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Thirty Miles To Richmond

from FACT AND FICTION by Mike Birch

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Thirty Miles To Richmond

Papa shook my hand as we waited for the bus
Mama was crying, making her usual fuss
My sisters were smiling, their eyes glistening with tears
I climbed aboard the bus, then watched Richmond disappear

Camp was tough as everyone had warned
You have to work hard to earn a uniform
Sarge built a team from a bunch of innocent kids
Taught us to stay alive no matter what we did

Thirty miles to Richmond
This journey will finally end
Thirty miles to Richmond
I’ll soon be home again

Soon we were sent off to an unknown land
To fight in a war we didn’t understand
Surrounded by my friends, it was the usual tale
We were from the land of freedom, we could never fail

Tommy was my buddy
He was like a brother to me
Could do the work of ten
Thought we’d make history
But a bullet cut him down
No mercy from the enemy
As I wept over him
They did the same to me

Thirty miles to Richmond
This journey will finally end
Thirty miles to Richmond
I’ll soon be home again

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from FACT AND FICTION, released December 10, 2016

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Mike Birch Methuen, Massachusetts

For Mike, it all started on a Sunday night in 1964 ... February 9 ... the Beatles took the stage on the Ed Sullivan show and while the girls in the audience screamed, his parents and grandparents exclaimed about the "long hairs", a 7-year-old boy thought, 'I'm going to learn to play the guitar one day!' ... more

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