Lucero - War

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i got drafted at nineteen
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me and a bunch of boys from home
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january forty – three ,
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drove out to pine bluff and signed on

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went to basic south of birmingham
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put me on west coast bound train
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spent three days out in san diego
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and they shipped me back east again

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left a port out of new york
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slept for months in british rain
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tore it up down in london town
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and they shipped me back out again

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the preacher said boys he who is killed tonight
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will dine with the lord in paradise
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one boy spoke up , said preacher come on
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eat your supper with us

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never talk about those first days
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lots of friends left behind
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but i made it all the way across france
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and i fought at the maginot line

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road a tank into belgium
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liked them better than the french
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like my Daddy , thirty years before
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i did my time in a trench

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lots of days there’s no water
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but the liquor kept me warm
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the cellars were stocked to their ceilings with booze
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so i carried a bottle with my gun

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the preacher said boys he who is killed tonight
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will dine with the lord in paradise
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one boy spoke up , said preacher come on
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eat your supper with us

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three times i made sergeant
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i’m not that kind of man
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and pretty much just as quick as i could
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i get busted back to private again

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cause taking orders never suited me
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giving them out was much worse
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i could not stand to get my friends killed
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so i took care of myself first

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now i know that don’t sound right
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don’t think too bad of me
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now it keeps me up nights
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what i could have done differently

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the preacher said boys he who is killed tonight
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will dine with the lord in paradise
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one boy spoke up , said preacher come on
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eat your supper with us

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i’d be no guest at the table of the lord
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his food was not to be mine
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cause i cursed his name every chance that i could
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and i recon that’s why i’m still alive