George A. was at the movies in December '41
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They announced it in the lobby what had just gone on
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He drove up from Birmingham back to the family's farm
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Thought he'd get him a deferment there's was much work to be done
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He was a family man, even in those days
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But Uncle Sam decided he was needed anyway
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In the South Pacific over half a world away
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He believed in God and Country, things was just that way
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Just that way....
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When I was just a kid I spent every weekend
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On the farm that he grew up on so I guess so did I
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And we'd stay up watching movies on the black and white TV
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We watched "The Sands of Iwo Jima" starring John Wayne
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Every year in June George A. goes to a reunion
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Of the men that he served with and their wives and kids and grandkids
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My Great Uncle used to take me and I'd watch them recollect
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About some things I couldn't comprehend
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And I thought about that movie, asked if it was that way
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He just shook his head and smiled at me in such a loving way
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As he thought about some friends he will never see again
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He said "I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima"
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Most of those men are gone now but he goes still every year
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And George A's still doing fine, especially for his years
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He's still living on that homestead in the house that he was born in
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And I sure wish I could go see him today
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He never drove a new car though he could easily afford it
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He'd just buy one for the family and take whatever no one wanted
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He said a shiny car didn't mean much after all the things he'd seen
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George A. never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima
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The Sands Of Iwo Jima
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