Everywhere
from The Trick Is To Breathe by Sid Griffin
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Written By Greg Trooper and Sid Griffin
lyrics
Dig in boys for an extended stay
Those were the final orders to come down that day
Waitin' to be saved in the Phillippines
You wait forever in the young Marines
Now I believe to be here is right
But I have to say that I'm scared tonight
Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand
What comes first, the country or the man?
Look at those slanted eyes
They're coming up over the hill
Catching us by surprise
It's time to kill or be killed
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
All my life I have wanted to be
As clever and strong as my best friend Lee
Now we grew up together along Half Moon Bay
Lee was Japanese: born in the U.S.A.
Tommy is fighting Jerry along the River Seine
You know that me and Lee wanted to do the same
But then they bombed Pearl Harbour at the break of day
And I was headed for these islands and Lee was hauled away
Why look at those slanted eyes
You're all guilty as guilty can be
They're sent here as enemy spies
To overthrow the land of the free
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
I never got home, my platoon was never saved
That little foxhole became my island grave
And Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained
Until he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain
Oh, Mr Slanted eyes
Can't you forgive and forget?
And Lee said
"Oh Mr Holy Ghost,
Can you catch water in a net?"
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
Those were the final orders to come down that day
Waitin' to be saved in the Phillippines
You wait forever in the young Marines
Now I believe to be here is right
But I have to say that I'm scared tonight
Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand
What comes first, the country or the man?
Look at those slanted eyes
They're coming up over the hill
Catching us by surprise
It's time to kill or be killed
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
All my life I have wanted to be
As clever and strong as my best friend Lee
Now we grew up together along Half Moon Bay
Lee was Japanese: born in the U.S.A.
Tommy is fighting Jerry along the River Seine
You know that me and Lee wanted to do the same
But then they bombed Pearl Harbour at the break of day
And I was headed for these islands and Lee was hauled away
Why look at those slanted eyes
You're all guilty as guilty can be
They're sent here as enemy spies
To overthrow the land of the free
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
I never got home, my platoon was never saved
That little foxhole became my island grave
And Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained
Until he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain
Oh, Mr Slanted eyes
Can't you forgive and forget?
And Lee said
"Oh Mr Holy Ghost,
Can you catch water in a net?"
Over here over there
It's the same everywhere
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
A young boy cries out for his Momma
Before he dies for his home
credits
from The Trick Is To Breathe,
released July 2, 2020
(c) Greg Trooper and Sid Griffin
Published by Sony/ATV songs/BMI & Songs of Welk/BMI
(c) Greg Trooper and Sid Griffin
Published by Sony/ATV songs/BMI & Songs of Welk/BMI
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Sid Griffin London, UK
Yep, I'm the guy from the Americana founders the Long Ryders in 1980s L.A. & the guy in the first ever alt-bluegrass act, the Coal Porters, recently out of London. You bet make solo albums & perform singer-songwriter gigs, I’ve toured solo from London to Los Angeles to Sydney to Hong Kong to Helsinki too. Million Dollar Bash is my well-received book on The Basement Tapes and I've never met Dylan. ... more
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