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Thread #79871 Message #1451843
Posted By: GUEST,Brian
04-Apr-05 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Take Me from the Battlefield
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Take me from the Battlefield
If you made every other verse into one, say:
Johnny landed in 'Nam in December with a pack in his hand, and a gun Holding up Johnson's letter as he stood under the burning suna He was assigned to the first cavalry of the Third Battalion, Vietnam And as 1968 rang in he weeped as he wrote to his ma' --------------
you would have a perfect come all ye format (in fact COME ALL YE TRAMPS AND HAWKERS would work well for this). You could put it to any number of traditional melodies.