Lyr Add: 50,000 Names (Jamie O'Hara)

14 Jan 00 - 01:35 AM (#162611)
Subject: 50,000 Names
From:

For the record:
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50,000 NAMES
(Words and music by Jamie O'Hara)

There's Teddy Bears and High School rings
And old photographs that Mama's bring
And Daddies with their young boys playing ball
There's combat boots - he used to wear
When he was sent over there
And there's 50,000 Names carved in the Wall.

There's cigarettes and cans of beer
And notes that say: "I miss you, dear."
And children who don't say anything at all
There's Purple Hearts and packs of gum
Fatherless daughters and fatherless sons
And there's 50,000 Names carved in the Wall.

They come from all across this land
In pick-up trucks and mini-vans
Searchin' for a boy from long a go
They scan the Wall and find his name
Teardrops fall like pouring rain
And silently they leave their gift and go.

There's Stars of David and Rosary Beads
And Crucifixion Figurines
And flowers of all colors, large and small
There's a Boy Scout Badge and a Merit Pin
Little American flags wavin' in the wind
And there's 50,000 Names carved in the Wall.

There's 50,000 Names carved in the Wall.

Copyright Jamie O'Hara
@war @Vietnam @death
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GG
oct97

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15 Jan 00 - 12:31 AM (#163201)
Subject: RE: 50,000 Names
From: bseed(charleskratz)

Is that you, Greg? You coulda put your name on this one: a good post. Each of the names, of course, represents a person with a whole lot of reasons to keep on living--as would each of the million names wall representing the dead on the other side...

--seed

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15 Jan 00 - 12:58 AM (#163224)
Subject: RE: 50,000 Names
From: Sorcha

Yes, my cousin is there; my first "true love", what about the "other side" of the Wall...........how many did they lose, those that loved them????No this is not Jane Fonda

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23 Aug 06 - 01:38 AM (#1816740)
Subject: RE: 50,000 Names
From: GUEST,Bubba

One of the most stirring songs I have ever heard. Robin and Linda Williams did an unbeivable job with it on A Prairie Home Companion a while back.

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23 Aug 06 - 10:51 AM (#1817015)
Subject: RE: 50,000 Names
From: Gene

http://www.themovingwall.org/

GG

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23 May 21 - 10:10 AM (#4107187)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 50,000 Names (Jamie O'Hara)
From: GUEST,#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_O%27Hara_(singer)

Info about the writer at that link.

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