Lucero (Rock) - The Blue And The Gray lyrics

rate me

the family's been here for

the last hundred years

and it's all that he's ever known

life in the cotton fields

swamps and the rolling hills

always called Arkansas home

but when the war came

like his father before

he joined the army

and went to the war

leaving the rolling hills

swamps and the cotton fields

bound for a Normandy shore

the patch that he wore on

his uniform

was both blue and grey

the colors of men who died

fighting another fight

and more would die today

at Omaha beach against Germany

a young country boy

struggled out of the sea

up on the sand where

many a man

would never know victory

fought the entire time

up on the front line

it was lonely, bloody and cold

the only relief he'd find

might be some old French wine

the water was all dirty and froze

but he was luckier than some

a better soldier than most

he came back from Europe

but never got home

now he's back on the farm

but not out of harm

he drank so the pain wouldn't show

well he left behind

my brothers and I

we never really knew him at all

I barely remember him

smoking with a grin

but looking mean; standing tall

well I can only hope

that he wouldn't be ashamed

of the man I become

and the life that I made

and he did the hardest part

and lived life with all his heart

and I hope I don't let him down