Story Behind The Song

The lyrics were written in 1991 and they still ring true today.

Song Description

A song how one more soldier dying is too many when one more is your Dad.

Lyrics

One More

The soldier was a hero
There beneath the flag
I was just a little girl
Too young to understand

I remember when he left
He came to say good-bye
And knelt down on one knee
To try to tell me why

It wouldn't hurt so much
If one more soldier dying
Would have saved the world
And stopped the children crying
But as the years go by
The world is still mad
One more is too many
When one more is your Dad

I can't erase the memory
Two soldiers at our door
Or forget my Mother crying there
Sitting on the floor

I listened to the preacher
Say bow your heads and pray
But when I closed my eyes
I didn't know what to say

It wouldn't hurt so much
If one more soldier dying
Would have saved the world
And stopped the children crying
But as the years go by
The world is still mad
One more is too many
When one more is your Dad

Every day that he was gone
He wrote and sent a letter
I read them now and then
For a moment we're together

It wouldn't hurt so much
If one more soldier dying
Would have saved the world
And stopped the children crying
But as the years go by
The world is still mad
One more is too many
When one more is your Dad

When one more is your Dad

Copyright 2010 by Jeana Potthoff and Richard Roman