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To Annabel in Memphis it was just another day |
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But her sweetheart and his buddies died ten thousand miles away |
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A captain sadly walked the muddy bloody battlefield |
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The smoke had cleared away and it was terrible and still |
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In his pocket was a roster of the falling fighting men |
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And the captain had his orders so the roll call begin |
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Atkins Baker Carter Calahan Clement Jones Johnson Moran |
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McCoy Perkins Rivers and Revere Stepherd Thomas Wilson what can of you here |
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The roll call was completed but no sign of life was there |
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Not one man had answered not one accounted for |
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He turned around and he walked away and looked up to the sky |
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When he heard his own voice echo and the answer from on high |
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Atkins(here) Baker(here) Carter(here) Calahan(here) |
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Clement(here) Jones(here) Johnson(here) Moran(here) |
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McCoy(here) Perkins(here) Rivers(here) and Revere(here) |
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Stepherd(here) Thomas(here) Wilson(yes sir we're all here) |
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We are present sir and all accounted for |