Tonart: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
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Em
C
Detroit to D.C. night train,
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Am
Capitol, parts East.
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Em
Lone young man takes a seat.
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Em
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And by the rhythm of the rails,
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Em
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Reading all his mother's mail from a city boy
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G
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Em
in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.
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He'll go live his mother's dream,
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join the slowest parade he'll ever see.
C
Her weight of sorrows carried
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long and carried far.
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Em
"Take these, Tommy, to The Wall."
Verse 2
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Metro line to the Mall site with a
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He's wandering and lost until a vet in worn fatigues
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takes him down to where they belong.
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Em
Near a soldier, an ex-Marine with with a
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tattooed dagger and eagle trembling,
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He bites his lip beside a
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widow breaking down.
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She takes her Purple Heart,
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Em
makes a fist, strikes The Wall.
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All come to live a dream,
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to join the slowest parade they'll ever see.
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Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried far,
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Em
taken to The Wall.
Verse 3
Em
It's 40 paces to the year
Em
His hand's slipping down The Wall
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G
for it's slick with rain.
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Am
G
How would life have ever been the same if
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this wall had carved in it one less name?
Em
But for Christ's sake,
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he's been dead over 20 years.
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He leaves the letters asking, "Who caused my mother's tears,
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Am
was it Washington or the Viet Cong?"
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Em
Slow deliberate steps are involved.
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Em
He takes them away from the black granite wall toward
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the other monuments so white and clean.
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Verse 4
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O, Potomac, what you've seen.
C
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Abraham had his war too,
Am
Or so it's taught in school.
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