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Thread #64342   Message #1053188
Posted By: mg
13-Nov-03 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: Request respectful Veterans Day Thread
Subject: RE: Request respectful Veterans Day Thread
Great song Beetle, especially the line about the ramp.

I have a song that I probably have never sung...although maybe I posted it...it is for the crew that loaded up the helicopter for the last trip home...

Tune is Nevada Jane by Utah Phillips but he says it is really Gentle Annie although I don't hear the similarity..

It is for the 101st and anyone in the Ashau Valley...

I have walked in the places where the angels fear to tread
Carried out the wounded carried out the dead
And a little voice inside me says why not you instead
In the valley of the shadow of death

I have ______ in places with no name
Sent men back to freedom who will never be the same
And each of us and all of us and no one is to blame
In the valley of the shadow of death

There is not a single woman who will wait for me a year
In the land of hope and promise in the land of ice cold beer
Not a one to know my secrets not a one to know my fear
In the valley of the shadow of death

Wrap him in his poncho strap him with his lace
They got him in the bootie they got him in the face
What the hell it don't mean nothing someone else will take his place
In the valley of the shadow of death

mg