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In Nineteen Sixty Seven the draft caught up with me,
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me and my pal Joe went off to war.
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We might find hero's heaven, but we'd keep the country free.
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We would surely win just like before.
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Roy Rogers he was on his horse,
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and Buck Jones drew his gun.
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We would surely win of course
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when the battle was all done.
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Nineteen Sixty Seven I came back alone,
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they brought Joe back in plastic on the plane.
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Nineteen Sixty Seven seems so long ago,
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but I can't forget my friend or ease my pain.
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His family may forget him, his children may regret him,
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his wife may find another and go on.
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His picture may grow faded and the world he knew gone jaded
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but as long as I shall live I surely know,
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I never will forget my buddy Joe.
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In Nineteen Sixty Seven, the war was raging on,
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our country was divided and reborn.
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Though I was back at home, I had never left Saigon,
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'cause all I got was ridicule and scorn.
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This was no place for hero's now,
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they all seemed to resent me,
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They said "Why did you ever go?"
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I said "Because they sent me."
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Nineteen Sixty Seven they buried my friend Joe,
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and I was flashing back while people wept.
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I thought of how he saved us and I watched the land-mine blow,
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and I looked down at his dog-tag that I kept.
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You'll always be a young man, you always will be smiling,
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you always will be confident and true.
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Your picture may grow faded and the world you knew gone jaded,
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but as long as I shall live I surely know,
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I never will forget my buddy Joe.
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Long as I shall live I surely know,
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I never will forget you buddy Joe.