Zane Campbell - Bringin The Boys Home

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We grew up next to a funeral parlor
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Death was always close by
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When my brother Lon was a boy he'd hang out over there
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all the time

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So before he was grown he'd seen more death then most people ever will see

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But he was the only boy the Undertaker could get to help and
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out and hell that was no paper route that's a scary place to be

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So the undertakers apprentice grew up and turned 20 and he
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went off to to new york city to be come a mortician now they all
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thought he was crazy to be what he wanted to be

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When the Vietnam war came along he got drafted the only
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reason he didn't go over there to die was his chosen profession
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when they found out he was a mortician, they said we got a
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special job for you in mind.

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Well they offered him a job of bringing the bodies home
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to their famil ies and to say on behalf of
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US Army we are so sorry

[Chorus]
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He Was Bringing the boys home
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Nobody wanted to do it
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Bringing them boys home
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to stayy yyyyy

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Through two dozen of our states of our country to the
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rich and the poor, black and white he would bring.
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There young men home just him and the body for one final ceremon y.

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But the strangest assignment home was when he brought this
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one boy home to Missouri and of course he never saw but
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he saw a picture there of him on the mantle there and he
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froze and ice ran through his veins. Cause the picture of
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their dead boy there on the mantle looked exactly like my brother
Lon and the family asked him if he could stay on an extra day and if the 
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family ever asked the army's orders were you were to stay on.

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It's like he was replacing for that one extra day the one that could
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never be re placed. Just for a little while they
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wanted to look at his face.

[Chorus]
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Bringing the boys home
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Nobody wanted to do it
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Bringing them boys home
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to stayy yyyyy