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Don McLean lyrics
The Grave lyrics
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.
When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
He's gone,
But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.
And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.
But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.
He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
"They can't let me die! The can't let me die here!
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave!
The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave."
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.
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Wonderful Night lyrics
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Jump lyrics
Color TV Blues lyrics
When Love Begins lyrics
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Wonderful Baby lyrics
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Bronco Bill's Lament lyrics
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Dreidel lyrics
Babylon lyrics
Sister Fatima lyrics
Till Tomorrow lyrics
Everybody Loves Me Baby lyrics
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Winterwood lyrics
Empty Chairs lyrics
Superman's Ghost lyrics
To Have And To Hold lyrics
Everyday lyrics
American Pie lyrics
Crying lyrics
And I Love You So lyrics
Vincent lyrics
It's Just The Sun lyrics
Castles In The Air lyrics
Left For Dead On The Road Of Love lyrics
Jerusalem lyrics
Isn't It Strange lyrics
Crazy Eyes lyrics
Believers lyrics
This Little Girl (Daddy-O) lyrics
The River Of Love lyrics
Little Cowboy lyrics
Angry Words lyrics
You Who Love The Truth lyrics
Siamese Twins lyrics
One In A Row lyrics
Infinity lyrics
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