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I am a veteran of the war |
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I up and joined the army back an 1964 |
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At sixteen |
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I just had to be a man at any cost |
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I volunteered for |
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Vietnam where |
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I got my leg shot off |
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I recall a quote form a movie |
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That said, "Who's more a manThan a man with a reasonThat's worth dyin' for" |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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But now I stand at the back of the line |
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When it comes to gettin' ahead |
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They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill |
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To stop the big urge |
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I might have for the wrong kind of thrill |
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They put a gun in my hand and said, "Shoot until he's dead" |
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But it's hard to kill when "Please I'm your friend" |
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Echoes through your head |
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Brought up in church |
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Taught no man should take another's life |
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But then put in the jungle |
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Where life has no price, no |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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But now I stand at the back of the line |
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When it comes to gettin' ahead |
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Back in the world the paper reads today |
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Another war is in the brewing |
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But what about the lives of yesterday |
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And the many happy families that have been ruined |
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My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie too |
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But they say |
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I have no right to tell them how they should do |
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They laugh and say, "Quit braggin''Bout the war you should have never been in" |
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But my mind is so brain-washed |
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I'd probably go back and do it again |
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I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart |
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With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop, no |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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But now I stand at the back of the line |
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When it comes to gettin' ahead |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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Now I stand at the back of the line |
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When it comes to gettin' ahead |
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Would you believe |
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I do?They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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They had me standing on the front line |
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But now I stand at the back of the line |
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When it comes to gettin' ahead |
