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Summer Side of Life

by Gordon Lightfoot (1971) [re: a young man who'd been drafted to fight in the Vietnam War]


    He came down through fields of green
    On the summer side of life
    His love was ripe
    There were no illusions
    On the summer side of life
    Only tenderness

    And if you saw him now
    You'd wonder why
    He would cry
    The whole day long

    There were young girls everywhere
    On the summer side of life
    They talked all night
    To the young men that they knew
    On the summer side of life
    Goin' off to fight

    And if you saw them now
    You'd wonder why
    They would cry
    The whole day long

    He came down through fields of green
    On the summer side of life
    He prayed all night
    Then he walked into a house
    Where love had been misplaced
    His chance to waste

    And if you saw him now
    You'd wonder why
    He would cry
    The whole day long

    And if you saw him now
    You'd wonder why

    And if you saw him now
    You'd wonder why

    And if you saw him now
    You'd wonder why




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