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I'm Johnny Lee

from Here, Hold This by The Creak

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lyrics

I was born in ’23 and the dusty moon watched through the trees
As my mama cared for me and my old man was lost at sea
I vowed to bring him home
I’m Johnny Lee
I’d spend my days down by the beach waiting on the man just out of reach
I looked high oh I looked low through the rain, sleet and snow
I’d pull him from the sea one day, I know

I’ve been waiting all my life just to see my mama’s eyes
When I pull into the harbor with my daddy by my side
With a smile on his face as she cries

I grew tall and I grew mean
I joined the few, the proud Marines
In ’41 them planes flew low, laid to waste that harbor so
They packed me up and off to war I’d go
I met a sailor in Saint-Étienne, said he knows a man looks just like me
I pulled the photo from my billfold, he cast aside what I’d been told
“Your dad’s alive and worth his weight in gold”

So at a bar room in Britain found the man who wore my face
At a table with his blushing bride-to-be
Stuck my pistol in his side and then I whispered in his ear,
“I’m here to drag you home.
I’m Johnny Lee.”

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from Here, Hold This, released December 1, 2012

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