Hear the angel whisper, hear the children sing with sorrow As they all go marching round and round, the games of peace The boy from California win those seven medals shining Did he race like all his brothers, eleven lives now cease The winds of Black September slowly fall upon the peace Hear the fife and drumming, hear the bagpipe mourn with sorrow As they're marching now a plague to dance the Belfast skies Those children in the rubble are they simple small tin soldiers Have they seen the saints of death become the heroes in their lives Will the winds of Black September fan the fire into their eyes? Hear the Angel whisper is the fighting really over Shall we all go rally round and round, our flag unfurled Or will they send our boys from the fields of Southeast Asia To the walls of old Jerusalem Will the winds of Black September fall like shrouds upon the world