The Grave

[00:01.570]	The grave that they dug him had flowers
[00:07.8]	Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[00:12.570]	And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[00:18.70]	He's gone.
[00:30.390]	When the wars of our nation did beckon,
[00:34.948]	A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
[00:39.509]	Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
[00:43.858]	He's gone,
[00:46.838]	But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.
[00:56.588]	And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
[01:04.199]	Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
[01:11.39]	And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
[01:17.380]	As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.
[01:25.939]	But the silence of night was shattered by fire
[01:31.859]	As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
[01:38.399]	And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
[01:44.130]	In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.
[01:52.100]	He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
[01:58.798]	They can't let me die! The can't let me die here!
[02:02.179]	I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
[02:07.919]	I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave!
[02:14.480]	The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave.
[02:50.980]	The grave that they dug him had flowers
[02:56.490]	Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[03:01.890]	And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[03:09.830]	He's gone.

[00:01.570]	The grave that they dug him had flowers
[00:07.8]	Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[00:12.570]	And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[00:18.70]	He' s gone.
[00:30.390]	When the wars of our nation did beckon,
[00:34.948]	A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
[00:39.509]	Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
[00:43.858]	He' s gone,
[00:46.838]	But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we' ve done.
[00:56.588]	And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
[01:04.199]	Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
[01:11.39]	And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
[01:17.380]	As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.
[01:25.939]	But the silence of night was shattered by fire
[01:31.859]	As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
[01:38.399]	And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
[01:44.130]	In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.
[01:52.100]	He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
[01:58.798]	They can' t let me die! The can' t let me die here!
[02:02.179]	I' ll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
[02:07.919]	I' ll cover myself! I know I' m not brave!
[02:14.480]	The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave.
[02:50.980]	The grave that they dug him had flowers
[02:56.490]	Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
[03:01.890]	And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
[03:09.830]	He' s gone.