Please don’t bring him up to be sensitive.
Don’t bring him up to be kind.
Don’t bring him up to believe that a man
Can use his heart and mind.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
So, when he argues with a friend,
Teach him he should fight,
That the crunch of a jaw and flesh that’s raw
Is a source of keen delight.
He won’t be short of women;
Those Saigon girls are cute,
But he’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Please teach him how to see the world
At the Commonwealth’s expense.
Teach him killing civilians
Is essential to our defense.
Teach him to hate each foreign name,
Colour, race or tongue,
‘Cause he’ll make a happier soldier
If you brutalise him young.
He’ll make a happier soldier, Mum,
If you brutalise him young.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Don’t bring him up to be kind.
Don’t bring him up to believe that a man
Can use his heart and mind.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
So, when he argues with a friend,
Teach him he should fight,
That the crunch of a jaw and flesh that’s raw
Is a source of keen delight.
He won’t be short of women;
Those Saigon girls are cute,
But he’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Please teach him how to see the world
At the Commonwealth’s expense.
Teach him killing civilians
Is essential to our defense.
Teach him to hate each foreign name,
Colour, race or tongue,
‘Cause he’ll make a happier soldier
If you brutalise him young.
He’ll make a happier soldier, Mum,
If you brutalise him young.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
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