WOMAN ONE

Did you see them

Going off to fight?



WOMAN TWO

Children of the barricade

Who didn't last the night?



WOMAN THREE

Did you see them

Lying where they died?

Someone used to cradle them

And kiss them when they cried.



WOMAN FOUR

Did you see them lying side by side?



WOMAN FIVE

Who will wake them?



WOMAN SIX

No one ever will.



WOMAN TWO

No one ever told them

That a summer day can kill.



WOMAN SEVEN

They were schoolboys

Never held a gun...

Fighting for a new world

That would rise up like the sun.



WOMAN THREE

Where's that new world now the fighting's done?



WOMAN FOUR 

Nothing changes.



WOMAN SEVEN

Nothing ever will.



WOMAN EIGHT

Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.



WOMAN SEVEN

Same old story. What's the use of tears?



WOMAN FIVE

What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?



ALL 

Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning

Through the years. 



Turning, turning, turning through the years

Minutes into hours and the hours into years.

Nothing changes. Nothing ever can

Round about the roundabout and back where you began.

Round and round and back where you began!