Veteran (Featured Track- Veterans Day, Nov. 10)

Songwriter - Tim Hildebrandt
Publisher - Joanne L Martin Music BMI

I signed up I was twenty-one
A patriotic chore gonna get the job done
Stand and serve my country like i should
They sent me off to a foreign land
To fight a dirty little war i didn’t understand
And you couldn’t tell the bad guys from the good

I’m a veteran,I did my part
I’m a veteran, got a scar upon my heart
I’m a lucky one, no demons in the night
I’m a veteran, a veteran for life

I did my year yeah I did my time
They turned me loose in sixty-nine
A dear john and a G.I. bill was my welcome home
They denied what we’d been through
But somewhere back in eighty-two
They carved fifty-eight thousand names upon a stone

How many times does it take
To learn from our mistakes

I met the boys for one last time
That was the summer of two ‘o’ nine
We prayed the soldier’s prayer the twenty-third psalm
With our heads bowed down it occurred to me
What a waste of life and misery
The label in my hat says ‘made in Viet Nam’