[Gm]I don't know why I'm over here this job is evil
[Gm]They send me there to Vietnam to kill innocent people
[Gm]My mother wrote me said the President he doesn't care
[Gm]We trying to leave the footprints of America here
[Gm]They say we're trying to stop Chinese expansion
[Gm]But I ain't seen no Chinese since we landed
[Gm]Sent my whole entire unit thinking we can win
[Gm]Against the Viet Cong guerillas there in Gia Dinh
[Gm]I didn't sign up to kill women or any children
[Gm]For every enemy soldier, we killing six civilians
[Gm]Yeah, and that ain't right to me
I ain't [Gm]got enough of mother fuckin' fight in me
It frightens [Gm]me and I just want to see my son and moms
[Gm]But over here they dropping seven million tons of bombs
[Gm]I spend my days dodging all these booby traps and mines
[Gm]And at night, praying to God that I get back alive
[Gm]...And I'm forced to sit back and wonder
[Gm]Why I was a part of 'Operation Rolling Thunder'
[Gm]In a fox hole with nine months left here
[Gm]Jungle like the fuckin' harbinger of death here
[Gm]I don't want to be here. I'm scared, I just want to go home.
[Gm]You fucking kidding me? Don't be a pussy. Don't you love your country?
[Gm]I like being here. I'm ready. True story...
Call me [Gm]Thorburn, John A. Staff Sergeant, Marksman
Skil[Gm]ling, killing, illing I'm able and willing
[Gm]Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage your village
[Gm]Illegitimate killers, US Military guerillas
This ain't a [Gm]real war, Vietnam shit
World War II, that's a [Gm]war, this is just a military conflict
Soothing, [Gm]drug-abusing, Vietnamese women screwing
[Gm]Sex, scampling and booze, and all the shit is amusing
Bitches and [Gm]guns, this is every man's dream
I don't want to go [Gm]home, where I'm just a ordinary human being
Special [Gm]OP, Huey chopper gun shit, run shit
Gook [Gm]run when the mini-gun spit, won't miss, kill shit
[Gm]Spit four-thousand bullets a minute Victor-Charlie, hit trigger, hit it
[Gm]I'm in it to win it, get it The lieutenant hinted the villain, I've ended up killing
I [Gm]did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it
A [Gm]wizard with weapons, a secret mission we about to begin it
[Gm]Government funded, behind enemy lines bullets is spraying
It's [Gm]heating up, a hundred degrees The enemy's the North Vietnamese, bitch please
Ain't no [Gm]sweat, I'm told "be at ease"
Until I [Gm]see the pilot got hit, and we about to hit some trees
Till the [Gm]rotor broke, crash land, American man
[Gm]Cambodia, right in the enemy hand
Take a [Gm]swig of the whiskey to calm us
Them yellow men[Gm] wearing black pajamas They want to harm us They all up on us
Bang, [Gm]bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain
To my [Gm]left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain
Body [Gm]parts flying, loss of limbs, explosions
Bad in[Gm]tentions, I see my best friend's intestines
Pray to the [Gm]one above, It's raining and I'm covered in mud
I think I'm [Gm]dying, I feel dizzy, I'm losing blood
I see my [Gm]childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother
I see my [Gm]whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights
I see [Gm]Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights
[Gm]Blacks, Whites, Asians, people of all types
I must have [Gm]died, then I woke up, suprised I'm alive
I'm in a [Gm]hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived
I es[Gm]caped the war, came back
But ain't escape Agent [Gm]Orange, two of my kids born handicapped
[Gm]Spastic, quadriplegic, micro cephalic
Cerebral [Gm]palsy, cortical blindness, name it they had it
My [Gm]son died he ain't live, but I still try to think positive
[Gm]Cause in life, God take, God give