The story of a young man's first day in combat all the way through 44 years of trying to maintain.....
Drums- Mark Campbell
Lead Guitar- Kenneth Daigle
Bass- Wild Bill Harper
Vocals and acoustic guitar- Papa Joe DeMaio
|
This is Papa Joe's story.... from his first day in Viet Nam right up to today.....
|
As I look at this sea of faces
My mind dances off to other places
A time gone by now many years
A place where I thought I left all my fears
The smell of Death was thick in the air
I didn't matter.... Death didn't care
As I lay there prone on the ground
My mind was bursting as I slithered around
My body moved all on it's own
Seemed like I had lost all control.....
Will I live to tell of this day?
Could it go any other way?
Seems like it was already planned
I would live to be a lucky, lucky man.
I was trembling, couldn't catch my breath
My mind was numb, I could not digest
All this information flooding in
The ground was shaking, and just about then
Bullets sliced all through the air
Rockets and mortars landed everywhere
As I looked around I could tell
This would be a year of living HELL !
"Some came home limbless, with nothing left to give
Other's wounds left their minds like sieves
Some of us came home, NOT at all....
Human greed was the cause of it all !"
Will I live to tell of this day?
Could it go any other way?
Seems like it was already planned
I would live to be a lucky, lucky man.
I came home from that war in one piece
But so full of scars that just can't be seen
In my heart the truth to THEIR lies
Even now with all this time gone by...
A sight, a sound, a smell can make me cry.
Forty-four years have come and gone
and every single day I try to carry on
But over and over this requiem
Here we go it's starting again...
Bloody faces in my dreams;
Seems that they're
always taunting me....
YOU made it HOME.... NOW you're free !
Will I live to tell of this day
Could it go any other way
Seems like it was already planned
I would live to be a lucky. lucky man......
L U C K Y .... lucky, lucky man.....
L U C K Y ..... lucky. lucky man.....
You made it home.... Now you're FREE !!!
x |
|
 |
|