[Verse 1] There's a little red bible On the shelf above my cot Tattered at the edges From the years it's bought My daddy gave it to me On the night before I left Said this thing got me home Once or twice when I bled [Chorus] Little red bible On a shelf in a tent Little red bible Carrying everything he meant He didn't say much And he didn't have to Little red bible Got me through [Verse 2] Thirty boys in a tent Sheets rigged up like walls Sweat puddle on a cot And the generators fall I read it in the morning When the heat hadn't broke And I thought about my daddy And the words he never spoke [Chorus] Little red bible On a shelf in a tent Little red bible Carrying everything he meant He didn't say much And he didn't have to Little red bible Got me through [Bridge] His daddy carried one Across the European mud And my daddy carried one Through the jungle and the blood And now I'm carrying one In a desert nobody chose Three generations of boys And the same little book goes [Final Chorus] Little red bible On a shelf in a tent Little red bible Carrying everything he meant He didn't say much And he didn't have to Little red bible Got me through [Outro] Little red bible Little red bible Little red bible Got me through
