Lucero
The Blue and the Grey
The family's been here forThe last hundred yearsAnd it's all that he's ever knownLife in the cotton fieldsSwamps and the rolling hillsAlways called Arkansas homeBut when the war cameLike his father beforeHe joined the armyAnd went to the warLeaving the rolling hillsSwamps and the cotton fieldsBound for a Normandy shoreThe patch that he wore onHis uniformWas both blue and greyThe colors of men who diedFighting another fightAnd more would die todayAt Omaha beach against GermanyA young country boyStruggled out of the seaUp on the sand where Letras de cancionesMany a manWould never know victoryFought the entire timeUp on the front lineIt was lonely, bloody and coldThe only relief he'd findMight be some old French wineThe water was all dirty and froze But he was luckier than someA better soldier than mostHe came back from EuropeBut never got homeNow he's back on the farmBut not out of harmHe drank so the pain wouldn't showWell he left behindMy brothers and IWe never really knew him at allI barely remember himSmoking with a grinBut looking mean; standing tallWell I can only hopeThat he wouldn't be ashamedOf the man I becomeAnd the life that I madeAnd he did the hardest partAnd lived life with all his heartAnd I hope I don't let him down
From Letras Mania