Touchdown as a boy in Vietnam
Didn't take too long to become a man when
I tried to heal the hurt and scare
I wasn't wearing one but that was my cross to bear
They always moaned it on their way
Out in the jungle just another day for me
Never knew how many I could save But I
would try to keep them from the grave
When soldiers become fathers When they get to come back home
Then their sons and their daughters Can grow up and have their own
Oh you won't see me in their family tree
There ain't a branch for me reserved
But I was mending roots in combat boots
To help them rise up from the earth
While I was working in the dirt
Never knew I couldn't save them all
I couldn't help but feel that it was all my
fault But there's a forest growing higher
And it's all because some seeds survive the fire
When soldiers become fathers When they get to come back home
Then their sons and their daughters Can grow up and have their own
Oh you won't see me
in their family tree There ain't a branch for me reserved
But I was mending roots in combat boots
To help them rise up from the earth
While I was working in the dirt
Soldiers become fathers When they get to come back home
And then their sons and their daughters
Can grow up and have their own
Oh you won't see
me in their family tree There ain't a branch for me reserved
But I was mending
roots in combat
boots To help them rise up from the earth
While I was working in the dirt
While I was working in the dirt