hill, Whenever you were needed you have shown Yankee skill, It was boys like you, who answered Woodrow Wilson, and are fighting now with Pershing too, We’ve never known defeat, and hi |