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Hero In ’42 Lyrics by The Customers

Green Bottle Thursday

1996

Up on the hill there lives a man
Sometimes he gets his dinner from a garbage can
Nobody knows what he might do
But he was a hero in ‘42
He was a hero in 1942
Alone in a trench, he killed hundreds of men
Helping the U.S. win again
Recommended for a medal too
But the army wouldn’t give because he was a Jew
He was a hero in 1942
And the Generals stayed up their ivory towers
Like the kids in the schoolyard, that called him a coward
He walks the streets under bright moonlight
Feeling the guilt for what he did that night
Defending a country that wouldn’t honor its own
Calling all patriots to the telephone
He was a hero in 1942
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"Hero In ’42" appears on "Green Bottle Thursday" in 1996.

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