X: 01
T: A Nation Full of Heroes
C: BB
L: 1/4
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M: 4/4
V: 1 clef=treble program 1 110 %fiddle
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w: As you tra-vel in A-me-ri-ca_Thru her ci-ties and small towns From_
w: May-be once a year the chil-dren come_Bear-ing flags in ti-ny hands To_
w: We_ came a-gain to know and love_Our_he-roes and their work Not_
w: We have watched a war on our T V_We were there with the Ma-rines We have
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w: Key West down in Flo-ri-da A_cross to Pu-get Sound You'll_
w: sing "God Bless A-me-ri-ca" And_lis-ten to the bands To_
w: fal-len in strange lands this time But in D C and New York And_
w: lis-tened to the a-na-lysts Tell us what the fight-ing means We were
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w: find in pla-ces big or small_Where_e'er your high-way leads A_
w: hear an old man read a speech_He can't fi-nish for the tears It was
w: out in Penn-syl-va_nia_In a field that has no name A_
w: sit-ting ea-ting pop_corn_As our sol-diers went thru Hell It's the
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w: park with a_me-mo-ri-al_With names that no one reads A_
w: some-thing a-bout a sac-ri-fice And the call a young man hears There are
w: na-tion sent_a call for help And they an-swered when it came But_
w: ul-ti-mate_ re-a-li-ty We can't grasp it all that well When a
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w: sin-gle slab of gra-nite__Or a sta-tue aged and green Of a
w: old men in their u-ni-forms_Pla-cing flo-wers near a stone And_
w: he-roes too the brave whose work_We'll_like-ly ne-ver see The_
w: he-ro's just a sta_tue_Or a name down in the park Not a
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w: pa-tri-ot who gave his life In de-fense of free-dom's dream Who_
w: some-one else will read a prayer Thru a ras-py mi-cro-phone As the
w: tea-cher, nurse, or fire_man The_ cop, the E M T The_
w: neigh-bor's kid in ca-mou-flage Dodg-ing bul-lets in the dark No, a
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w: made the ul-ti-mate sac-ri-fice_In some bat-tle long a-go But his
w: chil-dren watch_with puz-zled eyes_While the high school boy plays Taps And they
w: vo-lun-teers_who of-fer help_To a hurt voice on the phone The_
w: he-ro sits_a-stride a horse_Has his name on some town's school But_
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w: name we don't re-mem_ber And the bat-tle we don't know_We're a
w: won-der why their ma-mas cry And their dads take off their caps_
w: priest who holds an old man's hand So he will not die a-lone_
w: who can say that he-ro's death Was not lone-ly cold and cruel_
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w: na-tion full of he-roes But how quick-ly we for-get The
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w: rea-son why we ho-nor them And why we're in their debt: They have
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w: of-fered up their lives for us To keep us safe and free Our
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w: na-tion full of he-roes Such a bles-sed place_to be!-
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