well it's not hard to reach back to the day un der neath an i o wa sun, runn in' to the to wer of wa ter loo, look in for the sul li van train to come and his five boys would run to the top'n' salute him as he went by , first we'd wave hel lo then we'd wave good bye dad dy good bye well its not hard to reach back to the days af-ter the at-tack on pearl and o-ver night my bud-dies turned in-to men run-nin out-a time for games and girls and the sul li van boys were not o-ver-looked un-cle sam a cal lin each by name the ver y next day they left on a mys-ter-y train so say go od-bye bye bye mrs-s sul li van and don't you cry cr y cry cry cry we re-gret to in-form you the na-vy is tak-ing your sons a-way well all five five five five so put your blue star in the win-dow in the win-dow well its not hard to reach back to her smile when she'd re-ceive a let-ter and the let-ters they sound-ed gen-re-ly the same they said they could-n't be home at least they were to-geth-er on a migh-ty fight-ing bat-tle-ship some-where in the south pa-cif-ic the let-ters nev-er got much more spe-cif-ic so say good-bye bye bye mrs-s sul-li-van and don't you cry cry cr-y cry cry we re-gret to in-form you the na-vy is keep-ing your sons a-way well all five five five five five so keep your blue star in the win-dow we-ll in the win-dow-o-o-o well it's not hard to reach back to the day when yhe war fina-lly came home un-cle sam he'll send you a tel-a-gram so he does-n't have to tell you o v-er the phone i heard she cracked up when she found out what the war had cost when all five of her boys were lost they were they were they were o-oh say good-bye bye bye mrs-s sul-li-van go a-head and cry cry cry cr-y cr-y we re-gret to in-form you that all your sons have passed a-way well all five five five five fi-i-ve so change your blue star to gold blue star to gold blue stars to gold blue stars change them to gold
