The Dawn of Correction Lyrics

Wait until the war is overAnd we're both a little olderThe unknown soldierBreakfast where the news is readTelevision children fedUnborn living, living, deadBullet strikes the helme...Read Full Lyrics

Fathers are pleading, lovers are all aloneMothers are praying--send our sons back homeYou marched them away--yes, you did--on ships and planesTo the senseless war, facing death in ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans At the end of the early British war The young land started growing The young blood started flowing But I ain't marchin' anymore For I've k...Read Full Lyrics

Sailing over to VietnamSoutheast Asian BirminghamWell, training is the word we useNice word to have in case we loseTraining a million VietnameseTo fight for the wrong government an...Read Full Lyrics

Galveston, oh, Galveston,I still hear your seawinds blowing;I still see her dark eyes glowing.She was twenty one, when I left Galveston.Galveston, oh, Galveston,I still hear your s...Read Full Lyrics

A letter came today from my draft boardWith trembling hands I read the questionnaireIt asked me lots of things about my mama and poppaNow that ain't what I call exactly fairSo I'm ...Read Full Lyrics

Sometimes in my bed at nightI curse the dark and a pray for lightAnd sometimes, the light's no consolationBlinded by a memoryAfraid of what it might do to meAnd the tears and the s...Read Full Lyrics

Silent Soldiers on a silver screenFramed in fantasies and dragged in dreamUnpaid actors of the mysteryThe mad director knows that freedom will not make you freeAnd what's this got ...Read Full Lyrics

Vietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about VietnamVietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about VietnamThe law all the days killing me down in Mississippi, nobody seems to give a damnOh God...Read Full Lyrics

I left my heart to the sappers round Khe SanhAnd the soul was sold with my cigarettes to the black market manI've had the Vietnam cold turkeyFrom the ocean to the Silver CityAnd it...Read Full Lyrics