John Prine – Sam Stone

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1. ”Sam Stone came home,
   To his wife and family
   After serving in the conflict overseas.
   And in the time that he had served,
   It had shattered all his nerves,
   And it left a little shrapnel in his knee.
   Oh, but the morphine eased the pain,
   And the grass grew round his brain,
   And it gave him all the comfort as he lacked,
   With a purple heart and a monkey on his back.

   There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes,
   Jesus Christ died for nothin’ I suppose.
   Little pitchers have big ears,
   But don’t you stop to count the years,
   Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
   Mmm….

   Sam Stone’s welcome home
   Didn’t last too long.
   No he went to work after he spent his last dime
   And Sammy took to stealing
   When he get’ that empty feeling
   For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
   And the cold rolled through his veins
   Like a thousand railroad trains,
   And it eased his mind in the hours that it shows,
   While his kids ran around wearin’ other peoples’ clothes…

   Sam Stone was alone
   When he broke his gas balloon
   Climbing walls while he sat there in a chair
   Well, he played his last request
   While the room stonk just like death
   With an overdose just hoverin’ in the air
   But life had lost it’s fun
   And there was nothing to be done
   But to trade his house that he bought on the GI-bill
   For what, a flag draped casket on a local heroes’ hill ”

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