Berikut adalah lirik dan kord gitar untuk lagu tersebut, yang berada dalam kunci dasar Em.
Intro
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Verse 1
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Detroit to D.C.,
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Night train, capitol, parts east
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Lone young man takes a seat
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And by the rhythm of the rails
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Reading all his mother’s mail
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From a city boy in a jungle town
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Postmarked : Saigon
Refrain
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He’ll go live his mother’s dream
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Join the slowest parade he’ll ever see
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Her weight of sorrows carried long and carried far
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“Take these, Tommy, to the wall”
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Metro line to the mall site with a tour of Japanese
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He’s wandering and lost until
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A vet in worn fatigues
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Takes him down to where they belong.
Verse 2
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Near a soldier, an ex-marine
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With a tattooed dagger and eagle trembling
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He bites his lip beside a widow breaking down
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She takes her purple heart, makes a fist, strikes the wall
Refrain
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All come to live a dream
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To join the slowest parade they’ll ever see
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Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried far
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Are taken to the wall
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It’s 40 paces to the year that he was slain
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His hand’s slipping down the wall for it’s slick with rain
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How would life have ever been the same
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If this wall had carved in it one less name?
Bridge
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But for Christ’s sake, he’s been dead over 20 years
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He leaves the letters asking
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“who caused my mother’s tears
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Was it Washington or the Viet Cong?”
Verse 3
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Slow deliberate steps are involved
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He takes them away from the black granite wall
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Toward the other monuments so white and clean
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O, Potomac, what you’ve seen
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Abraham had his war too
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But an honest war
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Or so it’s taught in school.
