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john lucas - the fire of our ancestors - home version lyrics

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[verse 1]
my name’s on a gravestone in tiffin
john died halloween of ’64
his wife was named june, same as my daughter
who’s learning to crawl on the floor

[verse 2]
johnny’s june died on my birthday
five years before mine came
june found love after john died
i hope it was sweet as summer rain

[verse 3]
both of june’s loves fought in the great war
when they were both younger than me
i’ve seen a man die by a bullet
and i hope it’s something that i never see

[verse 4]
john’s nеphew was my grandpa, tom
whose married south thеre in hope mills
i remembered the whistle of his last days
when we brought my june up to the hills

[verse 5]
marlene and tom were tiffin’s sweethearts
but in ’56 the army pulled tom’s name
he sent his darling a ring in the mail
and at 21 she boarded the plane
[verse 6]
marlene and tom spoke their vows in paris
whose streets i’ve walked with my own bride
tom loved marlene for 58 years
until he breathed his last and he died

[verse 7]
my grandma still lives in the white house on main street
the home that held heaven when i was little
love lives forever but we don’t
our bodies are weak and our bones are brittle

[chorus]
what will we do with this life so precious?
when my june was born she was just two pounds
but we carry the fire of our ancestors
and we bring their should up from the ground

- john lucas lyrics

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