Alex J Longo - The Gold Star Lyrics

America
America
God gave our gifts to thee

I heard your name after you passed
Not taken in vain but why oh why I asked
You came and went a few years ahead of me
Half the man I could ever be
A baby on the way
Yet you deployed so far
Now resting on the flag

A gold star
A gold star

Driving vanguard six around
In a tent one night so sound
But you were taken
When no cover was to be found
They spoke of you fondly
Not a dry eye in sight
As I watched your widow and baby
No no no it just ain't right

Heidelberg named the scif for you
For your service and the life given to
Heard the stories of your character downtown
Always in our hearts
Specialist Lunsford Brown
A life given for us
Raised our steins at the bar
For your battle buddies
Resting on the flag

A gold star
A gold star

You a Lance Corporal
Semper Fi Marine
Hailed from Montana and Colorado
With a guitar sometimes seen
You loved country music
And some Johnny Cash
But two thousand five
Would be the Christmas before you passed
Heaven gained an angel
A Marine who raised the bar
Now resting on the flag

A gold star
A gold star

One snowy night
Back home you touched down
Everyone stood and watched
As you passed thru downtown
Etched in the snow of the football field
Honor N P
For the life you did yield
Lord bless our Marine
Our fallen
Lance Corporal Nick Palmer
Heaven gained an angel
A Marine who raised the bar
Now resting on the flag

A gold star

On this day we honor
Those who gave their all
For our flag-all of us
They did fall
Dwell not on how they died
Remember their lives
And how their memory survives
For all our heroes
Who've carried us this far
Since seventeen seventy-five
Resting on the flag

The gold star
The gold star