posting this up because it's going to be performed soon and we would like feedback. This is the first rough draft so we know it's not that great. please help us out. We've been working on it for the past few hours so we need a break and another eye. Let’s do it for our country, the red, white, and the blue. It's Uncle Sam who's asking, so your mother will approve. Tomorrow I'll be fighting, and I'll win this war for you. Let's do it for our country, our country wants us to. Jokingly you sang to me as we lay on your bed Discussing the future, our future, and this war Making plans that deep down I think we both knew would never ever really come true. Still we talked and we dreamed Just like all teenage couple in love should do My daddy served in the army Where he lost his right eye But he flew a flag out in our yard Until the day that he died He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me To grow up and live happy In the land of the free. When I asked you why you had to do this That’s what you replied Some people are Greek legacies Some follow in the family business Some go to college cause that’s what they were told to do I followed in my family job you said Like my brothers, my father, and my grandfather So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you’ll wait for me Hold me like you’ll never let me go Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go And just like that you were gone First boot camp, then training, then Iraq It was really happening All these scenes that we’ve watched in movies All these songs that we’ve heard on the radio All these TV shows we use to watch Were all really coming true I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end Waitin' for the soldier to come back again Never more to be alone when the letter said A soldier's coming home But that’s not the letter that came in the mail Instead it was one of a horror tale How could one person, so young, so innocent See so much and have to Go through so much and still stay strong You are my love, my hero, my man Is what I replied along with filling you in about home And My Dearest Love, its almost dawn. I've been lying here all night long wondering where you might be. I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring. Man on the television said something so I couldn't sleep. But I'll be all right, I'm just missing you. An' this is me kissing you: XX's and OO's, In a letter from home. And we continued this way For two long years Me sending you letters to boost your mood To keep you going You sending me letters of everything you saw And did Some hopeful and optimistic Others not And I will always do my duty No matter what the price I've counted up the cost I know the sacrifice Oh and I don't wanna die for you But if dying's asked of me I'll bear that cross with honor Cause freedom don't come free As time passed your letter got more and more morbid The hope and determination were still there But it was covered and masked With despair and pain And then one day they just stopped And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. ‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.
thanks. well the parts that are in italics are of course songs so either we will split it up into two people doing it. . . one singing and the other reading or I will do the whole thing my self
that was great!! my boyfriends in the forces and it struck a chord with me straight away. really emotive. *sniffle*
