Alone on the Homestead
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Michael J Merenda, Jr
(the mammals - departures)

INTRO/INTERLUDE [rhythm like 1st 2 lines of verse]: 

D         D           Bm
G         D           A           D


D         D                     Bm
I was the oldest in a family of four kids
G               D        A      Bm
don't have much faith in anyone anymore
D               D                        Bm
The war took my brothers the war took my dad
G               D           A            Bm
the war took my husband and everything I had

Bm        Bm         D            D
Alone         on the homestead 
         Bm          Bm           D
With the bones
       D
Of the fallen dead

REPEAT INTRO/INTERLUDE

The enemy was faceless the country was scared
The government impatient the boys unprepared
When families got their boys back in only bodybags
The papers wouldn't even print coffins draped with flags

Alone on the homestead
With the bones
Of the fallen dead

REPEAT INTRO/INTERLUDE

Casualties were so high no one could afford
Coffins draped with flags for the fallen of this war
And when the war is over and too many have bled
I doubt I'll feel much safer alone on my homestead

Alone on the homestead
With the bones
Of the fallen dead

REPEAT INTRO/INTERLUDE

I was the oldest in a family of four kids
don't have much faith in anyone anymore
The war took my brothers the war took my dad
the war took my husband and everything I had