American Tragedy

American Tragedy


We had little girls in Blacksburg
Their brothers in Columbine
Sisters in the Amish school
Their spirits all divine
Our uncles fell in Austin
Near the Austin Tower Bell
Our mother – Oklahoma
In the building as it fell
We lost cousins in the jungle
When the Tet Offense came down
Our grandpa in Korea
His body never found
His father fought the Germans
Till he could fight no more
His daddy fought the Kaiser
In the war to end all war
We had family at Vicksburg
Gettysburg and Lexington
They were Yankees – they were rebels
They all fell by the gun

We’re foreign born or native son
We’re Americans right now
We’ve lived through this and what’s to come
We will muddle through somehow

Mdailey
10/04/07