Circle On The Cross feat. Kenny Rogers

Daddy got the call sometime in the summer of '69

Did his tour in the war

But the home he was fighting for

Wasn't what he left behind

I was there that day when the telegram came

And mamma fell to her knees

He was a mighty good man but he fell into the hands

Of the North Vietnamese

For every man that gave his life

Another folded stars and stripes

Husbands, fathers, brothers, sons will never be forgotten

When you find what once was lost

Put a circle on the cross

For two years mamma held on said I'm trying to do the best I can

But the Army wasn't paying

And she had a boy to raise

So she found herself another man

I was there that day when the taps was played

And they buried his name in the ground

The preacher was still talking as mamma started walking

And she ain't never turned around

Put a circle on the cross…On the cold black wall

Put a circle on the cross…60,000 gone

I never knew my daddy

But we're the same man after all

Cause it wasn't my reflection

I saw staring back at me from that wall