John Prine – Take The Star Out Of The Window (Guitar)

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Robert was a sailor for the best years of his life

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His captain was his mother and the ocean was his wife

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Only fresh out of the cradle, life's one and only spring

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He was sworn to do his duty and got blood on his high school ring

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And it's hello California, hello Dad and Mom

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Ship ahoy, your baby boy is home from Vietnam

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Don't you ask me any questions about the medals on my chest

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Take the star out of the window and let my conscience take a rest

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Now he sailed across the ocean to the old Far Eastern war

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And it was foreign to his body, it was foreign to his shore

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So he traded in the present for the better times he'd seen

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And made an Oriental waitress his own homecomin' queen

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And it's hello California, hello Dad and Mom

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Ship ahoy, your baby boy is home from Vietnam

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Don't you ask me any questions about the medals on my chest

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Take the star out of the window and let my conscience take a rest