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The Unknown Soldier

Nicholas Schmitt

Well I was lookin' for honor and I was lookin' for glory.
I was searching for the truth as any man should.
I think that I found some on a hill in Virginia
where the cherry blossoms blooming in the sweet spring air.
Hear the bugle blow in the distance o're the hallowed ground.
Hear the stallion clatter on the pavement as the sun rolls down.

You know they say he played the banjo on his mammy's knee
and he courted a girl from Alabama. Don't you know she sang off key.
You know he might have been from Boston and a fisherman's son,
or he could have come from Buffalo and just son of a gun.

And when the wind blows you can hear the sabres clash,
you can see the soldiers dieing in the blood.
And in the night you can hear the widows cry
as the generations' dreams died in the blood.

Well the man in the tomb, you know he speaks to me.
He says the struggle for freedom will never end.
He said that one man's soul laid before his God
is like the eye of the storm in times terrible past.

And he's the Unknown soldier, lies in a peacful grave,
not for the lives he took, but for the love he gave.

You know they say he played the banjo on his mammy's knee
and he courted a girl from Alabama. Don't you know she sang off key.
You know he might have been from Boston and a fisherman's son,
or he could have come from Buffalo and just son of a gun.

Just an Unknown Soldier, known but to God
He set his face to the future and He took it on.
Hear the bugle blow in the distance o're the hallowed ground
Hear the stallion clatter on the pavement as the sun goes down

He's the Unknown soldier.......