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( Child soldier song lyrics )
CHILDREN OF WAR
( Puppy Soldiers )
Copyright © 2006 - mickterry.com

1: His first contact with an AK,
at the ripe old age of five,
was the murder of his father outside their door
by three rebels having a hey-day
as they plundered his whole tribe,
all- in the names of politics, God and war.

2: His mother, beaten & savaged,
had so bravely tried to fight,
couldn't save his older brothers, both dragged away.
Through the next two rainy seasons,
he could barely sleep at night
'til a warring faction came to make him their slave.

CHORUS:
Children of war, just puppy soldiers.
A much less visible target, but still all trained to kill.
Children of war, just puppy soldiers.
They're just little boys with grownup toys,
playing war that's all too real.

3: They drilled him with wooden rifles,
trained him to obey commands
with a sergeant barely older than his own age.
& they showed him tricks of survival
in the forests & the sands.
And they filled his growing heart with a lot of hate.
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
"Hey, this be fun. All this killing and fighting.
Yes I lose some friends, but we not that close.
Hey, this be fun. For sure, it be exciting.
But it be my two big brothers I miss most."

4: Through sickness, death & attrition,
he progressed up through the ranks.
By the age of thirteen, he was Lieutenant Duan.
& he never knew both his brothers
were both soldiers in a tank
that his RPG took out early one gray dawn.
CHORUS:

Copyright © 2006  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
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Written after viewing Lord of War starring Nicholas Cage,
and inspired by photo of child soldiers in Liberia
by Corinne Dufka / Human Rights Watch

These lyrics were quoted in the Masters Thesis
of Artyom Kulagin at Dalarna University in Sweden.

To other real life tragedy song lyrics:   HELL ON WATER
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CAN WE TALK?
HEY, ITS NOT ME
BEHIND THE LINES
THE NUKE'S A HAZARD
BIN LADEN, BIN LADEN
NIGHT OF DYING MOON
ONCE THE DARK WINGS
SADDAMI, SADDAMI, BALONEY
I WANT HIM BACK FROM IRAQ
I'M LOOKING FOR YOUNG MEN
EXPERIMENTS COME, EXPERIMENTS GO
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