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Artist: Steve Earle
Canonical path: /steve-earle/mercenary-song
Related lyric paths: 6
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Mercenary Song
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Mercenary Song
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Me and Bill there we both come from Georgia
Met Hank out in New Mexico
We're bound for Duranqo to join Pancho Villa
We hear that he's payin' in gold
I guess a man's got to do what he's best at
Ain't found nothin' better so far
Been called mercenaries and men with no country
Just soldiers in search of a war
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And we're bound for the border
We're soldiers of fortune
And we'll fight for no country but we'll die for good pay
Under the flag of of the greenback dollar
Or the peso down Mexico way
When this war is over might go back to Georgia
And settle down quiet some where
I'll most likely pack up and head south for Chile
Heard tell there's some trouble down there
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Steve Earle performs "Mercenary Song", and this lyric page sits inside the Steve Earle catalog on LyroVerse.
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