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Thread #69949   Message #1499849
Posted By: Jim Dixon
03-Jun-05 - 10:10 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes (McKuen)
Subject: Lyr Add: SOLDIERS WHO WANT TO BE HEROES (R McKuen)
I don't have the chords, but here are the lyrics:

From http://www.mckuen.com/flights/230703.htm

SOLDIERS WHO WANT TO BE HEROES
Words & Music by Rod McKuen
© 1958, 1960 by Rod McKuen & Stanyan Music-ASCAP.

Come and take my eldest son.
Show him how to shoot a gun.
Wipe his eyes if he starts to cry
When the bullets fly.
Give him a rifle. Take his hoe.
Show him a field where he can go
To lay his body down and die
Without asking why.

CHORUS: Soldiers who want to be heroes
Number practically zero,
But there are millions
Who want to be civilians.
Soldiers who want to be heroes
Number practically zero,
But there are millions
Who want to be civilians.

Sticks and stones can break your bones.
Even names can hurt you,
But the thing that hurts the most
Is when a man deserts you.
Don't you think its time to weed
The leaders that no longer lead
From the people of the land
Who'd like to see their sons again? CHORUS

God, if men could only see
The lessons taught by history,
That all the singers of this song
Cannot right a single wrong!
Let all men of good will
Stay in the fields they have to till,
Feed the mouths they have to fill,
And cast away their arms. CHORUS