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Leonard Wood
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Based on a true story in Iraq.
acoustic singersongwriter
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Dave Preston is an acoustic folk artist who performs original music in Upstate New York. He is also one half of Half Pint Harmony, a Rochester based duo provid
is a songwriter from Western New York State. When not performing solo he plays his guitar for the at local child care centers and preschools with his friend, Bev.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #241
Peak in subgenre #40
Author
David Elon Preston
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2005 David Elon Preston
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November 11, 2005
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MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Fort Leonard Wood is an Army Basic Training camp in Missouri (my son trained there a few years ago). This song is about an incident that occured in Tall Afar (in Iraq near Syria)earlier this year. A car filled with a family returning home was mistaken for insurgents and fired upon by US soldiers. The parents were killed, leaving the children orphans. Newsweek did a haunting story on it last April and the idea of writing a song about it has been in my head ever since.
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It’s getting pretty late I wonder what time it is in Omaha Must be something I ate Disagrees with me Been up all night long Blood turned black on my combat boots Ain’t done nothing wrong But I still feel sick inside They told me back at Leonard Wood That freedom don’t come free All that stands between us and them Is me I vowed to keep America Far from evil’s will To keep my people safe I kill How could we possibly know The car was just a family We tried to make them halt But they did not understand I held a little girl Her mother’s blood on my combat boots I never saw her tears Back in Leonard Wood Back in Leonard Wood Copyright 2005 David Elon Preston
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