I Remember

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My grandpa fought in World War II

My uncle fought in ‘Nam
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My father was too young

He went to school and met my mom
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And her dad always told us stories 
around dinner time
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And there’s one he told when I was
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 young that sticks out in my mind
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He said ten years after daddy taught
 me bout the birds and bees
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I was stranded in Pearl Harbor 
fighting off the Japanese
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When the kamikaze pilots came and 
dove in without warning
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I was on the Arizona on a warm 
December morning

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I Remember
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When I was a younger man
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We were soldiers
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Fighting in a foreign land
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Now I’m older
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And it’s happening again

Verse 2
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It was hard to have forgiveness for 
the things they did that day
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And our President decided we should 
make their people pay
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So we dropped on Nagasaki and we cut
 ‘em down to size
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And the one we dropped on Hiroshima
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 left them vaporized
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And I heard some Christian saying, 
what would Jesus do
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What if you were on the wrong side, 
would he point the gun at you
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And they read through every word of 
Matthew, Mark and Luke and John
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So they could see if killing was 
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the side that Christ was on

Chorus
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And they separate the church and 
state

And keep God out of school
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So our governments can educate

Based upon their rules
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But people start to wonder if our 
politics make sense
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When religion is our best excuse 
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for national defense
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And when our citizens start saying 
that our wars are not ok
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And Washington keeps telling them 
God loves the USA
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And they teach us history so we can 
learn from our mistakes
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And this generation wants to know 
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how many years it takes
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To change the way we treat our 
neighbors all across the land
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Cause if we don’t change our hearts
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 we repeat the past again

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I Remember
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When I was a younger man
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We were soldiers
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Fighting in a foreign land
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Now we’re older
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And it’s happening again



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When my grandpa finished talking

We went walking, he and I
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I was thinking of the future and how
 scared I was to die
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Now my best friend’s overseas in the
 desert where it’s dry
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Fighting for our country and I need 
a reason why

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I Remember
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When he was a younger man
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Now he’s a solider
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Fighting in a foreign land
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Now we’re older
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God bring him home again