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Album: Live From Inside
(vrs 1)
All state quarterback with 47 wins
His senior year a dozen schools kept the letters rolling in
But he stayed in his home state to play for Tennessee
He was Knoxville bound to make football history
Then one morning, he changed his mind
He volunteered for the army and made his mama cry
And told his daddy, I need to be a man
Football can wait; I gotta go help Uncle Sam
(chorus)
He's not the captain or the star of the team any more
Just another one of our boys fighting in a war
Sometimes there's things more important than a dream
He traded Tennessee orange for faded army green
(vrs 2)
One night they were keeping watch and talking 'bout back home
He said, Boys I miss East Tennessee but this thing won't last long
When out of nowhere, the shells began to fly
And right there on that desert floor he stepped out of this life
Onto a field of perfect green, where soldiers live forever and freedom is free
But here today in his hometown,
They gave his mom a folded flag and laid him in the ground
(chorus)
He's not the captain or the star of the team any more
But he's a hero and a son that won't e coming back from war
Sometimes there's things more important than a dream
He traded Tennessee orange for faded army green
(bridge)
He did what he didn't have to do
He sacrificed his life, bled and died for me and you
(tag)
Sometimes there's things more important than a dream
He traded Tennessee orange for faded army green
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