A Fiddle With A Broken String
from Journey Home by Tom Smith
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According to US Defense Department Statistics, one in four Americans returning home from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are living with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
lyrics
A Fiddle with a Broken String
by Tom Smith & Jud Caswell, TomSmithMusic.com
I drop my pack at last command
And lay my soul upon the sand
I hear the guns at end of day
And from the mosque a call to pray
Their music is both right and wrong
When God and Satan play one song
Each pulls his bow to scratch and sting
A fiddle with a broken string
I lie awake at home in bed
I (still) fight that war within my head
Something I can’t understand
Makes me feel I’m half a man
I lost my wife. I lost my health.
I try in vain to heal myself
With alcohol and nicotine
A fiddle with a broken string
I love this country, served with pride
As did my comrades by my side
Though some are dead would they agree
They are better off than me?
Who called the shots? Who wrote the score?
We were their instruments of war
Now songs of peace we can not sing
Like fiddles with a broken string
by Tom Smith & Jud Caswell, TomSmithMusic.com
I drop my pack at last command
And lay my soul upon the sand
I hear the guns at end of day
And from the mosque a call to pray
Their music is both right and wrong
When God and Satan play one song
Each pulls his bow to scratch and sting
A fiddle with a broken string
I lie awake at home in bed
I (still) fight that war within my head
Something I can’t understand
Makes me feel I’m half a man
I lost my wife. I lost my health.
I try in vain to heal myself
With alcohol and nicotine
A fiddle with a broken string
I love this country, served with pride
As did my comrades by my side
Though some are dead would they agree
They are better off than me?
Who called the shots? Who wrote the score?
We were their instruments of war
Now songs of peace we can not sing
Like fiddles with a broken string
credits
from Journey Home,
released November 6, 2011
by Tom Smith & Jud Caswell (Alderdown Music, ASCAP)
(c) 2009, 2011 Peabody Hill Publishing (ASCAP)
Tom Smith: vocals
Joyce Andersen: fiddle
Seth Connelly: guitar, bass
by Tom Smith & Jud Caswell (Alderdown Music, ASCAP)
(c) 2009, 2011 Peabody Hill Publishing (ASCAP)
Tom Smith: vocals
Joyce Andersen: fiddle
Seth Connelly: guitar, bass
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Tom Smith Boston, Massachusetts
“Folk music is still a living tradition that feeds on new songs that speak of people’s wants, needs, struggles and triumphs. Tom Smith is a man who writes songs that seem like they’ve always been there. There are very few songwriters working today that I would call folksingers, but I would call Tom Smith a true folksinger.” – Dave Palmeter, WUMB-FM Boston ... more
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