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[Verse 1]
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His dying barely made the morning paper
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And they summed it up in twenty words or more
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Killed in action leaves wife and baby
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At Route 1 Box 144
[Verse 2]
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He grew up on a little farm just a couple of miles out of town
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As a boy he worked in his daddy's field
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And when his daddy could spare him, he hired out to the neighbors
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For whatever they could pay him, he was thought of as just average a good boy
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Nothing more the average amount of friends
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He married his high school sweetheart
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They brought a little plot of ground
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Couple of miles out of town on a mailbox it said
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Route 1 Box 144
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Well back in town there were very few people that really knew him
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Because he hardly ever came to town
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Except for maybe on Saturdays of course the usual crew was always there
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But he didn't spent a lot of times with the usual crew, he took care of his business
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Bought what he had to have or could afford for his family and went back to his little farm
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With a baby on the way he went to the army and it was a short while
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That the news came that he was killed in action
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His body was sent back on a plane and then by train
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And then they brought the body from the train station to Route 1 Box 144
[Outro]
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He never did great things to be remembered
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He'd never been away from home before
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But you'd've thought that he was president or something
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At Route 1 Box 144
