Man, the M-14’s were heavy there,
metal helmets and full gear
not the only burdens on our backs
in those forced marches at 5000 feet
heading for the Nam
Draft dodgers, yes, fools no,
national guardsmen and reservists,
none of us threw in for a stupid war,
to live like animals in the mud
or take hits from divorce decrees
filed by itchy wives who found
three years too long to wait
Lyndon Johnson used us too
for holding down the draft,
and who would know or who would care
if we had it right first time around
about the lie, sick joke and scam
they called the domino effect
No shit, our gig was up and soon
the world would know
what we knew then in useless marches
up and down hot dusty hills
ten miles a day or more
for no good reason but to hide
that we were, we were, dead on