Johnny Come Lately

 

 

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1. I'm an American, boys, come a long way (lugnt!)
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I was born and bred in the U.S.A.
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Listen up close I got something to say.
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Boys I'm buyin' this round.

 

2. Well it took a little while but were in this fight. Ain't goin home till were done what's right.
I'm gonna drink Camden Town Dry tonight.
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If I have to spend my last pound.

 

3. When I first got to London it was pooring down rain. I met a little girl in a field canteen. (ös!)
Painted her name on the nose of my plane, six more missions and I'm gone.

 

4. Well I asked if I could stay and she said that I might.
Then the warden came around and shut out the light.
Death rained out of the London night.
We made love 'til dawn.

 

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Refr Well when Johnny Come Lately, comes marching home,
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Chestfull of medals and a G.I. loan.
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They'll be waiting at the station down at San Antone
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When Johnny comes marching home.

 

4. My P-47 is a pretty good ship, took a round coming cross the channel last trip.
Just thinkin' bout my baby and lettin' her rip always got me through so far.

 

5. Well, they can send me all over this great big world, never found nothin' like my north end girl.
Takin' her home with me one day, Sir, soon as we win this war.

 

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6. Now my grandaddy sang this song, told me bout London when the Blitz was on, (lugnt!)
how he married grandma and brought her back home, hero throughout this land.

 

7. Now I'm standing on a runway in San Diego, couple Purple Hearts and I move a little slow. (ös!)
There's nobody here ain't nobody knows 'bout a place called Vietnam.

 

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