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T:Hey Sandy
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C:Harvey Andrews
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W:Hey Sandy, hey Sandy why were you the one?
W:All the years of growing up are wasted now and gone.
W:Did you see them turn, did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
W:Hey Sandy, hey Sandy just what did you do?
W:Hey Sandy, hey Sandy just what did you do?
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W:Well the sun was hot and the air was heavy as the marching men came by
W:And you ran to the door and you watched then pass and you asked the soldiers "Why?"
W:The sound of the steel and the black boot's heel were pounding in your head
W:And your freedom's past, they have come at last, with the blessings of the dead.
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W:In the college square they were standing there with flag and with the gun
W:And the whispered word as the young ones stirred was "Now at last they've come"
W:And the air was still with the lonely thrill of now the hour is near
W:And the smell of sweat was better yet than the awful stench of fear.
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W:Through the air the shout as you all ran out was "Why are these things done?"
W:And you stood and you stared but no one cared for another campus bum
W:And your songs were dead and the hymns instead were to the burning pyre
W:And the words of youth, like love and truth, just ashes in the fire.
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W:Did you throw the stone at the men alone with their bayonets fixed for hire?
W:Did you doubt that they would, say no one could, did you scream when they opened fire?
W:As the square ran red and your bloodstain spread and the darkness round you grew
W:Through the fear and the pain did you call the name of the man you never knew?
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Further Information About Hey Sandy
Song Notes
Andrews' song is about Sandy Scheuer, a student at Kent State University, who was shot dead by the US National Guard during a protest on May 4, 1970.