Private Wilson White

Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White On a battlefield one day in a land so far away Mid the rattle of machine guns in the dawn's first golden light Twenty men lay close to death, nineteen of them held their breath While one volunteered to save them, volunteered to give his life Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White Nineteen lives he meant to save, not one backward glance he gave As he yelled, for God and country, through an open field he ran But the enemy had seen and they understood his scheme And the fire from their machine guns knocked the rifle from his hands Private Wilson White, America is proud tonight Proud to claim you for their hero, Private White