Long Way Home Lyrics - Cross Canadian Ragweed

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