Key: F
Introduction: A# Fm F Fm F Fm F
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Nineteen
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The number on his back wore the captain of
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the high school football team
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Took us all the way to state
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Got a scholarship to play down in Tennessee
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He could catch he could throw he could run he
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could go like you've never seen
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Nineteen
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But on the day those twin towers came down
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his whole world turned around
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He told them all I can't play ball there's a war on now
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He marched right in with a few good
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men and joined the marines
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At nineteen
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He's a boy next door
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He might of carried your bags at the grocery store
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Now he's somebody's son in a hole
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with a gun in a foreign land
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Trying to hold on to his American dream
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At nineteen
There's a sniper out there in the dark