Song was inspired by a TV Special on Memorial day and Arlington National Cemetary
Singer-Songwriter from New Hampshire
I'm a singer-songwriter from New Hampshire. My desire is to write songs about real life and tell stories. I hope above all else that God is seen and glorified by my simple expressions of music and the opening of my heart.
Story behind the song
I wrote this on Memorial day morning while watching a documentary on Arlington National Cemetery. In the documentary, they showed a mom going to her sons grave every weekend and writing him a letter. They tracked her through the year. I was blown away at the fact that there are 250000 graves there. We take our freedom for granted. Thanks to all of you who fight for us so I can even write words like this.
Lyrics
Arlington Row
By Lonnie Crampsey
Memorial Day 2007
I saw her standing there with tears in her eyes
Pen and paper in her hands, And all her questions, why?
With pain expressed beyond the grave for someone that shed known
Every weekend you will find her on this Arlington row
Reaching out into the past
Seeking answers from her God
Her memories are all that lasts
This is now her new found lot
Ive never felt so proud, and Ive never seen your face
Glancing from cross to clouds, in this amazing place
Ive never count the cost, for what my freedom holds
A quarter of a million lost, on these Arlington rows
Some from the civil war, brothers that chose their sides
They battled for the blue and grey, then they gave up their lives
From the Arizona on its side To D-Days bloody shores
Laid out before my eyes on these Arlington rows
Reaching out into the past
Seeking answers from my God
History is all that lasts
Repeating this path that were on
The burden of my easy life, laid out in perfect lines
Centuries of peoples lives, and the wars in which they died
Forgive me if I take for granted, this freedom that I know
The cost is buried here for me in this Arlington row
Reaching out beyond myself
With a humbled and grateful heart
Freedom is much more then wealth
That realization is a start
