<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes" by Rod McKuen</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/RodMcKuen/Soldiers_Who_Want_to_be_Heroes.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/RodMcKuen/Soldiers_Who_Want_to_be_Heroes.mp3</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></font>(Sing along . . . )</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come and take my eldest son, show him how to shoot a gun</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Wipe his eyes if he starts to cry when the bullets fly.</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Give him a rifle, take his hoe, show him a field where he can go</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">To lay his body down and die without asking why</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sticks and stones can break your bones; even names can hurt you</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But the thing that hurts the most is when a man deserts you</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Don't you think its time to weed the leaders that no longer lead</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">From the people of the land who'd like to see their sons again?</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God if men could only see the lessons taught by history</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">That all the singers of this song cannot right a single wrong</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Let all men of good will stay in the fields they have to till</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Feed the mouths they have to fill and cast away their arms</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians."</div></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>