Veterans' Day

In honor of Veterans' Day, here are the lyrics to the great song of the same name by Tom Russell, as well as a You Tube clip of Russell playing the song back in 1991. Not a great video quality but an amazing song.

verse 1
                                         
Well I used to hang out down at the local VFW hall
                                  
And stare at the photographs up on the wall
                                                       
Of the neighborhood boys that died back in World War II
                                                    
And the hand lettered sign that said remember our Jimmy McGrew


verse 2
                            
Well Jimmy went away back in 1965
                                                           
But there's a lot of men here that think Jimmy McGrew's still alive
                                                
Though they carved his name on a stone in Washington DC
                                                   
His brother said that stone don't prove a damn thing to me



CHORUS:

                                 
It's veteran's day and the skies are gray
                                                    
Leave the uniforms home cause there ain't gonna be a parade
                                                      
But we'll fill up a glass for the ones that didn't make it through
                                           
And leave a light in the window tonight for Jimmy McGrew


verse 3

There's a hot rain fallin' on the back streets of Saigon

There's an old soldier stumblin' down the alley with his mama-san

Lord his eyes are cloudy and his arms are black and blue

He's just hangin' by a thread and he looks like Jimmy McGrew


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