American youth in Asia
I hear your jungle boots
Moving in the elephant grass
And the bamboo shoots
What a chilling mercy killing
Yours is gonna be
American youth in Asia
A generation put to sleep
Ask the old men on the draft boards
Why their sons aren’t here too
And tell Mama instead of piano
Wish I’d studied Kung Fu
What a chilling mercy killing
This is gonna be
American youth in Asia
A generation put to sleep
They took the stripes off a tiger and put ‘em on me
And the other boys of Company “B”
Don’t know when he plans to attack
But there’s a big cat scratching at my back
What a chilling mercy killing
Mine is gonna be
American youth in Asia
A generation put to sleep
Another plane lands at Travis
So many lost souls inside
While on the rolling hills of Arlington
Tombstones multiply
What a chilling mercy killing
This is gonna be
American youth in Asia
A generation put to sleep
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