[01:25.887]When I left my home and my family
[01:29.385]my mother said to me
[01:32.642]"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
[01:36.637]it's how many people you set free"
[01:40.641]So I packed my bags
[01:42.633]brushed my cap
[01:44.637]Walked out into the world
[01:47.638]seventeen years old
[01:51.140]Never kissed a girl
[02:09.142]Took the train to Voronezh
[02:12.389]that was as far as it would go
[02:15.637]Changed my sacks for a uniform
[02:19.139]bit my lip against the snow
[02:22.641]I prayed for mother Russia in the summer of '43
[02:30.143]And as we drove the Germans back
[02:32.643]I really believed
[02:34.136]That God was listening to me
[02:52.138]We howled into Berlin
[02:54.639]tore the smoking buildings down
[02:57.636]Raised the red flag high
[03:01.641]burnt the reichstag brown
[03:05.137]I saw my first American
[03:08.390]and he looked a lot like me
[03:11.632]He had the same kinda farmer's face
[03:15.140]said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee
[03:48.133]Then the war was over
[03:50.882]my discharge papers came
[03:54.141]Me and twenty hundred others
[03:57.139]went to Stettiner for the train
[04:01.133]Kiev! said the commissar
[04:05.139]from there your own way home
[04:08.136]But I never got to Kiev
[04:11.893]we never came by home
[04:15.889]Train went north to the Taiga
[04:18.884]we were stripped and marched in file
[04:22.647]Up the great siberian road
[04:25.888]for miles and miles and miles and miles
[04:30.142]Dressed in stripes and tatters
[04:33.141]in a gulag left to die
[04:36.140]All because Comrade Stalin was scared that
[04:41.140]we'd become too westernized!
[05:41.389]Used to love my country
[05:44.389]used to be so young
[05:48.393]Used to believe that life was
[05:51.896]the best song ever sung
[05:55.387]I would have died for my country in 1945
[06:01.644]But now only one thing remains
[06:27.648]The brute will to survive!