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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs by Paul Carbuncle

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When Johnny comes marching home again
When Johnny comes marching home again
When Johnny comes marching home again
We’ll all go out to welcome him
And never mind the shape he’s in

We’ll ask him how the fighting went
We’ll ask him how the fighting went
We’ll ask him how the fighting went
And how he likes the president
Casualties are an accident

We’ll beat our drums and wave our flags
We’ll beat our drums and wave our flags
We’ll beat our drums and wave our flags
The grand, the great, the glorious rags
The ones they put on the body-bags

And later when the sickness comes
And later when the sickness comes
Later when the sickness comes
From chemicals and uranium
We’ll wring our hands and all act dumb

Oh the veterans they played their part
The veterans they played their part
The veterans they played their part
They came home with a Purple Heart
Now they’re wandering round with a shopping cart

Where are the legs you used to run
Where are the legs you used to run
Where are the legs you used to run
Before you went to carry a gun?
I’m afraid your dancing days are done

Oh we kill them and they kill us back
We kill them and they kill us back
We kill them and they kill us back
And they say it’s always been like that
What a load of crap

So tip your hat and take a bow
Tip your hat and take a bow
Tip your hat and take a bow
And get on with your life somehow
They’re taking your little brother now

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from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs, released April 9, 2018
Traditional song reworked by Jim Page and rearranged by Roy Bailey.

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