Joined the service out of school in the year of '69  When the Doors were ridin' on the storm, Hendrix was alive  And before I could blink an eye, I was sent to Vietnam  To teach them people democracy  Jesus, what a laugh.    All across the highlands, we moved in single file  Lookin' for them Vietcong, I musta crawled a 1000 miles  But I'd only one thought on me mind,  'Twas your eyes of emerald green  My love is in New York, oh she's the only one for me    I learned to smoke the opium pipe, I learned it all too well  Coz when the shells are bangin' in your ears  It stops that livin' hell  Then one night 6 months later  While in the DMZ  Me own dear U.S. Air Force blew the hell right out of me    Still I loved my country   I saluted the old flag  When you're a boy from Woodside, Queens  You give it all you have  'Cause I knew you'd be there waitin'   With your eyes of emerald green  My love is in New York and she's the only one for me    But when I got sent home at last, they jeered and spat at me  They called me a fascist, said I was the enemy  I could've put up with all of that  'Twas no big thing to me  But you killed me with one look of disgust  From those emerald greens    Now I sit down here on Broadway, this pavement is me home  The war is long forgotten, for those who stayed at home  And I wish I had me opium pipe   To stop that livin' hell  That's goin' on inside me head, I wish it all so well  And the Doors still ride by on the storm  Hendrix hides from Joe  I should be history around here but where else is there to go  Coz I know you're out there somewhere,  With your eyes of emerald green  My love is in New York, oh she's the only one for me