For all you fellow musicians out there who want to sing this song or a great song to learn if you're just starting out...like Woody Guthrie said, you play more than three chords and you're showing off...
In The News/Kris Kristofferson
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Read about the sorry way he done somebody's daughter
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Chained her to a heavy thing and threw her in the water
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And she sank into the darkness with their baby son inside her
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A little piece of truth and beauty died
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Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees
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The billion dollar bombing of a nation on its knees
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Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason
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Everyone says God is on his side
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See the lightning, hear the cries
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Of the wounded in a world in Holy war
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Mortal thunder from the skies
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Killing everything they say they're fighting for
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Broken babies, broken homes
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Broken-hearted people dying everyday
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How'd this happen, what went wrong
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Don't blame God, I swear to God I heard him say
Chorus
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"Not in my name, not on my ground
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I want nothing but the ending of the war
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No more killing, or it's over
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And the mystery won't matter anymore"
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Broken dreamers, broken rules
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Broken-hearted people just like me and you
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We are children of the stars
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Don't blame God, I swear to God he's crying too
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