Lyrics Another Old Soldier - Mark Collie
He
was
haggard
and
gray,
and
he
walked
with
a
limp
He'd
have
him
a
smoke,
and
he'd
take
him
a
sip
Born
in
the
summer
of
twenty-four,
son
of
a
veteran
of
the
first
world
war
He
entered
the
service
in
forty-one,
And
he
didn't
come
home
till
the
fighting
was
done
Wearing
a
silver
star
on
his
chest,
Damn
proud
to
say
he
was
one
of
the
best
Twenty-one
guns,
the
stars,
the
stripes
An
eye
full
of
tears,
and
a
heart
full
of
pride
When
you
hear
that
distant
bugle
play
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
He
took
a
bullet
in
the
hip,
outside
in
Nam.
He
was
back
in
the
field
by
fifty-one
Said
Douglass
Macarthur,
was
a
man
among
men
And
Harry
s.
Truman,
was
a
horses
end
Still
he
never
questioned,
his
uncle
Sam
When
they
sent
him
in,
to
Vietnam
They
brought
him
home
in
seventy-three
On
a
hundred
percent,
disability
Twenty-one
guns,
the
stars,
the
stripes
An
eye
full
of
tears,
and
a
heart
full
of
pride
When
you
hear
that
distant
bugle
play
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
He
loved
this
country,
with
all
of
his
might
Right
up
until
the
day
he
died
In
a
crowded
ward
at
the
local
V.A.
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
Twenty-one
guns,
the
stars,
the
stripes
An
eye
full
of
tears,
and
a
heart
full
of
pride
When
you
hear
that
distant
bugle
play
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
Another
old
soldier
fades
away
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