"War Song"
by Brian K. Vagnini

(FX) Thunder and rain, then helicopters taking off

2x
(I) G C || (guitar only first time through)

G C
(V) Helicopters flying into the sun
Going off to battle
A young man, Thrust into war
Away from home for the first time

F C
(C) In a foreign country
Unsure of himself
Doesn't know who to trust
Em G
Or who is friend or foe

(V) Girlfriend back home
Don't know if he's alive anymore
Mom is worried too
Will he make it through

(C)

(V)
(FX) Enter Rain again, then Taps played somber, then 3 rifle shots

(spoken) On behalf of the President of the United States and a grateful nation,
Please accept this flag as a token our appreciation for the faithful and
honorable service rendered by your loved one......I 'm sorry ma'am...
He was a good boy...

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I was in Korea, a mere 18 years old and away from home for the first time in my life. I was feeling very depressed and just wrote my thoughts out on paper. I ended up with twelve sentences. Five years later, I'm in a graphic design class and have to abstractly illustrate a twelve sentence story. This song is the result. I spent an hour and a half on the project and siz hours recording the song. Needless to say, at the critique, i received an A+ for the project. Here is some of the art associated with the song. It was composited out of five different photographs. My thanks go out to the photographers that I sampled from for this image.

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