Another Old Soldier Lyrics - Hardin County Line - Mark Collie

he was haggard and gray, and he walked with a limp 

he'd have him a smoke, and he'd take him a sip 

born in the summer of twenty-four, son of a veteran of the first world war 

he entered the service in forty-one, and he didn't come home till the fighting was done 

wearing a silver star on his chest, damn proud to say he was one of the best 

twenty-one guns, the stars, the stripes 

an eye full of tears, and a heart full of pride 

when you hear that distant bugle play 

another old soldier fades away 

another old soldier fades away 

he took a bullet in the hip, outside in Nam. 

he was back in the field by fifty-one 

said Douglass Macarthur, was a man among men 

and Harry s. Truman, was a horses end 

still he never questioned, his uncle Sam 

when they sent him in, to Vietnam 

they brought him home in seventy-three 

on a hundred percent, disability 

twenty-one guns, the stars, the stripes 

an eye full of tears, and a heart full of pride 

when you hear that distant bugle play 

another old soldier fades away 

another old soldier fades away 

he loved this country, with all of his might 

right up until the day he died 

in a crowded ward at the local V.A. 

another old soldier fades away 

twenty-one guns, the stars, the stripes 

an eye full of tears, and a heart full of pride 

when you hear that distant bugle play 

another old soldier fades away 

another old soldier fades away