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