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The Iraq Song

from Vincent Rolls by Dave Manning

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Well they, hit us hard that morning
Hit us right between the eyes
As I went to work that morning, the towers fell from the skies
Yea the towers fell from the skies

They attacked freedom
They attacked you and I
Well they died young and strong
And I didn’t ask why
We didn’t bother askin why

Two days later he enlisted,
Sayin they can’t do that to us
He rode down to Fort Bragg in the back of a Greyhound bus
Singin don’t mess with the U.S., Don’t mess with US

He’s gonna fight for freedom
He’s gonna fight for you and I
He’s brave young and strong
For America he’s willing to die
For Freedom, he’s willing to die

He trained hard, he wrote home
Gonna protect America from attack
Gonna bring the fight to the terrorists
But instead they sent him to Iraq
Yea instead they sent him to Iraq

Now he’s gonna fight for freedom
He’s gonna fight for you and I
He’s brave young and strong
For Iraq he’s willing to die
In the oilfields, he’ willing to die

He was there for one day
In a convoy rollin down the road
Laughin, smoking cigarettes, when the pipe bomb did explode
He died by the side of the road

But they tell me he died for freedom
Sayin he died for you and I
Well he died young and strong
And I don’t know why,
Why did he have to die?

A few years later we come to find out
They knew it all along,
There were no nukes, no chemical bombs
Our justification is all gone
Imminent threat was wrong
Iraq was no threat all along

He didn’t die for freedom
He didn’t die for you and I
He died young and strong
Now they say it was all a lie,
They’re tellin me he died for a lie
He died for a lie
Nuclear bombs, they were a lie
Chemical bombs, they were a lie
Imminent threat, it was a lie
Iraq was a lie
He died for a lie

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from Vincent Rolls, released January 1, 2008

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Dave Manning Arizona Village, Arizona

He's played Folsom Prison. He's opened for the likes of Dan Bern, Mose Allison, and Squirrel Nut Zippers frontman James Mathus. He's held up traffic all over the west puttering along in an old VW Microbus that Arlo Guthrie autographed. Dave is living his life in the old tradition of the traveling-storytelling songwriters. ... more

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