[00:00.37]The grave that they dug him had flowers
[00:05.81]Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[00:11.37]And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[00:16.87]He's gone.
[00:29.19]When the wars of our nation did beckon,
[00:33.75]A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
[00:38.31]Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
[00:42.66]He's gone,
[00:45.64]But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.
[00:55.39]And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
[01:03.00]Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
[01:09.84]And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
[01:16.18]As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.
[01:24.74]But the silence of night was shattered by fire
[01:30.66]As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
[01:37.20]And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
[01:42.93]In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.
[01:50.09]He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
[01:57.06]They can't let me die! The can't let me die here!
[02:00.98]I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
[02:06.72]I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave!
[02:13.28]The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave.
[02:49.78]The grave that they dug him had flowers
[02:55.29]Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[03:00.69]And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[03:08.63]He's gone.