Whatever happened to the kings of your school's Christmas play?
What happened to the quarterbacks who always saved the day?
What happened to the Romeo's who stole young hearts away?
Winds picked them up and took them far..
Our boys were blown away to war.

Remember Billy Schneider and his stack of baseball cards?
Or what about Big Joe LaRoc, the leader of the Lords?
They tell me that young Jimmy's gone, who used to mow the yards...
From Viet Nam to Zanzibar
Our boys were blown away to war.

Those schoolboy faces turn to shock as bullets pass their heads,
From innocence to horror as they see the blood they shed.
Instead of fighting just for fun, they fight for life, instead.
Young innocence is scattered far
When boys are blown away to war.

No boys return from battle lines, for into men they've grown
With faces aged a thousand years from what the war has shown.
Cheer the lucky who return and, for the rest, a moan
A purple heart or silver star
In place of boys who went to war.