Bud Spared By Minutes

My Dad in WWII in France and his Tank was hit by an armor piercing rocket, and only 5 minutes before he had been the gunner up top. When it blew the young man replacing him was blown out into tracks

He gave his Life for Me

He gave it all that I might be Freed

He gave his Life for Me

Before I was ever even a Dream

Years before I would ever See

He gave his Life that he might Live

He did not know it as he Moved

Did not know he was positioning to Give

As he climbed up through that little Hole

Well you see that is where it touches my Soul

My Daddy told me when I was a Boy

That he had rolled in a great big Tank

Across green fields over grapes and Grain

And that it was only Love that kept him Sain

Over the hills and Vales of France

He gave his Life for Me

He gave it all that I might be Freed

He gave his Life for Me

Before I was ever even a Dream

Years before I would ever See

You see they turned to fire on a Destroyer

And they didn't see the one in the Trees

He took his aim and his rocket burned on Through

And it was from there that it all got Fuzzy

But they told him the man that had crawled up to relieve Him

He was thrown out and caught in the Treads

I felt him near me just Today

As this story came back to Me

I could almost see him crawling up behind the Gun

I could almost feel him as he braste after the Boom

I can almost see his Eyes, clear and Strong

I could almost hear him, I'm glad young One

I could almost feel his Heart as it Beat

I could almost touch the ripple in his Collar

I could almost see him as he turned to go On

I could almost, I could almost

He gave his Life for Me

He gave it all that I might be Freed

He gave his Life for Me

Before I was ever even a Dream

Years before I would ever See