Lyrics | Cheer Up, Mother Verse: “Goodbye, mother mine, time to fall in line,” said a soldier unafraid, “When they march away you’d not have me stay while my country needs my aid, Other mother’s sons bravely shoulder guns, they are going, why not I? Let me see you smile for a smile’s worthwhile, when it’s time to say goodbye”: Refrain: “Cheer up, mother, smile and don’t be sighing, dry the tear drop in your eye, We’ll come back with colors flying, after the war clouds roll by, Homeward bound, then, we’ll come sailing, mother, we will win out, never fear, Dad came home from fields of glory, maybe I’ll repeat his story, So cheer up, mother dear.” Verse: “Mother don’t you know how long ago Dad would sit me on his knees, Point to his old gun, tell me how they’d won many hard earned victories, Maybe years from now I’ll tell my son how I helped keep our country free, Maybe mother you will be telling, too, what my daddy told to me.” Refrain |