Stories of Valor - Single

“Stories of Valor” (3:36)
Words and music by Roger Cline (Walnut Run Music, ASCAP) ©2022
All lyrics clean

I put my hand on the wall, just under your name
I carry a picture, it’s just not the same
Cut so clean with precision, like you would have done
If you wielded a chisel instead of the gun

Heard the pleas of your country, answered the call
Put your plans in suspension for the great and the small
I never truly did thank you. I hope you could tell
When I looked on in wonder, you walked straight into hell

Stories of valor have been told all around
There are many brave soldiers in this hallowed ground
But only you are my brother, you were older than me
I stand in your shadow in the land of the free

The richest of men and the poorest can see
The model to live by, given to me
A lifetime to remember how you gave it all
For an ungrateful nation and your name on a wall

Stories of valor have been told all around
There are many brave soldiers in this hallowed ground
But only you are my brother, you were older than me
I stand in your shadow in the land of the free

I stand in your shadow in the land of the free