Rally 'round the drum, boys, rally 'round the drum We'll need all your powder, we'll need all your guns Rally 'round the drum, boys, rally round the drum We'll need all your courage, we'll need all your sons Hear the drummer's anthem call across the land It grows ever stronger through every boy and man Kiss your wife and children, that's what we're fighting for Then come and join the rest as we go marching off to war! Now the time has come, men, now the time is near No time for hesitation, no time for showing fear We have but two thousand, we'll need a thousand more When we have three thousand we'll all march off to war. Hear the drummer's anthem call across the land It grows ever stronger through every boy and man Kiss your wife and children, that's what we're fighting for Then come and join the rest as we go marching off to war! Hear the drumbeat growing as it echoes in your chest As we all march forward feel pity for the rest Like the wives and children they'll be safe and sound But they'll never know the glory of a hero's renown. Hear the drummer's anthem call across the land It grows ever stronger through every boy and man Kiss your wife and children, that's what we're fighting for Then come and join the rest as we go marching off to war! We'll fight them in the valley, we'll fight them on the plains We'll heed the drummer's call till the last of them are slain We'll fight them in the mountains, we'll fight them on the sea We will not stop fighting till death or victory Hear the drummer's anthem call across the land It grows ever stronger through every boy and man Kiss your wife and children, that's what we're fighting for Then come and join the rest as we go marching off to war! Rally 'round the drum, boys, rally 'round the drum We'll need all your powder, we'll need all your guns Rally 'round the drum, boys, rally round the drum We'll need all your courage, we'll need all your sons