Let My Tears Be Still - Josh Abbott Band

My name is Lieutenant Colonel William Todd

I flew the 101st Airborne in '42

You may think that you’ve met veterans like me before

But you don’t have a clue

I flew Korea in the war you probably forgot

I gave 40 years of damn near all I got

I watched some of my closest friends die on foreign land

I still hear their screams at night

So don’t you wipe away my tears

I’ve earned them through all the years

Just let 'em roll down like a stream upon a hill

Let my tears be still

I met Jean Ann in a photograph in '44

I swore she’d be the girl to take my last name

52 years passed til the Lord took her away

But I still see Jean everyday

At the end of my rope as I lay here in this bed

Thoughts and prayers of my family circle through my head

I pray when the Lord opens up the pearly gates wide

That I’ll see my Jean standing there in the light