A little boy walks a lantern lit street   With a heartache in his eye   He says if you buy a lucky coin    It's good for you and me   This young boy, he was covered in the dirty life      All his friends, they jump on top of me   And they ask, did I ride a kangaroo to school   I said who told you that you silly boys   They said it was one of them Yankee fools   They need a little food    And they need a little money   While I just want to be back home    With my honey   For I ain't seen her in so long   I can barely write this song      My heart is aching not for money like them   But for my darling back home   How I been missing   To my hotel I walk   A stumbling man   Homesick in Hoi   An       A ladyboy walks the dark promenade    She asks do you need cocaine, do you want to get laid    And in the distance drunken Poms   Are singing merry tunes   In the alley an old man sucks upon the hard life fumes   He needs a little food    And he needs a little money   While I just want to be back home      With my honey   For I ain't seen her in so long   I can barely sing this song      My heart is aching not for money like them   But for my darling back home   How I been missing   To my hotel I trip   And hit my head with a bang   Drunk and disorderly in Nha Trang      There's two dogs fornicating    In the main street of town   Like street clowns putting on a show   For the crowd that surrounds   A little girl chokes upon the smoke   That fills this Saigon sky   She puts out her hand   And preys to her lord   Says don't let me die   So I give her some food   And 50,000 dong   But nothing compensates    For a world that's done you wrong   She was born into a life where    A silent war rages on