May Billy Joel. It was one of the songs included on his album that year named The Nylon Curtain. It portrays the condition and situation of the U. Marines starting with their military training and into their diverse traits of Vietnam combat. To note, the song was a chart-topper overseas.
It placed no. Also, it ranked no. However, it fared low in the U. During the Vietnam War , the American troops were treated badly. Language: English. Watch Video. Primitive AWS. War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.
It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat. We met as soul mates On Parris Island We left as inmates From an asylum And we were sharp As sharp as knives And we were so gung ho To lay down our lives We came in spastic Like tameless horses We left in plastic As numbered corpses And we learned fast To travel light Our arms were heavy But our bellies were tight We had no home front We had no soft soap They sent us Playboy They gave us Bob Hope We dug in deep And shot on sight And prayed to Jesus Christ With all our might We had no cameras To shoot the landscape We passed the hash pipe And played our Doors tapes And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Remember Charlie Remember Baker They left their childhood On every acre And who was wrong?
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