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Story behind the song
1969...the Vietnam War was raging, the Civil Rights struggle moved on without it's leader, and the Woodstock Music festival took place on Mr. Yasgar's farm. And, there in our little neighborhood called Woodlawn, in Birmingham, Alabama my brother's and I got the news that our friend Bobby Littlefield had fallen in a battle near Khe Sahn. Everything changed...........
Lyrics
BOBBY LITTLEFIELD
2009 R. DWIGHT DUNCAN
VERSE 1
I TURNED SIXTEEN IN THE SPRING OF SIXTY-NINE
WHEN THE MUSIC AND A FLOWER CHILD OPENED UP MY MIND
AND THE LYRICS OF THE POETS CRIED FOR PEACE AND LOVE
CROSBY, STILLS, AND NASH SPOKE TO THE WORLD FROM YASGARS FARM
VERSE 2
THE YEAR BEFORE I AWOKE FROM MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS
WHEN MARTIN LUTHER FELL THE DAY I TURNED FIFTEEN
I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAR AND SAID SO ON THE STREETS
BUT I NEVER DISRESPECTED THE MEN WHO BLED AND DIED FOR ME
CHORUS
AND BOBBY LITTLEFIELD LOOKED UPON THAT BLOODY HILL AT KHE SANH
NOW YOU CAN TRACE HIS NAME TO PAPER FROM THAT SACRED GRANITE WALL
AND I'VE PLAYED MY MUSIC AND WROTE A FEW SONGS
TURNED A FEW PAGES AS THE WORLD MOVED ON
VERSE 3
A MAN OF YEARS WITH A CLEARER DISTANT POINT OF VIEW
LOOKING BACK ON LIFE THROUGH A LENS NOT COLORED BY INNOCENT YOUTH
SOME THINGS I STILL BELIEVE BUT IVE COME TO KNOW SOME TRUTHS
EVIL NEVER BOWS TO A SONG OR WEAK WORDS FROM A CHOSEN FEW
CHORUS
AND BOBBY LITTLEFIELD LOOKED UPON THAT BLOODY HILL AT KHE SANH
NOW YOU CAN TRACE HIS NAME TO PAPER FROM THAT SACRED GRANITE WALL
AND I'VE PLAYED MY MUSIC AND WROTE A FEW SONGS
TURNED A FEW PAGES AS THE WORLD MOVED ON
YEAH BOBBY WENT TO VIETNAM
LAID DOWN HIS LIFE SO WE COULD STAND
ON THOSE DOWNTOWN STREETS
BACK IN SIXTY-NINE
