The Old Doubting Thomas

The old doubting Thomas is living today And most of his school friends long with the dead lay To the war cry of the leader they took up the gun And they paid with their young lives for the war to be won The young doubting Thomas he was young back then He did not march off to war with the other young men And though in his honour never a parade He feels no regret at the choice he had made. The old doubting Thomas he feels rather sad That in World war 1 he lost his young dad To his widowed mother a devoted son He promised her never to take up a gun. He still talks of the father he never did know A war hero almost nine decades ago The only regret in life he's ever had Is that he never did know the one who was his dad. The old doubting Thomas from time looking gray His grandchildren have school going children today Many of his school friends died in World War 2 And the dreams that they had were not meant to come true.