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| Title: |
Leonard Wood |
| Artist: |
David Elon Preston
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| This Version: |
2005-11-11 00:00:00 |
1st Version: |
2005-11-11 00:00:00 |
| Copyright: |
2005 David Elon Preston |
| URL: |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7245228/site/newsweek/ |
| Description: |
Definitely a sad story here and you honour the tragedy in the song. Your vocals are haunting here... perfectly suited for the topic. Lyrics are simple and yet impactful. Beautiful piece of music - you should be proud ~ FraDonaghy
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| Notes: |
Fort Leonard Wood is an Army Basic Training camp in Missouri (my son trained there a few years ago). This song is about an incident that occured in Tall Afar (in Iraq near Syria)earlier this year. A car filled with a family returning home was mistaken for insurgents and fired upon by US soldiers. The parents were killed, leaving the children orphans. Newsweek did a haunting story on it last April and the idea of writing a song about it has been in my head ever since.
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| Lyrics: |
It’s getting pretty late
I wonder what time it is in Omaha
Must be something I ate
Disagrees with me
Been up all night long
Blood turned black on my combat boots
Ain’t done nothing wrong
But I still feel sick inside
They told me back at Leonard Wood
That freedom don’t come free
All that stands between us and them
Is me
I vowed to keep America
Far from evil’s will
To keep my people safe
I kill
How could we possibly know
The car was just a family
We tried to make them halt
But they did not understand
I held a little girl
Her mother’s blood on my combat boots
I never saw her tears
Back in Leonard Wood
Back in Leonard Wood
Copyright 2005 David Elon Preston
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