Every 18 months or so
It's like tonic for the soul
To sit and have a beer somewhere
With all the boys that are over there
Nobody's wearing army greens
We're all 22nd Infantry
We're the names not etched up on that
wall We all gave some but some gave all
We're still fighting the battles Even
though there ain't no rifles in our hands
Those memories are bright as a candle Like
those traces in a place called Vietnam
Nobody cares about that war That's what I've got my brothers for
To help me to remember and forget All the stories,
all the scars
How we soldiered just as hard How the blood we shed was just as red
We feel guilty for the ones we've lost
Coming back alive has had its cost
Everybody's got their cross to bear It here,
be it there
It's still around us everywhere We're still fighting the battles
Even though there ain't no rifles in our hands Those memories
are bright as a candle Like those traces in a place called
Vietnam Nobody cares about that war That's what I've got my
brothers for To help me to remember and forget All the stories,
all the scars How we soldiered just as hard
How the blood we shed was just as red As the fields we
left and the thoughts we dread Running through our heads
We're still fighting the battles Even
though there ain't no rifles in our hands
Those memories are bright as a candle Like
those traces in a place called Vietnam
Nobody cares about that war That's what I've got my brothers for
To help me to remember and forget
All
the stories,
all the scars How we soldiered just as hard
How the blood we shed was just as red
Just as red
We can't forget Don't forget
It's just as red