Key: C
Introduction: C
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There's tombstone in a snowy field
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Close by an old ghost town
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The epitaph's been weather-blown away
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There's a belltower where petitions peeled
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It's been half torn down
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But it must have softened every soul that came to pray
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There's a schoolhouse full of broken glass
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And wounded walls
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The rusty swings like derelicts sleeping in the weeds
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There's a picture-graduation class
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Staring down deserted halls
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"THE HOPE OF 44" is what it reads
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It's just as if some restless wind blew their dreams away far away
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It's just as if those dreams had never been but oh
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I feel their ghosts around me now - I hear them say
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They've come back home to dream those dreams again
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They've come back home to dream those dreams again