Bury Me Far From My Uniform

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I was fallen dead in battle
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Must've been Tuesday, I don't know the date
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I gave everything everyone asked for
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But I'll say where I'll be laid


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The many dead of my comrades
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All look the same in this place
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Won't you bury me far from my uniform
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So God might remember my face

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Do not bother with Congress
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With the rich or with the rest
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I fought their battles in this world
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But I'll not fight for them in the next


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Do not find me justice
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Just find me a grave
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And then bury me far from my uniform
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So God might remember my face

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My mother, my mother you'll cry for me
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You'll weep, with the next of our kin
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You must promise never to think of
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What is not, and what could have been


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I'll not return to your table
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So don't save me a place

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Just bury me far from my uniform
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From the iron cross medals I would've worn
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From the statues that sisters and widows mourn
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From the newspaper clippin's and microform
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From Geneva, The Hague and Nuremberg
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From the sex of this world that I'll no longer taste


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Won't you bury me far from my uniform
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So God might remember my face
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Oh God will remember my face
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Merciful God, please remember my face