que son valley contractors

 well , the paddies were green and the water was brown

three hooch's and six pigs and they called it a town

Mama san shooting daggers from her eyes

there were 395 days that you could die

might die on an old overgrown trail

walking the point or bringing up the tail

there were water buffalo that would kill you dead

the sun would bake you leave you all red

you thought you were safe flying the skies

till a 50 ripped through your insides

well the days were long and the nights had no end

if you don't believe me .. ask my buddy Glen

A Ranger he was a Ranger he be

still sees the jungle , the forest , the trees

or maybe ask Ryan Hooley

got three purple hearts , got the last one near me

well you know I could go on

but the sky is lightening it'll soon be dawn

one more day since I was born

born in a Valley in the middle of a storm .

He was just 19 when he went to war
never saw nothing like it since or before
Everybody was calling his name
a few were Navy most were Marines
he saved many lost a few
there's only so much that he could do
the one's beyond saving he held their hands
the one's he

saved to this day stand
they stand and salute the man
the one we called " Corpsman

A little hot the past 2 days , up around 90.

But the hottest I've ever been was out in the sands

between Tam Ky and Chu Lai ..

Up around 110 , out in the pure white sand

humping around 40 pounds...

Hell ,the steel pot weighed 3 pounds and

got hot enough to cook your brain

jungle slung the 11 pound M 14

3 canteens

glad I wasn't humping a Prc 25

M60, or mortar

And get this

the only place I ever saw pine trees !

But you know , as bad as it was

at least we weren't fighting in waist deep snow

at 14 degrees like the Korea vets did ...

The unknown inheritance of a war

made of things we felt , we heard , and saw

Mosquito bites and moonless nights

rocket grenades and firefights

Blood , Death , Dreams

all the unwanted things

gathered in our twenties and our teens

Screams .

Fog in the Valley and a leach on my arm

three little kids and an old mama san

they're cooking a lizard on a spit

this damn heat just won't quit

filling canteens from a well

we'll drink it ,but man, it smells

in comes a chopper drops off the c's

ham and mothers for you and turkey loaf for me

Out in the Valley dusk coming on

Out in the Valley they're playing our song

a regular Rhinestone Rapsody

25 miles due west of the South China Sea

George , Hilling ,and me

sit, fingers on the triggers of our M 14's

hearts full of dreams heads full of plans

living our own Custer's Last Stand .

Someday's he just wants it to end

Someday's he wants to live to be 110

Someday's he'd like a beach house in South Carolina

Someday's he's walking a trail in Indochina

Someday's he can still hear

"Corpsman Up" in his left ear

Someday's he thinks he should start drinking again

Someday's he remembers the day he lost a good friend

Someday's it's this , sometimes it's that

Someday's he feels like he's caught in a trap

Someday's , if all the days were lined up in a row ,

he remembers the day he thought he'd never live to be

19 years old .

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