Sam Stone - Swamp Dogg

Sam Stone came home

To his wife and family

After serving in the conflict overseas.

In the Times that he serve

It had shattered all his nerve

And left a little shrapnel in his knee

But the morphine eased the pain

And the grass grew round his brain

And gave him all the confidence he lack

For a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back

There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes

Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose

Little pictures have big ears

But don’t stop to count the years

Sweet songs never last to long on broken radios

Sam Stone’s welcome home didn’t last too long

He went to work when he spent his last dime

And then Sammy took to stealing

When he got that empty feeling

For a hundred dollar habit without overtime

And the cold r thru his veins

Like a thousand railroad trains

Eased his mind in the hours that he chose

While his kids ran around wearing other people’s clothes.

There’s a whole in daddy s arm where all the money goes

Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose

Little pictures have big ears

But don’t stop to count the years

Sweet songs never last to long on broken radios.

Sam Stone was alone when he popped his last balloon

Climbing walls while sit in a chair

But he played his last request

While the room smelled just like death

With an overdose hovering in the air.

But life had lost all its fun

And there’s nothing to be done

But trade his house that he bought on a GI bill

For a Flag ship casket over at Motel Heroes’Hill

There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes.

Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose

Little pictures have big ears

But don’t stop to count the years

Sweet songs never last to long on broken radios