there s no break from the sound of the siren s call it will ring in your ears right to the dawn oh mother oh mother don t look down cause your children your children will soon be found they were raised by your hands to love and fear when they cried in the dark you held them near oh mother oh mother don t be sad cause your children your children will soon come back you will hear them when they call across the sky and find them forever in that sweet by and by when it seems like the sky around you falls and those faces you love you can t recall oh mother oh mother don t you frown cause your children your children are round you now you will hear them when they call across the sky and find them forever in that sweet by and by and find them forever in the sweet by and by