| Mother, Try to do right by you
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| To do what you asked me to
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| I did wrong and I knew
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| Mother I tried to behave for you
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| Now I’m a digging a grave for you
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| It was all I could do
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| Find a way back home, Make everything new
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| But I wish it was true
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| Father, well I’ll give my soul to you
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| I came in blind folded for you
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| It was all that I knew
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| Open your arms and I’ll fly out of hell up to you
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| I wish it was true
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| Boy come on out from the cold
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| Your lost outside there don’t you know
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| It’s not what you say it was you do
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| Just keep wishing your wishes are true
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| Well your dreams there reality
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| There’s no pain there’s no misery
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| Just polish the blood and the bruise
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| For there’s just no way you can lose
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| But I wish it was true
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| Country, I was a soldier for you
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| I did what you asked me to
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| It was wrong and you knew
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| Country, now I’m just a stranger to you
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| A number a name it’s true
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| Throw me away when you’re through
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| Home of the brave and free, the red white and blue
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| But I wish it was true |