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Bring The Boys Back Home Tab

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C         D         G
Bring the boys back home

C         D         G
Bring the boys back home

C               D                 G   D   C
Don't leave the children on their own

Csus      D7        Em
Bring the boys back home

Bring The Boys Back Home Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture hamadi Wanna Be	#1 by hamadi alameddine at Aug 3, 1978 at 10:31 PM EST
	the scene with this song is one of my favorites from the movie.

No Picture jimmy Wanna Be	#2 by jimmy rodrigues at Aug 1, 1979 at 10:53 PM EST
	why the hell can't we edit our posts? Anyways, I don't think a literal interpretation of this song is wrong, it's just that the authors intended for this song to say more than what is at the surface.

No Picture nick Professional	#3 by nick Sutliff at Apr 22, 1983 at 3:29 AM EST
	Bring the men back to their familys. Their death waste perfectly good ordinary lives. Listen to "When the Tigers Broke Free" for a better understanding

No Picture Jordan Rhythm Player	#4 by Jordan at Oct 31, 1992 at 2:21 PM EST
	"Wrong! Do it again!" "Time to go!" (Knock knock knock knock) "Are you feeling okay?" "There's a man answering but he keeps hanging up!" "Is there anybody out there?"

No Picture D.J Wanna Be	#5 by D.J Mortensen at Aug 17, 1995 at 9:12 PM EST
	yea this songs pretty simple to understand...but pretty wierd in the wall (movie) when the people are singing it. i dunno...just odd

No Picture Chris Average	#6 by Chris H... at Jul 24, 2000 at 11:35 AM EST
	Well, Roger is wrong..it's about bringing the boys back home. Hence the lyric "bring the boys back home"

No Picture michiel Wanna Be	#7 by michiel adams at Oct 28, 2002 at 10:04 AM EST
	It's more than literal, werumm. girfanman is right, this song is about the importance of family, society, relationships. He hates the war because it destroys these things needlessly, resulting in people creating walls around themselves. Not just wars, but also meaningless jobs, etc.

No Picture kevin Rhythm Player	#8 by kevin jeung at Feb 18, 2003 at 1:51 AM EST
	Exerpt from a 1979 Roger Waters interview: Waters: "...and that snaps him back to then and it precedes, what is for me anyway, is the central song on the whole album 'Bring the Boys Back Home' " Interviewer (T. Vance): "Why?" Waters: "Well, because it's partly about not letting people go off and be killed in wars, but it's also partly about not allowing rock and roll, or making cars or selling soap or getting involved in biological research or anything that anybody might do, not letting that become such an important and "jolly boys game" that it becomes more important than friends, wives, children, other people." This is not my interpretation of the song, but Waters'.

No Picture Matt Average	#9 by Matt Waas at May 6, 2006 at 9:34 PM EST
	That it is, werumm. :)

No Picture NICK Wanna Be	#10 by NICK COGHLAN at Jun 23, 2006 at 10:52 AM EST
	Bring the boys back home from war. Don't make their children fatherless. Follow the story.. This is another that can't stand out on it's own..

No Picture mat Wanna Be	#11 by mat bar at Jul 30, 2006 at 8:25 AM EST
	about Pow's, Mia's.......

No Picture jake Average	#12 by jake battkoo at Sep 17, 2006 at 7:35 PM EST
	According to Roger this song is about not letting anything (including war) become so important that you forget about what's really important to you. I would have thought it was about bringing people back from the war, but Roger said in an interview that that's what it's about. I guess it's open to interpratation anyway, though. ^_^

No Picture Ashley Rhythm Player	#13 by Ashley 666 at Sep 24, 2006 at 3:54 AM EST
	Good song, but it truly can't hold much meaning by itself. But when put into context with the rest of The Wall, it makes perfect sense and it fits.

No Picture connor Average	#14 by connor gooley at Sep 24, 2006 at 11:13 PM EST
	I heard there were these boys who Waters knew who had a home where children were left outside, so Waters got the rest of Pink Floyd together and protested in front of the house chanting "Bring the boys back home.

No Picture Brandon Average	#15 by Brandon Weathers at Feb 8, 2007 at 2:09 AM EST
	It's also tied in with "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)".

No Picture Lyssa CHAOS Average	#16 by Lyssa CHAOS at Feb 18, 2007 at 3:13 AM EST
	^^ Wrong. You are talking the song and adding the context of the entire album to your opinion. This is just ONE song, and this ONE song is a plea to BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME..does that make sense? CAnt you really see how silly your over analysis sounds when there are only 4 lines to the entire song, 3 of which are identical?

No Picture steve Wanna Be	#17 by steve hoffmann at Feb 20, 2007 at 5:43 AM EST
	What's so odd about it kornchild? Pink Floyd did a lot of stuff that was a little out of the ordinary- that's what makes them so great..and the fact the song that is just a chorus and still sounds really, really inspiring is a credit to them.

No Picture austin Lead Player	#18 by austin at Aug 21, 2007 at 5:00 PM EST
	welllllllll...ok. I guess you could argue that this is a universal call from all those people, being how Water's nor Gilmore sing it, rather the families, wives, children etc. BUT, lyric-wise I don't see how you can read all that into it. Maybe if you saw the video or heard the song, thro the voices of those people..you might realize the significance.. Well at least we can all agree that the song is awesome.

No Picture Razzle Wanna Be	#19 by Razzle jester at Sep 5, 2007 at 2:45 PM EST
	I heard he's a giant chicken!