Route 1 Box 144

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His dying barely made the morning 
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paper
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And they summed it up in twenty 
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words or more
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Killed in action leaves wife and 
baby
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At Route 1 Box 144


[Verse 2]
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He grew up on a little farm just 
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a couple of miles out of town
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As a boy he worked in his daddy's 
field
And when his daddy could spare him, 
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he hired out to the neighbors
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For whatever they could pay him, he 
was thought of as just average a 
good boy
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Nothing more the average amount of 
friends
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He married his high school 
sweetheart
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They brought a little plot of ground
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Couple of miles out of town on a 
mailbox it said
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Route 1 Box 144
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Well back in town there were very 
few people that really knew him
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Because he hardly ever came to town
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Except for maybe on Saturdays of 
course the usual crew was always 
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there
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But he didn't spent a lot of times 
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with the usual crew, he took care of
 his business
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Bought what he had to have or could
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 afford for his family and went back
 to his little farm
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With a baby on the way he went to 
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the army and it was a short while
That the news came that he was 
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killed in action
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His body was sent back on a plane 
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and then by train
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And then they brought the body from
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 the train station to Route 1 Box 
144


[Otro]
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He never did great things to be 
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remembered
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He'd never been away from home 
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before
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But you'd've thought that he was 
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president or something
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At Route 1 Box 144