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Where have all the John's gone ? they all been murdered by the ones Who have the right to bear arms It was 1963 and I was walking home from school going home for lunch While in Texas something was going to happen to us that would change the nation Someone took a rifle in assassinated John the man was our President John F Kennedy He was shot down gun down in a motorcade died by a gun You know the Second Amendment says you should have the right to Died by a gun You know Where have all the John's gone they all been murdered by the ones Who have the right to bear arms It was the 1980s and as John Lennon was in his Courtyard Just beginning to enter his apartment He was gunned down by an assailant A long occupants murdered and killed He was shot down gun down Died by the gum You know the Second Amendment says you have the right to Die by the gun you know Where have all the John's gone They all been murdered by the one You have the right to bear arms This glass John was my best friend 9 months older than me I called him brother Went to the same grade school used to walk me to kindergarten Alas we went to the same Junior High and High School We were even an ROTC together taught me many things even introduced me to Pizza We shared many many hobbies reading and drawing our own comics Creativity was there creativity we shared And all the years that I've known him we only had one falling out only one Sad matter of the fact is I never told him I loved him he was to me as an older brother He was a fan of The Beatles even I began to like them He married his high school sweetheart had boy child a boy He will later join the Marine Corps and man it look good in the uniform He knew karate and he was kindhearted He would help anyone anywhere at anytime a true friend But in the year of 1978 coming back to vacation to Omaha Nebraska In route traveling through the desert of Arizona He stopped to help a distressed Traveler so he thought He never made it here cause he to was ambushed gun down shot He was murdered himself his wife his child his niece all shot Died in the hot desert His niece bled to death all murdered by the Tyson family left dead in the desert The nine month old son and the mom all shot dead All of them died by the gun You know Where have all the John's gone They all been murdered by the one Who have the rights to bear arms I pray none of us died by a gun Dedicated to President John F Kennedy Singer-songwriter John Lennon John Francis Lyons Murdered by the Tyson family Father and Son in Arizona in 1978 my best friend and my brother Written by James Edward Lee Sr (c)1978
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