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DEAR LITTLE SOLDIER

GENE STRASSER ?COUNTRY PARTY MUSIC-BMI MARTHA STRASSER?IVY POISON MUSIC

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FROM A FOX HOLE IN ENEMY TERRITORY
A SOLDIER WRITES TO HIS LITTLE ONE BACK HOME

DEAR LITTLE SOLDIER, MY LITTLE MAN,
YOU WERE ASLEEP THAT NIGHT WHEN I CAME IN
I TRIED TO WAKE YOU TO TELL YOU GOODBYE
WHAT COURAGE YOU GAVE ME AS I HELD YOU TIGHT
IT HAPPENED SO SUDDEN, ORDERS TO LEAVE
WE?RE PULLING OUT THIS MORNING AT THREE
I WENT HOME TO SEE MOMMY AND TELL YOU GOODBYE
MAYBE IT?S BETTER YOU WERE SLEEPING,
DIDN?T SEE DADDY CRY

I PICKED YOU UP A DOZEN TIMES AND HELD YOU SO TIGHT IN

THESE ARMS OF MINE?YOUR BIRTHDAY IS JUST ONE WEEK AWAY-I BOUGHT

YOU THAT HELMET, LIKE DADDIES, I WANT YOU TO BE BRAVE?I WHISPERED

I NEED YOU TO BE MY LITTLE MAN, AND I?LL WRITE EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY

IF I CAN?TAKE CARE OF MOMMY WHILE I AM AWAY?IT?S FUNNY BUT I

WORRY ABOUT YOU OVER THERE IN THE U.S.A. I PICKED UP ONE OF YOUR

TOYS AS I WALKED OUT THE DOOR, IT WAS OUR FAVORITE, YOUR MAGIC

SWORD. IT?S IN THIS FOX HOLE WITH ME AND I?M HOLDING IT CLOSE,

AND NOTHING CAN HARM ME, NOT EVEN A GHOST.

IT WON?T BE LONG TIL? WE?LL ALL BE HOME, SO YOU TAKE CARE OF MOMMIE

WHILE I AM GONE. AND SOMETIMES IF YOU SEE A TEAR IN HER EYE, JUST

HOLD HER FOR DADDY AND TELL HER DON?T CRY.

REMEMBER THE LITTLE PRAYER WE USE TO SAY AT BEDTIME EACH NIGHT,

YOU BY MY LEFT KNEE AND MOM BY MY RIGHT.

I?LL CLOSE MY EYES AS I SAY MY PRAYER?YOU TAKE MOMMIES HAND AND

PRETEND THAT I?M THERE-------------

NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP, I PRAY DEAR LORD MY SOUL TO KEEP

IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE ?I PRAY DEAR LORD-- MY SOUL TO TAKE

GOD BLESS MOMMIE?GOD BLESS DADDY AND GOD BLESS YOU