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Song Information:

I began writing this about a week after my dad left us.

My songwriter friend Beverly held my hand through the writing and editing and it would be a much different song if it hadn't been for her encouragement and guidance.

Goodbye, Dad.

Song Lyrics:

[b]Verse[/b]
21 guns on a dead man's hill
If life don't get you, time will
He packed his bags and he caught that train

We sang Amazing Grace in the afternoon rain

The ladies fed us at the Baptist church
I couldn't eat, there was too much hurt
I went to my mother's home

I walked those rooms, but not alone



[b]Chorus[/b]
I hear echoes of everything he ever said
The good and the bad, and everything in between
Memories of 40 years crashing through my head
Is my father gone, or is this just a dream

21 guns shout reality
21 guns set his soul free


[b]Verse[/b]
As a boy I got my feelings hurt
By some of the things he'd say and do
But there came a time when I realized

That he used to be a little boy too

It's been a year, the time went fast
10,000 tears have dried at last
We talk now like we were old friends

I know someday we will meet again


© 2005 Patrick Clark