[00:00.000]Army dreamers[00:22.139]Our little army boy[00:24.146]Is coming home from B.F.P.O.[00:27.223]I've a bunch of purple flowers[00:29.627]To decorate mammy's hero[00:32.346]Mourning in the aerodrome[00:34.595]The weather warmer, he is colder[00:37.261]Four men in uniform[00:39.547]To carry home my little soldier[00:42.373](What could he do? Should have been a rock star)[00:45.081]But he didn't have the money for a guitar[00:47.671](What could he do? Should have been a politician)[00:50.243]But he never had a proper education[00:52.658](What could he do? Should have been a father)[00:54.933]But he never even made it to his twenties[00:58.358]What a waste, army dreamers[01:01.967]Ooh, what a waste of army dreamers[01:07.240]Tears o'er a tin box[01:10.146]Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know[01:13.210]Like a chicken with a fox[01:15.566]He couldn't win the war with ego[01:18.310]Give the kid the pick of pips[01:20.550]And give him all your stripes and ribbons[01:23.382]Now he's sitting in his hole[01:25.479]He might as well have buttons and bows[01:28.379](What could he do? Should have been a rock star)[01:31.115]But he didn't have the money for a guitar[01:33.330](What could he do? Should have been a politician)[01:36.107]But he never had a proper education[01:38.647](What could he do? Should have been a father)[01:40.884]But he never even made it to his twenties[01:44.096]What a waste, army dreamers[01:47.945]Ooh, what a waste of army dreamers[01:53.150]Ooh, what a waste of all them army dreamers[01:58.044]Army dreamers, army dreamers, oh