Back To Vietnam - Television Personalities

He wakes up screaming

He wakes up screaming

He wakes up

He wakes up in a cold sweat

He dreams he’s going to get a letter in the post

Telling him he’s been called up again

They’re calling up the national guard

They’ll send him back

Send him back

Back to Vietnam

Back to Vietnam

He’s running in the jungle

He’s running with a bayonet

With a machine gun

And he’s wild on LSD

The enemy

He can’t see them

But he knows they’re there

He’s aware

And all around

He hears gunfire

He’s caught on fire

He’s so frightened

He wakes up screaming

He wakes up screaming

He dreads the day

A letter in the post

Telling him they’re calling back the national guard

They’ll send him back

Send him back

Send him back

Back to Vietnam

They’re bringing back conscription

They’re going to give everyone over seventeen a gun

And the housewhife in the kitchen

All she can think of

Is what to give her husband for tea

But he won’t be back

Do we have to go through it all again?

It’s all the same: Vietnam, Korea

First World War, Argentina, Falkland Islands

Another war, what is it for?

Now he’s in a home

For Vietnam refugees

He’s frightened

He’s in an institution

He’s in a wheelchair

War is the last creative act

I thought we might of learned some lesson

Richard Nixon on Channel Eleven

I heard it first

Happy birthday, happy Christmas

Guns go bang bang