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Bill Anderson Lyrics for Song: I Am
 Lyrics for Album: My Life/But You Know I Love You [Decca] [1969]
 
 
 
 632>(Carter Howard)
 
 
 
 I am a soldier I'm a slave of power
 
 Power so great that it can destroy
 
 God's world with one mighty blast
 
 I'm a machine, a computer an engine
 
 Programed to reap destruction wherever I go
 
 I'm a bad risk for my credit is only backed
 
 Up by the United States Government
 
 My reputation is that of a braggard
 
 A sex fiend, a cheat and rusted hero
 
 I'm a killer paid and trained
 
 To hit first before being hit and I do
 
 I'm a soldier so who cares how dirty the job is
 
 If it has to be done then it's done
 
 Right but I'm also a human being
 
 I am myself good or bad
 
 I smell the flowers in the spring
 
 I hear the birds sing in the early morning
 
 I feel the warmth of a fire in the winter
 
 And I feel the rain as it moistens my brow
 
 I'm a part of family with God as my father
 
 And me the obediest child
 
 I have wants and needs and I have the strenght
 
 And the faith to fullfill them
 
 And I have passion, the kind of passion
 
 That brings forth a love so great
 
 That no war, no tragedy
 
 Or no other being could ever destroy
 
 I'm a human being and I feel
 
 I feel the things all around me
 
 And I'm grateful, I'm so very grateful
 
 I'm also an American and I'm proud
 
 I'm proud because I have the right
 
 To worship God as my Master
 
 The right to love a wife, children, mother and father
 
 Without the fear of political reprisal
 
 My country gives me the right to build, to destroy
 
 And to rebuild to better proportisions
 
 I am an American, I have the right
 
 To listen to the Star Spangled Banner
 
 The right to feel a chill throughout my entire body
 
 When I look at the flag, our flag
 
 I have the right to defend
 
 To honor, to pay tribute
 
 To the great ones who've come
 
 And gone before, why
 
 Because I'm an American
 
 And because I'm an American I can also cry
 
 I can cry for my lost brother
 
 Who died defending our way of life
 
 I am an American and I'm proud
 
 Proud because I am...
 
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| Album Lyrics: My Life/But You Know I Love You [Decca] [1969] |  
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  Bill Anderson
 "My Life/But You Know I Love You [Decca] [1969]"
 
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