[Verse 1]
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My name is Lieutenant Colonel William Todd.
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I flew the 101st Airborne in '42.
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You may think that you've met veterans like me before,
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but you don't have a clue.
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[Verse 2]
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I flew Korea in the war you probably forgot.
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I gave 40 years of damn near all I got.
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I watched some of my closest friends die on foreign land.
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I still hear their screams at night.
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[Chorus]
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So don't you wipe away my tears.
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I've earned them through all the years.
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Just let a€?em roll down like a stream upon a hill.
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Let my tears be still.
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[Verse 3]
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I met Jean Ann in a photograph in '44.
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I swore she'd be the girl to take my last name.
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52 years passed til the Lord took her away,
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but I still see Jean everyday.
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[Verse 4]
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At the end of my rope as I lay here in this bed.
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Thoughts and prayers of my family circle through my head.
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I pray when the Lord opens up the pearly gates wide
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that I'll see my Jean standing there in the light.
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Let My Tears Be Still
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| Josh Abbott Band |
