A young man eager young and strong
for adventure joined the Army
And like his Dad who'd fought the Vietcong
he would fight the Iraqis
My country right or wrong he said
then like a young john Wayne off he's go
The Cavalry and bugle calls
a picture perfect Hollywood
Chorus:
Don't sleep at the Palestine Hotel
for American tank shells there will kill you
And Agent Orange Vietnam
makes me sing this song of blue
Verses:
In the year two thousand two
near Kandahar Afghanistan
Four young Canadians killed by friendly fire
shed their blood in the desert sand
You'd be proud of what the Chaplain said Mom
and now their shipping me back home
Eight trooper friends of mine will carry me
in a casket cold as stone
Aladdin and his magic lamp
Ali Baba and his forty thieves
Children's stories told throughout the world
since Nine-Eleven take new meaning
In the old days it was just the same
Chief Sitting Bull was on the menu
It's a rich man's war paid by poor man's blood
when will we wake-up to the truth
Words/ Music:
Paul Henry Dallaire
Paul henry Pub. SOCAN.CA
U.S. Rep: ASCAP
Production and Music:
Germain Bellemare Music:
He also sang the harmonies for this song and a few others as well,
and I'm strumming my old D-28 Frankenstein flat-top guitar.
Schumacher, Ontario. Canada
2016