Nineteen
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The number on his back wore the captain of the high school football team
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Took us all the way to state
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Got a scholarship to play down in Tennessee
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He could catch he could throw he could run he could go like you've never seen
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Nineteen
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But on the day those twin towers came down his whole world turned around
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He told them all I can't play ball there's a war on now
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He marched right in with a few good men and joined the marines
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At nineteen
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[chorus]
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He's a boy next door
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He might of carried your bags at the grocery store
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Now he's somebody's son in a hole with a gun in a foreign land
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Trying to hold on to his American dream
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At nineteen
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There's a sniper out there in the dark somewhere and a soldier is down
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Need someone who can duck and run and get him out somehow
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What one good man will raise his hand and take one for the team
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How bout you nineteen?
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[chorus]
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He's a boy next door
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He might of carried your bags at the grocery store
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Now he's somebody's son in a hole with a gun in a foreign land
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Trying to hold on to his American dream
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Nineteen
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Nineteen
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Brought him home today with a big parade down on main street
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Gotta Purple Heart and a Silver Star solder gave a speech
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Said he could catch he could throw he could run he's the one that rescued me
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...could have played for Tennessee
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He was nineteen
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He was only nineteen
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Nineteen
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Taylor Hicks |