Nineteen

Nineteen

Number on his back

Voted captain of his high school football team

Took us all the way to state

Got a scholarship to play down in tennessee

Said he could run he could duck

He could throw he could go

Like you never seen

Nineteen

On the day those twin towers came down

His whole world turned around

He told 'em all y'all I can't play ball

There's a war on now

So he marched right in with a few good men

And joined the Marines

Nineteen

He's the boy next door

He might've carried your bags at the grocery store

Now he's somebody's son in a hole with a gun

In some foreign land

Trying to hold on to his American dreams

Nineteen

There's a sniper out there in the dark somewhere

And a soldier down

Need someone who can run who can duck

And go get him out

It takes one good man to raise his hand

Take one for the team

How 'bout you nineteen

He's the boy next door

He might've carried your bags at the grocery store

Now he's somebody's son in a hole with a gun

In some foreign land

Trying to hold on to his American dreams

Nineteen

Brought him home today

With the big parade down on main street

Gave him a purple heart a silver star

Soldier gave a speech

Said he could run he could duck he could throw

He's the one who rescued me

Said he could've played for tennessee

Um number nineteen

He was nineteen