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Addie Brownlee: Music

Robert Bruce

(Addie Brownlee)
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Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce
We always loved you

He grew up back when we were Christians
When we were all worse for being worn
He didn't have much to say unless you asked him
As silent as the night he was born

He married Walter Willis' daughter
She said I'll warm you like the sun
He'd sing her a tune some nights after supper
If there wasn't more work to be done

Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce
We always loved you

There are few dreamers in the wheat fields
Cause it's a different god rules the plains
And he can be cruel and cold as the wind through the wind mills
And he rarely sends the rains

But have you walked the Kansas prairie
Watched the birth of a sunrise
And can you tell me is it all that important that we see things clearly
They're changing right before our eyes

Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce
We always loved you

When they told you to turn your plow share
In for a sword
Did you ask your brother
What he knew of war
Did you wonder aloud to any of the others
What the hell are we fighting for
Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce
We always loved you

He said lately I've been thinking twice
About this life we've all been given
And I wonder if a little schooling would have been nice
Then he went outside to escape all the women

Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce
We always loved you