Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
it and softly sing Ave Maria
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And the whole world cries
And my mind drifts back
Verse 2
I went into the service
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And I got shipped off to sunny Honolulu
And I trained and played golf every
day in sunny Honolulu
in- law from
The Bronx was in Patton's
Verse 3
Up and I didn't know where
And I set up communication lines for
the soldiers there on Iwo Jima
Verse 4
and I walked into a dark cave
this story to my
Children, and my grandchildren,
And I poked him, and he was dead,
and I looked at him
Verse 5
Quonset hut, and when no one was around
used to smoke
Verse 6
I married my soldier friend
from the Bronx's sister
I grew up on Staten Island
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And every week,
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we had milk and beer delivered to our front door
We had five children,
one right after the other
we would go back home to Staten Island
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Verse 7
And our oldest daughter had a baby
when she was just 18
And she died when she was 27, and
So my wife and I,
we adopted this girl and we raised her
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A quiet little girl in a world of old people
Verse 8
Catholic Church and we played
Grade, but we dyed it back
Husband now,
Verse 9
He leaves his daughters at the lake
with us
And I sing soldier songs to them
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Interlude 1
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Verse 10
And ate peanuts on the porch
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joy and sadness
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Outro 1
End
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ChordsC F G
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