| The bars are crowded with wasted youth | |
| You just went, you didn't know the truth | |
| You don't know that kid when you look back | |
| You remember the music, paint it black | |
| You had a brother in the movement and he burned his card | |
| He's got a job in the white house, ain't life hard | |
| You came back a hero on a stolen horse | |
| You say you don't fit in, you can't stay the course | |
| I may be right, don't care if i'm wrong | |
| It's a veteran's song | |
| I may be right, don't care if i'm wrong | |
| It's a veteran's song | |
| The band paraded playing 'oh gung ho'' | |
| Your country needs you, you've got to go | |
| When you came over they said 'soldier go back' | |
| When you came home they put you on the rack | |
| Between agent orange and the jungle and fear | |
| You're just surviving to get out of here | |
| You smoke some more herb and you keep your head down | |
| Could be your number is on the next round. | |
| (mccafferty, sweet, charlton, agnew) |