Til The Last Shot's Fired-Trace Adkins

[ti:Til The Last Shot's Fired] [ar:Trace Adkins] [al:The Definitive Greatest Hits: Til The Last Shot's Fired (Disc2)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Til The Last Shot's Fired - Trace Adkins [00:13.99]I was there in the winter of sixty four [00:16.59] [00:19.52]When we camped in the ice at Nashville's doors [00:23.13] [00:25.20]Three hundred miles our trail had lead [00:28.15] [00:31.13]We barely had time to bury our dead [00:34.45] [00:36.52]When the Yankees charged and the colors fell [00:39.46] [00:42.49]Overtone hill was a living hell [00:44.75] [00:47.80]When we called retreat it was almost dark [00:51.42] [00:53.70]I died with a grapeshot in my heart [00:57.01] [00:59.30]Say a prayer for peace [01:02.93] [01:05.36]For every fallen son [01:09.04] [01:12.18]Set my spirit free [01:16.02] [01:18.24]Let me lay down my gun [01:21.95] [01:24.71]Sweet mother Mary I'm so tired [01:28.47] [01:30.55]But I can't come home til the last shot's fired [01:33.95] [01:39.33]In June of nineteen and forty four [01:42.24] [01:45.27]I waited in the blood of Omaha's shores [01:48.59] [01:51.01]Twenty one and scared to death [01:53.53] [01:56.70]My heart pounding in my chest [01:59.71] [02:02.21]I almost made the first seawall [02:04.85] [02:07.87]When my friends turned and saw me fall [02:10.49] [02:13.12]I still smell the smoke I can taste the mud [02:16.07] [02:19.07]As I lay there dying from a loss of blood [02:21.91] [02:24.87]Say a prayer for peace [02:28.44] [02:31.07]For every fallen son [02:34.45] [02:37.64]Set my spirit free [02:41.41] [02:43.81]Let me lay down my gun [02:47.63] [02:50.17]Sweet mother Mary I'm so tired [02:54.09] [02:56.08]But I can't come home til the last shot's fired [02:59.87] [03:01.77]I'm in the fields of Vietnam [03:04.49] [03:05.00]The mountains of Afghanistan [03:08.17]And I'm still hoping waiting praying [03:10.90] [03:11.56]I did not die in vain [03:16.53]Say a prayer for peace [03:20.03] [03:22.70]For every fallen son [03:26.13] [03:29.30]Set our spirits free [03:33.25] [03:35.11]Let us lay down our guns [03:39.79] [03:41.87]Sweet mother Mary we're so tired [03:45.66] [03:47.72]But we can't come home til the last shot's fired [03:51.19] [03:55.27]Til the last shot's fired [03:58.35] [04:11.41]Say a prayer for peace for peace [04:16.65]For our daughters and our sons [04:22.74] [04:23.52]Set our spirits free set us free [04:29.25]Let us lay down our guns [04:34.46] [04:36.24]Sweet mother Mary we're so tired [04:40.10] [04:41.82]But we can't come home no we can't come home [04:47.98] [04:49.58]Til the last shot's fired