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Well I used to hang out down at the VFW hall

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And stare at the photographs up on the wall

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Of the neighborhood boys that died in the wars we've been through

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And the hand lettered sign that said remember Jimmy McGrew


                                 D7
Well Jimmy went to Nam back in 1965

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But there's a lot of men here that think Jimmy McGrew's still alive

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Though they carved his name on a stone in Washington DC

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His brother said that stone don't prove a thing to me


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It's veteran's day and the skies are gray

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Leave the uniforms home cause there ain't gonna be a parade

          G                                                C
But we'll fill up a glass for the ones that didn't make it through

            G                     D7              G
And leave a light in the window tonight for Jimmy McGrew


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There's a hot rain falling on the back streets of Saigon

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There's an old soldier stumbling down the alley with his mama-san

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Lord his eyes are cloudy and his arms are black and blue

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He's just hanging by a thread and he looks like Jimmy McGrew


               C                     G
It's veteran's day and the skies are gray

                                                       D7
Leave the uniforms home cause there ain't gonna be a parade

          G                                                C
But we'll fill up a glass for the ones that didn't make it through

            G                     D7              G
And leave a light in the window tonight for Jimmy McGrew



And keep it burning bright there may still be
 

A lot of Jimmy McGrews over there

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But we'll fill up a glass for the ones that didn't make it through

            G                     D7              G
And leave a light in the window tonight for Jimmy McGrew