歌曲名 The Big Parade

歌手名 10,000 Maniacs

作词：Merchant Natalie

作曲：Jerome Augustyniak

Detroit to D C night train

Capitol parts East

Lone young man takes a seat

And by the rhythm of the rails

reading all his mother's

mail from a city boy

in a jungle town

postmarked Saigon

He'll go live his

mother's dream

join the slowest parade

he'll ever see

Her weight of sorrows

carried long and carried far

Take these Tommy

to The Wall

Metro line to the Mall site

with a tour of Japanese

He's wandering and

lost until a vet in

worn fatigues takes him

down to where they belong

Near a soldier

an ex Marine with a tattooed

dagger and eagle trembling

he bites his lip beside

a widow breaking down

She takes her Purple Heart

makes a fist strikes The Wall

All come to live a dream

to join the slowest parade

they'll ever see

Their weight of sorrows

carried long and carried far

taken to The Wall

It's 40 paces to the year

that he was slain

His hand's slipping down

The Wall for it's slick with rain

How would life have

ever been the same

if this wall had carved in

it one less name

But for Christ's sake

he's been dead over 20 years

He leaves the letters asking

Who caused my mother's tears

was it Washington

or the Viet Cong

Slow deliberate steps

are involved

He takes them away from

the black granite wall

toward the other monuments

so white and clean

O Potomac what you've seen

Abraham had his war too

but an honest war

Or so it's taught in school