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Tom Flannery
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I was baptized in the Antietam
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preacher said I was good to go
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said the Lord'd been here once
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and put on quite a show
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said we needed a good cleansing
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then he cracked open a beer
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said son do you realize
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just what happened here
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My parents were born and raised
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you can't choose where you're spit out
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daddy worked the railroads
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left mamma with all the doubt
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she said the house was haunted
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with dying union boys
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and she'd sit up until the dawn
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complaining about the noise
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Sharpsburg...Antietam
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or by any other name
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you can call it what you will
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it was a bad day just the same
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Daddy didn't know what to do
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so he'd take her by the hand
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and force her out into these fields
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to make her understand
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that the war is surely over
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you can look it up he said
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the living go on living
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and the dead they remain dead
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So I grew up in a bottle
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moved on to amphetimines
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figured I'd take my chances
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but got stuck in between
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daddy died in '90
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right before the first gulf war
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mamma said don't you dare boy
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but I went and joined the corps
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Sharpsburg...Antietam
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or by any other name
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you can call it what you will
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it was a bad day just the same
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I came home a little later
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missing pieces of my mind
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I'd sleep out in bloody lane
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when I needed to unwind
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started to hear the same things
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that mamma said she heard
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I'd seen the ghosts myself sir
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now their company I preferred
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It's a big ol' shitty world
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it's kill or be killed
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look around you mister
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guns lining these hills
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you wanna get out of here
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you gotta cut your way through
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too much water under that bridge
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too much that we got used to
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Sharpsburg...Antietam
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or by any other name
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you can call it what you will
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it was a bad day just the same
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