No Forgotten Man

	  		                  
 
 

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From the woods of California to the banks of Ohio 

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I've always worked each day God sent as best I'm able 

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While both me and the crops they failed, those damn wolves came to my door 

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I just couldn't put no food upon the table 

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Time to step up, boy, and be a man. 


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So they stuck you 'neath a helmet and put a shovel in your hand 

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Sayin' it's time to step up, boy, your family needs ya' 

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And though we struggled hard to save, they say our money turned no good 

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And that there's not gonna' be enough to feed ya' 

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And they say it never happened 'cause they can. 


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So they rob us of our livin', kick us down with shiny shoes 

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God knows we've paid for our dreamin' 

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And now they're trying to tell us that they'll own us 'till the end 

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Someone better pray that luck means justice 

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'Cause I'll be no forgotten man. 


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So they stuck me 'neath a helmet, put a gun into my hand 

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Saying time to step up, boy, your country needs ya'. 

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They rounded us like slaughter, they shipped us all to hell 

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Sayin' what doesn't kill you boy is gonna' free ya'. 

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Pretend it didn't happen if you can. 


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But I did my share of killin' and I took my share of war 

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God knows I bled for my leader 

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And now you're trying to tell me my enemy's my friend 

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They'll only pray as long as there is freedom 

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But I'll be no forgotten man. 


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These days I wheel the city, where the streets don't know my name 

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They'll say time to move on boy 'cause no one needs you. 

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In the shot glass there's no mercy, in your bottle only blame 

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Though you shout the deeds you done no one believes ya' 


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Come, man, spare a nickel if you can 

     
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Cause all I've got's a story, no kin to call my own 

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No photographs to pin upon a feelin' 

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But what you're trying to tell me makes the truth too hard to bend 

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And maybe there's just too much made of freedom 

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Then I'll be no forgotten man. 


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'Cause one man's chains become another's freedom 

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So I'll be no forgotten man. 


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'Cause one man's chains becomes another's freedom 

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So you'll be no forgotten man.