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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Captain Collier came home, he's been fighting the war
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And I guess he thought he'd be hailed as a hero and more
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And he walked down the streets of the old home town
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And he saw how it is around here now
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Now Captain Collier had to call
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far too many girls for a date that night
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All the girls had gone out
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with their long haired boys. Captain Collier, he cried
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"What the hell have I been fighting for?"
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Oh, Captain it's for you
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We wanna bring you home
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We wanna hold you in our arms
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Come back and keep us warm.
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P.F.C. Mannie Stein,
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Had been drafted and gone
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He'd been told that only cowards say no.
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He came home and called some old friends,
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They'd resisted the draft
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And they both were in prison
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And their wives and their kids
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Were all skinny and having a bad time
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And P.F.C Stein
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He remembered the men
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Called political prisoners you know where and when.
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And he learned that the lines are tapped all the time now
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And he's wondering if maybe his courage is needed at home now
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Yes soldier we're afraid
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We're not just bein' fools
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We're gassed and beaten here at home
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We've got to change the rules
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Corp'ral Thomas McCann
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Is a three year marine.
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Someone told him he'd better join up,
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It would would make him a man.
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He came home and to the park he went
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And he sat down on a bench
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And a dungaree girl told him he'd been a man all along
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And he looked at the sign that she carried in her hand.
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It said "Fuck the war and bring our brothers home"
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And corp'ral McCann he looks into her eyes
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And I believe that he's begun to understand
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Oh soldier, It's for you
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We formed our little bands
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The politicians and the magazines
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They just don't understand.
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Yes, soldier it's for you
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We're riskin' all we have
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We're nailed and jailed the same as you
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Our lives are up for grabs
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Yes soldier it's for you
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We want to bring you home
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We wanna hold you in our arms
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Come back and keep us warm.
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Her bring our brother home, (repeat)
Buffy Sainte Marie - No No Keshagesh
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