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Watching Combat

from LIVE. by Larry Hirshberg

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Recorded live at Ten Spoon Winery on December 23rd, 2016.

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Most of you will not remember
The rest you never knew
Sergeant Saunders’ character
And what that man could do
In ’44 and ’45
On TV, colors bright
He showed a boy, who’s now a man
The hero’s way to love and fight

And now I’m watching combat
Of a different timeless kind
No Germans with their Lugers
It's D-Day in my mind
The invasion of my mind

From the beach-head of my teens
Where parts of me were killed
Into the France of starting out
With my brothers in the hills

And now I’m watching combat
Who made me dig this hole?
Not Germans with their mortars
Was the Stukas of my soul
Dive-bombers of my soul

Chorus:
I need to be like Sergeant Saunders
But with a Tommy gun of peace
Unwavering cartoon solution
But in my head, not on TV

Because now I’m watching combat
This episode’s the one
No creepy SS psychopaths
Just my mother’s son
I am my mother’s son

Chorus and repeats:
Just her memory and me
Fighting inland from the sea
Berlin will soon be free
I’m a sniper shooting healing bullets from the family tree.

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from LIVE., released April 10, 2017
Written and performed by Larry Hirshberg.

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