The War Lyrics - Lucero

I got drafted at 19 

Me and a bunch of boys from home 

January '43, drove out to Pine Bluff and signed on 

Went to basic south of Birmingham 

Put me on west coast bound train 

Spent three days out in San Diego 

And they shipped me back east again 

Left a port out of New York 

Slept for months in British rain 

Tore it up down in London town 

And they shipped me back out again 

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The preacher said "Boys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in Paradise" 

One boy spoke up, said "preacher come on, eat your supper with us 

Never talk about those first days 

Lots of friends left behind 

But I made it all the way across France 

And I fought at the Maginot line 

Road a tank into Belgium 

Like them better than the French 

Like my daddy, thirty years before 

I did my time in a trench 

Lots of days there's no water 

But the liquor kept me warm 

The cellars were stocked to the ceiling with booze 

So I carried a bottle with my gun 

The preacher said "Boys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in Paradise" 

One boy spoke up, said "preacher come on, eat your supper with us" 

Three times I made sergeant 

I'm not that kind of man 

And pretty much just as quick as I could 

I get busted back to private again 

Cause taken' orders never suited me 

Giving them out was much worse 

I could not stand to get my friends killed 

So I took care of myself first 

Now I know that don't sound right 

Don't think too bad of me 

Now it keeps me up nights 

What I could have done differently 

The preacher said "Boys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in Paradise." 

One boy spoke up, said "preacher come on, eat your supper with us" 

I'd be no guest at the table of the Lord 

His food was not to be mine 

'Cause I cursed His name every chance that I could 

And I recon that's why I'm still alive