Nineteen
The number on his back wore the captain of
the high school football team


Took us all the way to state
Got a scholarship to play down in Tennessee


He could catch he could throw he could run he
could go like you've never seen


Nineteen
But on the day those twin towers came down

his whole world turned around
He told them all I can't play ball there's a war on now
He marched right in with a few good

men and joined the marines

At nineteen


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He's a boy next door

He might of carried your bags at the grocery store
Now he's somebody's son in a hole
with a gun in a foreign land

Trying to hold on to his American dream

At nineteen


There's a sniper out there in the dark
somewhere and a soldier is down

Need someone who can duck and run and get him out somehow
What one good man will raise his hand
and take one for the team

How bout you nineteen?

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He's a boy next door
He might of carried your bags at the grocery store
Now he's somebody's son in a hole

with a gun in a foreign land
Trying to hold on to his American dream


Nineteen Nineteen

Brought him home today with a big

parade down on main street
Gotta Purple Heart and a Silver Star solder gave a speech
Said he could catch he could throw he could

run he's the one that rescued me

...could have played for Tennessee

He was nineteen
He was only nineteen