Jamie’s going off to war tomorrow  Trading in his shovel for a big old gun  Time to stand up time to be a man  Putting the trigger in his right hand  But she needs you now she can’t do it herself  Forced to put her dreams and her future on the shelf  Think of your wife your child on the way  She don’t wanna be a widow at his young age    We hear the sounds of bombs dropping  It’s ringing in our ears and we can feel it when you’re falling down    Twenty-one guns fired in the middle of the night  Twenty-one guns were blazing in the thick of the fight  Twenty-one guns one shot for every year of his life  Reaching for the courage to pull you through  But your back’s up against the sharp edge of the knife    We’re hanging ribbons of gold on the trees in the yard  And your thoughts are with us no matter how far you are  We’re always here with you  And it kills us inside knowing there’s nothing we can do  Bad news strikes the girls left alone  Left to raise her child and fend for her own  Another family that’s torn by war  Another soldier’s face down in the dirt