Galveston Bay   For 15 years le bin sonfought side by side with the americans   In the mountains and deltas   Of vietnamin ’75 saigon fell and he left his command   And brought his family to the promised land   Seabrook, texas and the small towns in the gulf of mexico   It was delta country and reminded him of home   He worked as a machinist, put his money away   And bought a shrimp boat with his cousin   And together they harvested galveston bay   In the mornin’ ’fore the sun come up   He’d kiss his sleepin’ daughter   Steer out thru thechannel   And cast his nets into the water   Billy sutter fought with charlie company   In the highlands of quang tri   He was wounded in the battle of chu lai   Shipped home in ’68   There he married and worked the gulf fishing grounds   In a boat that’d been his father’s   In the morning he’d kiss his sleeping son   And cast his nets into the water   Billy sat in front of his tv as the south fell   And the communists rolled into saigon   He and his friends watched as the refugees came   Settled on the same streets and worked the coast they’d grew up on   Soon in the bars around the harbor was talk   Of america for the americans   Someone said ’you want ’em out, you got to burn ’em out.’   And brought in the texas klan   One humid texas night there were 3 shadows on the harbor   Come to burn the vietnamese into the sea   In the fire’s light shots rang out   2 texans lay dead on the ground   Le stood with a pistol in his hand   A jury acquitted him in self-defense   As before the judge he did stand   But as le walked down the courthouse steps   Billy said ’my friend you’re a dead man.’   One late summer night le stood watch along the waterside   Billy stood in the shadows   His k-bar knife in his hand   And the moon slipped behind the clouds   Le lit a cigarette, the bay was still as glass   As he walked by billy stuck his knife into his pocket   Took a breath and let him pass   In the early darkness billy rose up   Went into the kitchen for a drink of water   Kissed his sleeping wife   Headed into the channel   And cast his nets into the water   Of galveston bay