Intro
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If general Mc Callister gave up the wars
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and all of the people went back to their chores
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then all the kings horses and all the kings men could go home---
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If all of the people were on the same side
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there?d be no need to run,there?d be no need to hide
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and all of us here in our grey tattered coats could go home
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If you?d just listen sir once again
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to the reasons of one of your men
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it could make all these things come to pass
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and I could lay on Arkansas grass
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Home Home go it alone to the sound of the military brass
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Home home lover?s alone, layin? on Arkansas grass,
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So bravely we marched both the grey and the red
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to lick ?em first time like the good general said
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with nary a thought that so very few would go home
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If weren?t so wrong for a soldier like me
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to throw down his gun and run to be free
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and all of us here with the fear in our ours could go home
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If you?d just listen sir once again
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to the reasons of one of your men
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it could make all these things come to pass
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and I could lay on Arkansas grass
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Home Home go it alone to the sound of the military brass
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Home home lover?s alone, layin? on Arkansas grass,
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layin? on Arkansas grass (x7)
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Home home lover?s alone, layin? on Arkansas grass