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When I left my home and my family |
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my mother said to me |
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"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts |
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it's how many people you set free" |
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So I packed my bags |
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brushed my cap |
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Walked out into the world |
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seventeen years old |
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Never kissed a girl |
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Took the train to Voronezh |
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that was as far as it would go |
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Changed my sacks for a uniform |
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bit my lip against the snow |
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I prayed for mother Russia in the summer of '43 |
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And as we drove the Germans back |
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I really believed |
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That God was listening to me |
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We howled into Berlin |
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tore the smoking buildings down |
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Raised the red flag high |
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burnt the reichstag brown |
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I saw my first American |
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and he looked a lot like me |
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He had the same kinda farmer's face |
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said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee |
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Then the war was over |
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my discharge papers came |
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Me and twenty hundred others |
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went to Stettiner for the train |
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Kiev! said the commissar |
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from there your own way home |
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But I never got to Kiev |
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we never came by home |
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Train went north to the Taiga |
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we were stripped and marched in file |
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Up the great siberian road |
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for miles and miles and miles and miles |
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Dressed in stripes and tatters |
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in a gulag left to die |
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All because Comrade Stalin was scared that |
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we'd become too westernized! |
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Used to love my country |
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used to be so young |
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Used to believe that life was |
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the best song ever sung |
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I would have died for my country in 1945 |
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But now only one thing remains |
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The brute will to survive! |
