Chilled To The Bone

from Sturdy Little Men by The Admiral's Boy

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Chilled to the Bone

1
We marched all day so clean and so strong,
My brothers and I we marched until dawn,
We marched and marched til we came to that place,
Where the dying man said that time was erased,
I wasn't alone as we marched up that hill,
One thousand men died to enforce one man's will.

Chorus,
Black crow, black crow flyin' bring me on home,
My heart is aching I can't leave it alone,
I wake every morning chilled to the bone.

2
Now Jack was my brother so clean and so strong,
It took only one bullet and I left him behind,
The wind blew the rain on that terrible day,
And I wished it was me that had been in the way.
Now what will I tell his mother and dad,
What did he die for was it worth it to them.

Chorus

3.
I try to remember as the years flow on by,
just what I stood for as that night turned to dawn,
as I saw Jack falling and the spray of the blood,
as I took cover beside him face down in the mud,
as the shells rained down all over the place,
The night was so fearful I puked in disgrace.

Chorus

4.
The horses are running so clean and so strong,
I sit on my porch and watch the leaves blow on by,
I think about Jack and that little white cross,
And the mud and the blood and the lives that were lost,
While my grandson plays with blocks on the floor,
And I'm far away reliving that day.

Chorus

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from Sturdy Little Men, released October 31, 2013

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