Dover Teclado

	  
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elijah was a seargant forty two years old 
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from mesa arizona elijah wont grow old 
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patrick was with c troop second armored cav 
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his buddies all remember how patrick loved to laugh 
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seth was from east brunswick just a newlywed  
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somewhere in new jersey seth's young widow bows her head 
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daniel was from boston shipped out from fort bragg 
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his mother got back daniel with a folded flag 

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oh big airplane bring em down easy out of the delaware sky 
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oh big airplane dover is waiting to welcome the heros you fly.....home 
 

Verse 
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william served in anbar combat engineer 
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first marine division william is not here 
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alan rebuilt bridges for batalion b 
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next to cause of death they wrote the letters i.e.d. 
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gussie was a scrub nurse hailing from fort bliss  
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gussie had a spirit this worlds gonna miss 
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jeramiah's son cries on his momma's knee 
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there was no armor plating on his dad's hmmv 

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oh big airplane bring em down easy out of the delaware sky 
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oh big airplane dover is waiting to welcome the fallen you fly
 

Bridge 
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scrubbed wooden pallets with white straps cinched over  
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long boxes of flag drapped aluminum 
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the c-5 is crowded when it lands in dover 
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the honor guard comes to make room again  
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and again and again and again 

Verse  
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make it straight for nineva just like jonas wale 
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holy truth you swallow over seas you sail  
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sacred is your cargo precious was their gift  
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offered in a sand storm from which your wings lift 
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those who should take notice can't watch you set down 
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behind barbed wire fences miles from their town  
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no one breathes to question this silent parade  
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except for the anguished loved ones left to say 
 
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oh big airplane bring em down easy out of the delaware sky 
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oh big airplane dover is waiting to welcome the heros you fly.....home