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I'LL NEVER KILL ANOTHER MAN Vietnam War Ballad song lyrics by Joel Sattler
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Written in 1972, this is a story told to me by my friend Snoopy, a Vietnam War vet who, on his third tour of duty, got hung upsidedown in a crashed helicopter for 12 hours before he was rescued: the only survivor in his company. He got a dishonorable discharge when he refused to go back into the field. He had had enough....

I'LL NEVER KILL ANOTHER MAN song lyrics/Words by Joel Sattler



Back home they tried to teach me

The things they thought were right

But when I came of age

They sent me off to fight

Said, "Serve your country son

The best that you can...."


I've sent how many man

To hell or paradise?

Until I learned the god dam war

Was nothing but a lie.

The truth lies in an unmarked grave

In some forgotten land


I'll never kill another man....


The sergeant sent me to

The colonel who got mad

"Do what we order you

Or you're in trouble bad."

I later heard that he was fragged

While on his last command


I'll never kill another man....


O darling turn around

And don't you cry for me

Remember that behind

These prison bars I remain free

My duty or my soul,

I had to take a stand.....


I'll never kill another man....


I'll never kill another man....


 


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