I ,I don't know...I never got to meet him. His name is Charles.
They called him Charlie.
And when... when Charlie, who was my dad's older brother,
and when Charlie was in high school,
he had really big plans.
He was gonna go on, maybe a doctor,
held all these grand grand plans, you know, really smart guy.
And he heard JFK, he heard his president,
he gave beautiful speech,
and he was so moved by the words of this leader
that he changed the whole future put it on the whole...
And he said, ”I'm gonna serve my country. I'm gonna volunteer to go to war.”
I never got to, I never got to meet my uncle because of that choice,
you know, because of that choice.
But I admire for him. When I think of my uncle Charlie.
I think it's the idea that...it's the words about our leader they really do matter.
It matters to my uncle back then.
And it matters right now.
So this one is for my uncle Charlie.
This is about him, this is called “Charlie Boy”.
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One, two, three, four...
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Charlie boy, don't go to war
First born in forty four
Kennedy made him believe
that we could do much more
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
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Lillian, don't hang your head,
love should make you feel good
In uniform you raised a man,
who volunteered to stand
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
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Play the bugle, play the taps
Make your mothers proud
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
Fire that volley loud .
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News was bad on Upland Ave
Metuchen mourn our loss
Sons rebelled, while fathers yelled
And mothers clutched the cross
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh ,oh oh
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Play the bugle, play the taps
Make your fathers proud
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
Fire that volley loud, -ley loud...