Show I Come Back Clean The following ing IJ poems ems printed in the San Juan Record were sent in by br Le Levi Levi vi viF J Peterson formerly of Ephraim now DOW with the Marines at Quantico Va VaC This s is the sung song of the soldier T rOo sing To-sing ing ingas as as he rides' rides from h home me To Tp tm the ti fields afar a where the batt battles es are p H i Or Ur rover the oceans ocean's foam loam Whatever ha the danger cr awa awaiting ing In the lands I have tot nOD seen seen e ri It U 1 i t pp N f not if I r com come hack back at atall all TheIl Then I will come back clean cean I may map life lie in an n. n mud of the t tr trenches I anay reek rcck with blood and mire b bt t t I will wall control b by the thc God in my soul soui iThe l i The might o or my mans man's desire I IU j ight ht my foe oa in tic open But sword be and d py my shad sharp a keen c For the foe within who vh would would lead I cad to sin ThuS I or come come back hack cl clean an I Imay may ma jv t leave f for r my tny children hildren Brave medals that I have won But the blood in in liny imy inv veins shall hall leave stains staw r rOn D no On brides or tin on n. n babes unborn And the scars sears That my od ay carry I I. I l t Shall tot not be from deeds anscer ct c For my vi vill I shall l say say to the beast J j obey T Tea I will come back cle clean n. n oh Oh not knot not on the fields of f slaughter laughl i And not DOt in do the prison cell Or in hunger hung r and cold wId is is' is the storY By of its Us darkest hell But the f o ot oiS cr old sin of the Can tell Itell that wo word d that may maymea mean j Jo Ta o the soldiers soldier's wives and to i o cent Jives lives AIr Al J I will v I come conic back cleah clean |