POOR HOWARD WENT TO WAR
Based on "Poor Howard's Dead and Gone"
Updated lyrics © Bill Dobbins
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Song to the casualities of the Iraq, Afghanistan wars by Bill Dobbins
www.arlingtonwestsantamonica.org

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Poor Howard's dead and gone, left me here to sing this song.
Poor Howard's dead and gone, left me here to sing this song.
Poor Howard's dead and he's gone, poor Howard's dead and he's gone.
Poor Howard's dead and he's gone, left me here to sing this song.

Poor Howard went to war, like his daddy did before.
He took a rifle in his hand and went off to a foreign land.

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Poor Howard's mother cried, when she heard her boy had died.
They laid his body down to rest, with a medal on his chest.

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His mother never thought her son would face the barrel of a gun.
But when he heard his country call poor Howard had no choice at all.

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Poor Howard's not alone, a lot of boys ain't coming home.
He's just one among the rest and now in peace their souls shall rest.