Too scared to go to proud to run Here's your orders boy here's your gun We're sending you off to Vietnam Try to stay cool try to stay calm
Never seen nothin' but that Mid-Texas dirt Never been on a flying machine Your job now is to take this gun And kill everything that you see
It's a long way home
Orange in the air Fire on the ground Them back up boys ain't no where around There's smoke in the sky You're screamin' to the sea Oh God have mercy on me
It's a long way home
Got that medal on your chest Now you got it made But you're going back to a land of protest And an empty hero's parade
Waking up in the dead of night Screaming out your lungs Jungle fires and trip bomb wires And blazin' red turret guns