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Now the Captain called me to his bed |
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He fumbled for my hand |
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"Take these silver bars" he said |
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"I'm giving you command" |
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"Command of what, there's no one here |
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There's only you and me |
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All the rest are dead or in retreat |
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Or with the enemy" |
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"Complain, complain, that's all you've done |
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Ever since we lost |
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If it's not the Crucifixion |
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Then it's the Holocaust" |
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"May Christ have mercy on your soul |
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For making such a joke |
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Amid these hearts that burn like coal |
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And the flesh that rose like smoke" |
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"I know that you have suffered, lad |
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But suffer this awhile |
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Whatever makes a soldier sad |
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Will make a killer smile" |
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"I'm leaving, Captain, I must go |
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There's blood upon your hand |
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But tell me, Captain, if you know |
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Of a decent place to stand" |
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"There is no decent place to stand |
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In a massacre |
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But if a woman take your hand |
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Go and stand with her" |
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"I left a wife in Tennessee |
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And a baby in Saigon |
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I risked my life, but not to hear |
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Some country western song" |
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"Ah, but if you cannot raise your love |
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To a very high degree |
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Then you're just the man I've been thinking of |
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So come and stand with me" |
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"Your standing days are done", I cried |
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"You'll rally me no more |
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I don't even know what side |
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We fought on, or what for" |
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"I'm on the side that's always lost |
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Against the side of Heaven |
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I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed |
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Against the side of Seven" |
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"And I've read the Bill of Human Rights |
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And some of it was true |
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But there wasn't any burden left |
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So I'm laying it on you" |
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Now the Captain he was dying |
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But the Captain wasn't hurt |
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The silver bars were in my hand |
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Pinned them to my shirt |
