Was this the day we landed on the moon?

Was this the day, Apollo landed on the moon?

Or was Jimmy Hendrix, at Woodstock on stage soon?

Civil unrest all around, the world is Topsy turvy.

The war had escalated, they took more of our brothers .

Our older brothers, were off fighting the Viet Cong

rifles going, rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat

People saying we didnt belong, but they fought right up

til the fall of Saigon.

Mortar tracers lighting the sky, an eirie, stinking little place to die.

In the distance the ordinance boomed,

from our planes, those folks are doomed

Its 2am the rockets have stopped, counting our dead, it never ended.

Wonder if we made it to the moon,

or was that next month, I will be home soon,

345 days in country, less than 20 to go,

this is when you die over here.