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Private Wilson White
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Marty Robbins
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Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight
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Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White
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On a battlefield one day in a land so far away
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Mid the rattle of machine guns in the dawn's first golden light
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Twenty men lay close to death, nineteen of them held their breath
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While one volunteered to save them, volunteered to give his life
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Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight
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Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White
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Nineteen lives he meant to save, not one backward glance he gave
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As he yelled, for God and country, through an open field he ran
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But the enemy had seen and they understood his scheme
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And the fire from their machine guns knocked the rifle from his hands
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Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight
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Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White
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Seven bullets found their mark, seven bullets near the heart
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And the force of seven bullets knocked the soldier to the ground
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But his promise he must keep, and he staggered to his feet
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Ran toward the four machine guns that pinned the soldiers down
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Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight
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Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White
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Bullets flyin' everywhere, smoke and gunfire filled the air
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Onward ran the wounded soldier to keep the vow he made
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Nearly dead, but deep within, was the strength to pull the pin
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As he yelled, I died for freedom, he threw the hand grenade
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Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight
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Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White
Lyrics~El Paso-Marty Robbins
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