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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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We grew up next to a funeral parlor
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Death was always close by
G D G
When my brother Lon was a boy he'd hang out over there
C G
all the time
G D G C
So before he was grown he'd seen more death then most people ever will see
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But he was the only boy the Undertaker could get to help and
D G C G
out and hell that was no paper route that's a scary place to be
G D G
So the undertakers apprentice grew up and turned 20 and he
C G
went off to to new york city to be come a mortician now they all
D G C G
thought he was crazy to be what he wanted to be
G D G
When the Vietnam war came along he got drafted the only
C G
reason he didn't go over there to die was his chosen profession
D
when they found out he was a mortician, they said we got a
G C G
special job for you in mind.
G D G
Well they offered him a job of bringing the bodies home
C G
to their famil ies and to say on behalf of
D G C G
US Army we are so sorry
[Chorus]
Em D C
He Was Bringing the boys home
G D
Nobody wanted to do it
G C D
Bringing them boys home
G C G
to stayy yyyyy
G D
Through two dozen of our states of our country to the
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rich and the poor, black and white he would bring.
G D G C G
There young men home just him and the body for one final ceremon y.
G
But the strangest assignment home was when he brought this
D G
one boy home to Missouri and of course he never saw but
C
he saw a picture there of him on the mantle there and he
G C G
froze and ice ran through his veins. Cause the picture of
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their dead boy there on the mantle looked exactly like my brother
Lon and the family asked him if he could stay on an extra day and if the
G C G
family ever asked the army's orders were you were to stay on.
G D
It's like he was replacing for that one extra day the one that could
G C G
never be re placed. Just for a little while they
D G C G
wanted to look at his face.
[Chorus]
Em D C
Bringing the boys home
G D
Nobody wanted to do it
G C D
Bringing them boys home
G C G
to stayy yyyyy
We grew up next to a funeral parlor
G C
Death was always close by
G D G
When my brother Lon was a boy he'd hang out over there
C G
all the time
G D G C
So before he was grown he'd seen more death then most people ever will see
G
But he was the only boy the Undertaker could get to help and
D G C G
out and hell that was no paper route that's a scary place to be
G D G
So the undertakers apprentice grew up and turned 20 and he
C G
went off to to new york city to be come a mortician now they all
D G C G
thought he was crazy to be what he wanted to be
G D G
When the Vietnam war came along he got drafted the only
C G
reason he didn't go over there to die was his chosen profession
D
when they found out he was a mortician, they said we got a
G C G
special job for you in mind.
G D G
Well they offered him a job of bringing the bodies home
C G
to their famil ies and to say on behalf of
D G C G
US Army we are so sorry
[Chorus]
Em D C
He Was Bringing the boys home
G D
Nobody wanted to do it
G C D
Bringing them boys home
G C G
to stayy yyyyy
G D
Through two dozen of our states of our country to the
G C
rich and the poor, black and white he would bring.
G D G C G
There young men home just him and the body for one final ceremon y.
G
But the strangest assignment home was when he brought this
D G
one boy home to Missouri and of course he never saw but
C
he saw a picture there of him on the mantle there and he
G C G
froze and ice ran through his veins. Cause the picture of
D
their dead boy there on the mantle looked exactly like my brother
Lon and the family asked him if he could stay on an extra day and if the
G C G
family ever asked the army's orders were you were to stay on.
G D
It's like he was replacing for that one extra day the one that could
G C G
never be re placed. Just for a little while they
D G C G
wanted to look at his face.
[Chorus]
Em D C
Bringing the boys home
G D
Nobody wanted to do it
G C D
Bringing them boys home
G C G
to stayy yyyyy
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