a socio-political commentary

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A variation on an autobiographical theme....the personal
price of war and its aftermath....

I went to be a soldier 2 (copyright 2007 by Lonnie Crash)




I went to be a soldier, away in a far off land

fighting for some reasons now I still can't understand

I was just 19 years old when I saw that distant shore

too young to drink, too young to vote

but I was old enough for war, old enough for war



the things we did and the things we saw,

they put us to the test

we knew in order to survive, we had to do our best

but the best ain't always good enough when the bullets start to fly

for some are missed and some are hit and some are bound to die

yes, some are bound to die



I don't who I'm fighting, I'll never know his name

If I saw him on the street today

would I kill him just the same?

I went down to the church house and I kneeled on down to pray

Lord said: boy, you owe me now, tell me how you going to pay?

tell me how you gonna pay?


Hey mr politician, you are an evil snake

for every dollar that you give, it's a thousand you will take

you're saying now we have to fight in another foreign land

you claim that it's for liberty, but you hold that demon's hand

you're holding that demon's hand.




Near sixty thousand names are writ'n on a long black granite wall

and it's only right we honor those who sacrificed their all

but before we send our children off to fight and maybe die

let's be sure our cause is right, and that war is justified

that war is justified, that the war is justified.....

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