Key: C major
Verse 1
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and he walked with a limp
he'd have him a smoke,
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and he'd take him a sip
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son of a veteran of the first world war
Verse 2
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he entered the service in forty- one,
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the fighting was done
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wearing a silver star on his chest,
damn proud to say he was
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one of the best
Verse 3
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when you hear that distant bugle play
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another old soldier fades away
another old soldier fades
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Verse 4
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he took a bullet in the hip, outside in Nam.
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he was back in the field by fifty- one
said Douglass Macarthur,
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was a horses end
Verse 5
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his uncle Sam
Verse 6
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when they sent him in, to Vietnam
they brought him home in
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seventy- three
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on a hundred percent, disability
Verse 7
the stars,
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bugle play
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another old soldier fades away
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another old soldier fades away
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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he loved this country, with all of his might
right up until the day he died
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in a crowded ward at the local V.A.
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another old soldier fades away
Verse 9
twenty- one guns, the stars,
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when you hear that distant bugle play
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another old soldier fades away
Outro 1
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