{"id":817,"date":"2016-01-26T01:17:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=817"},"modified":"2016-01-26T01:17:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:17:34","slug":"i-heard-a-horn-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2016\/01\/26\/i-heard-a-horn-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heard a Horn (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a young sailor my heart was carried by the wind each morn,<\/span><\/p>\n

As angels gather the souls of the men laid to rest I heard a horn,<\/span><\/p>\n

Though labeled a sailor I was a soldier with a weapon in hand,<\/span><\/p>\n

As wind blew across the land I heard angels help dead to stand,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Please Mother Nature carry my love on your winds to her today,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thought I smelled the mowed Texas grass but it soon blew away,<\/span><\/p>\n

Heard my schoolmate cry although he died a year before I came,<\/span><\/p>\n

They are hot on my trail but exhaustion has filled my worn frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The three I left behind are wearing heavy on my mind and heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve their dog tags in my pack but to leave them tearing me apart,<\/span><\/p>\n

I won’t give up, I won’t,\u00a0 I swear I will carry the tags to send home,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wonder if the dark angel that wanders the field will leave me alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve a girl back home that wants my return at least I think I’m sure,<\/span><\/p>\n

The cards I’ve been dealt weren’t the cards on the Navy brochure,<\/span><\/p>\n

I hear a chopper on the other side of this jungle I must live through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Run hard I keep telling myself and this nightmare won’t be true,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The blood on my hands matches the blood I’ve worn for two days,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve washed my hands but whatever I do the stench of death stays,<\/span><\/p>\n

Jock itch has overtaken my groin and thighs so bad that I bleed,<\/span><\/p>\n

Where is my fairy tale of romance and love, how about what I need,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve so often cried this time that my throat aches like a crying child,<\/span><\/p>\n

Praying for failed soldiers to guide me home cause I’m running wild,<\/span><\/p>\n

The sound of the chopper is gone and I’m afraid the end is coming near,<\/span><\/p>\n

If death’s to come calling just know it’s losing the girl back home I fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a young sailor my heart was carried by the wind each morn, As angels gather the souls of the men laid to rest I heard a horn, Though labeled a sailor I was a soldier with a weapon in hand, As wind blew across the land I heard angels help dead to stand,   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}