A 1918 popular song suggested by Peter Masri. Words by J. E. Dempsey. Music by Joseph A. Burke.
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For his thoughts keep turning homeward
And their pray’rs come drifting back
That’s his chaplet and his guide to victory
But bullets are his beads and on his knees he pleads
That each one will help to end the misery
Ev’ry shot a pearl, each pearl a pray’r
He fights untill he falls, “Lost in action”
Comes the message o’er the sea
And while the nation mourns his loss
His dear old mother bears the cross
That’s a soldier’s rosary
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