Well an old man said to me
In a voice filled with pain
Where you goin' young man
Said I'm goin' to fight a war
Gonna fight for my country
In some foreign land
He said the sun
will never hurt you
Never harmed anyone
But you must realize
If you try to stare her down
She will win in the end
She will burn your eyes
She will burn them
Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Well I wonder who will
walk with me
When I get to Heaven
He said boy I was young once
Yeah I was tough
Sailin' on Uncle Sam's boat
Yeah I could kill the enemy
I could die on foreign streets
But I could not vote
Oh now you walk by me
You won't talk to me
Say this is my fate
But every time you walk
the streets boy
Most of them you meet
You see it's you they hate
It's you yeah
Seen a million faces
Seen a million places die
Well I wonder who will
walk with me
When I get to Heaven
I hope I get there
Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Well I wonder who will
walk with me
When I get there
See this woman sittin'
next to me
She's been there
for a long long time
Oh when I fell
She picked me up
And when I cried
She wiped my tears
I thank God she's mine
Yeah when I leave this world
She won't have anything
But her love for me yeah
'Cause the man took
everything else
Made me hate myself
So just let her be boy
Won't you let her be yeah
Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Seen a million mothers cry
Seen a million brothers die
Well I wonder who will
walk with me
When I get there
When I get to Heaven
I wanna get there
When I get to Heaven