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You Look Like a Soldier To Me

They drafted my body for South Vietnam, I said take a look, Can’t you see what I am? A gay and a Commie and I take LSD, They said “Son, you look like a soldier to me.” Although I protested they were being unfair, They volunteered me for a vacation out there, And then they sent me home on a hospital ship. Writing poems of protest about the whole trip. After I learned them upon my guitar, I wondered where all of the folk singers are? Are all of them out, is something else in? I went back home to start over again. I sold my guitar for a five dollar bill, And purchased some pleasure inside of a pill, That softened my head where it used to be hard, And bought me some bagpipes on my credit card. Too many songs, too many rhymes, Changing my instruments to keep with the times.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 1/26/2010 6:59:00 AM
Thank you Steve for your postings today. I enjoyed reading then though I did not comment on everyone of them. My hands give me problems some days so I can't comment on everything I read. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/25/2010 5:00:00 PM
I hear ya! Did You read my Let the Eagle Fly With the Dove? I went a week ago to a concert with 2 folk singers who are part of the current??? peace movement..who new there still was one? HUGS Light & Love
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