Traveling Soldier

One Friday night
at a football game
The Lord's Prayer
said and the anthem sang
A man said folks
would you bow your head
For the list of
local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone
under the stands
Was the piccolo player
in the marching band
And one name read
and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl
with a bow in her hair

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