"Christmas In Fallujah"
Words & Music By Billy Joel
Preformed By Cass Dillon
2007
Words & Music By Billy Joel
Preformed By Cass Dillon
2007
It's Evening In the Desert
I'm Tired and I'm cold
But I'm just a solder
I do what I am told
I'm Tired and I'm cold
But I'm just a solder
I do what I am told
We Came with the Crusaders
to save the holy land
It's Christmas In Fallujah
and no one gives a damn
And I just got your letter
And this is what I read you said
I'm fading from your memory
so I'm just as good as dead
We are the armies of the empire
We are the legionnaires of Rome
It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home
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to save the holy land
It's Christmas In Fallujah
and no one gives a damn
And I just got your letter
And this is what I read you said
I'm fading from your memory
so I'm just as good as dead
We are the armies of the empire
We are the legionnaires of Rome
It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home
<...>
Source
Seems like Jefferson Pepper beat Billy to the "auntie-war punch?" "Crusaders?" Nice touch, Billy!
OBTW,
\'Christmas in Fallujah\', the debut album from Jefferson Pepper explores the darker side of the American social and political landscape with songs that are both profound and undeniably catchy. Stories are told from the vantage points of, among others, a disillusioned soldier stationed in Iraq (Christmas in Fallujah), ...
