Billy Bragg - My Youngest Son Came Home Today (with Michael Stipe)

My Youngest Son Came Home Today (with Michael Stipe) is taken from Billy Bragg - The Roaring Forty. Pre-order the album from the official store now: Available on 1LP Orange Vinyl, 3LP Green Vinyl, Super Deluxe Box Set, Deluxe 2CD, as well as Signed Test Pressings. Pre-order now: Lyrics by My youngest son came home today His friends marched with him all the way The flutes and drums beat out the time As in his box of polished pine Like dead meat on a butcher’s tray My youngest son same home today My youngest son was a fine young man With a wife, a daughter and a son A man he would have lived and died Till by a bullet sanctified Now he’s a saint or so they say They brought their saint home today Above the narrow Belfast streets An Irish sky looks down and weeps On children’s blood in gutters spilled For dreams of freedom unfulfilled As part of freedom’s price to pay My youngest son came home today My youngest son came home today His friends marched with him all the way The flutes and drums beat out the time As in his box of polished pine Like dead meat on a butcher’s tray My youngest son came home today And this time he’s home to stay