Two Little Boys

Verse 1:

Two little boys had two little toys, each had a wooden horse.

Gayly they played each summers day, warriors both of course.

Then one little chap he had a mishap, broke off his horse's head.

Cried for his toy then wept with joy as his young playmate said:

Verse 2:

"Did you think I would leave you crying when there's room on my horse for two?

Climb up here Joe and don't be crying I can go just as fast with two.

When we grow up we'll both be soldiers and our horses will not be toys.

And I wonder if we'll remember when we were two little boys."

Verse 3:

Cannons roared loud and in the mad crowd, wounded and dying lay.

Up goes a shout, a horse dashes out, out from the ranks so blue.

Gallops away to where Joe lay, then came a voice he knew:

Verse 4:

"Did you think I would leave you dying when there's room on my horse for two?

Climb up here Jack we'll soon be flying, I can go just as fast with two.

What you say Jack I'm all a tremble, perhaps it's the battle's noise.

But I think it's that I remember when we were two little boys.