The War-Lucero

[ti:The War] [ar:Lucero] [al:Lucero Live At Cat's Cradle 09/24/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The War - Lucero [00:27.36]I got drafted at 19 [00:29.27] [00:32.75]Me and a bunch of boys from home [00:35.35] [00:38.19]January 43 drove out to Pine Bluff and signed on [00:46.97] [00:49.27]Went to basic south of Birmingham [00:51.70] [00:54.71]Put me on west coast bound train [00:57.33] [01:00.04]Spent three days out in San Diego [01:03.82] [01:05.23]And they shipped me back east again [01:08.09] [01:27.10]Left a port out of New York [01:29.68] [01:32.51]Slept for months in British rain [01:34.66] [01:38.01]Tore it up down in London town [01:41.71] [01:43.05]And they shipped me back out again [01:45.27] [01:47.78]And the preacher said [01:49.12] [01:49.82]Boys he who is killed tonight [01:51.96] [01:54.14]Will dine with the lord in paradise [01:56.83] [01:59.11]One boy spoke up and said [02:02.37]Preacher come on eat your supper with us [02:07.97] [02:11.20]Never talk about those first days [02:13.75] [02:16.43]Lots of friends left behind [02:18.41] [02:21.79]But I made it all the way across France [02:25.14] [02:26.18]And I fought at the Maginot line [02:28.97] [02:32.54]Road a tank into Belgium [02:34.70] [02:37.94]Like them better than the French [02:40.22] [02:43.25]Like my daddy thirty years before [02:47.02] [02:47.79]I did my time in a trench [02:51.19] [02:54.02]Lots of days there's no water [02:56.47] [02:59.84]But the liquor kept me warm [03:01.98] [03:04.73]The cellars were stocked to the ceiling with booze [03:09.11] [03:09.76]So I carried a bottle with my gun [03:13.03] [03:14.89]And the preacher said [03:16.98]Boys he who is killed tonight [03:19.44] [03:21.18]Will dine with the lord in paradise [03:23.78] [03:26.48]One boy spoke up said [03:29.42]Preacher come on eat your supper with us [03:35.04] [03:38.42]Three times I made sergeant [03:40.47] [03:43.58]I'm not that kind of man [03:45.63] [03:48.77]And pretty much just as quick as I could [03:52.44] [03:53.04]I get busted back to private again [03:56.35] [03:59.31]Cause taken orders never suited me [04:02.42] [04:04.79]Giving them out was much worse [04:07.96] [04:10.11]I could not stand to get my friends killed [04:14.60]So I took care of myself first [04:18.33] [04:21.43]Now I know that don't sound right [04:24.19] [04:26.43]Don't think too bad of me [04:29.21] [04:32.14]Now it keeps me up nights [04:35.00] [04:36.81]What I could have done differently [04:39.44] [04:41.72]And the preacher said [04:43.69]Boys he who is killed tonight [04:46.12] [04:48.16]Will dine with the lord in paradise [04:50.54] [04:52.99]One boy spoke up said [04:55.60] [04:56.22]Preacher come on eat your supper with us [05:01.87] [05:03.97]I'd be no guest at the table of the lord [05:08.50] [05:09.98]His food was not to be mine [05:12.16] [05:14.62]Cause I cursed his name every chance that I could [05:19.02] [05:19.75]And I recon that's why I'm still alive