Lou Reed – Xmas In February (Guitar)

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Sam was lyin' in the jungle

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Agent orange spread against the sky like marmalade

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 Hendrix played on some foreign jukebox

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They were praying to be saved

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Those gooks were fierce and fearless

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That's the price you pay when you invade

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Xmas in February

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Sam lost his arm in some border  town

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His fingers are mixed with someone's crop

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If he didn't have that opium to smoke

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The pain would never ever stop

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Half his friends are stuffed into black body    bags

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With their names printed at the top

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Xmas in February

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Sammy was a short order cook

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In a short order black and blue collar town

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Everybody worked the steel mill

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But the steel mill got closed down

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He thought if he joined the Army

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He'd have a future that was sound

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Like no Xmas in February

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Sam's staring at the Vietnam     Wall

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It's been a while now that he's home

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His wife and kid have left, he's unemployed

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He's a reminder of the war that wasn't won

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He's that guy on the street with the sign that reads

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"Please help send this Vet home"

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But he is home

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And there's no Xmas in February, no matter how much he saves