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Someone to Love
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Written as a tribute to a great-uncle of mine who left his young family to fight in WW2 and never came home
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Kathy Hudson
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Kathy Hudson 2004
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October 16, 2005
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MP3 3.7 MB, 128 kbps, 4:01
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This is based on the true story of my great-uncle.Home Ackelson, who at the age of 21, lost his life , somewhere over Germany in 1943, his train did pass though his hometown where his young wife, and son lived, and he never made it home again. MyGrandmother told me the story of her baby brother, who she helped raise and loved dearly,shortly before she left this world , this song is dedicated to her, Ada White, and her brother Homer Ackelson, I know somewhere they are listening...
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SOMEONE TO LOVE the young man ridin'on the troop train looked out into the rain christmas would be here very soon, he'd be so faraway he'd got his notice, the time had come, he was going overseas he was 21, with a wife and son, in 1943 the train rolled by little towns, he saw houses all aglow christmas trees in windows, sparklin' diamonds, spun with gold up ahead he knew they'd be passin' through the town that held his love from the tracks he could see his home so dear, in the trees on the hills above he said chorus it I don't make it home, send them someone to love make it him strong , make him wise, make him love my only son if I don't make it home, send them someone to love V2 the train slowed down to a stop, to gather more supplies he said, sarge let me run home one more time, for one more sweet goodbye wish I could son, you know you can't, you'll be shipping out tonight, we got miles to go, we're behind, son there won't be time turned around to sit back down, wiped a tear from his eyes said, Lord I'm scared, I realize, I might come home alive I've tried to live a life that's good, I'm not afraid to die, I just love that girl and need to know, you'll be there when she cries chorus bridge his last letter come two days after,the chaplain broke the news he wrote, it's getting rough,I've seen enough of the evil men can do before I sleep I pray for peace, and that what we're doing's right then I close my eyes and in my dreams you'r in my arms each night chorus (and) he was 21, with a wife and son, in 1943... Dedicated to the true story and memory of my great-uncle Homer Ackelson 1922-1943 shot down over Germany in WW2
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