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
It`s a long way home