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1460 Elder Street
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Red Sovine
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I was waiting on a ship to Vietnam and me being the good time loving guy I am
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I was looking for some female company I met a girl alone and lonesome just like me
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We had coffee at a waterfront cafe she said her husband was a soldier far away
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And she talked about her long nights all alone
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And the way she's fought temptation since he's gone
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1460 Elder Street is where she took me
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And I never knew that love could be so sweet
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Then she promised me that when the war was over
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I'd have a home at 1460 Elder Street
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Two months later I was on patrol one day
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When a hand grenade fell not ten feet away
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I watched as one brave man gave all that he could give
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He fell across it gave his life that I might live
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I found a crumpled tear stained letter in his coat
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And I read the Dear John Letter his wife wrote
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He had nothing left for livin' for I guess
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I thought I die when I saw her return address
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1460 Elder Street still drives me crazy
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And sometimes at night we find it hard to sleep
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Could it be the ones who killed him
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Now are sharing our private hell at 1460 Elder Street
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