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This is for the Woodstock Festival by proxy. To make a long story short. I was in Viet Nam in the Navy during the year of 1969. So I just had to tell some stories about the year 1969 that I experienced.
There is one point were I got too close to the mic with my voice. In the process of moving from the Nashville to the San Francisco area I lost my voice pop gard.
There is one point were I got too close to the mic with my voice. In the process of moving from the Nashville to the San Francisco area I lost my voice pop gard.
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Well, back in 69 I didn't want to go to Nam
So I joined the Navy so I wouldn't have to see a bomb.
Too make a long story short, I got on a destroyer escort in Seattle,
Just go out of boot camp, we were herded in ship like cattle.
There was a mean petty officer that said
your going over the side. He just loved to see me paint that ship
Swinging the scaffolding side to side.
I swear I think it was him that sent in the word for me to go to Viet Nam
So there enough I went and in the barracks whistled in was a bomb.
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There was a drifty kid who went it hit
asleep and didn't run.
But my shivering legs felt like they left me diving into bunker, that was NO FUN.
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Chorus
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That leads into another story, one that was kind of sick & fun
Our ship crossed the equator, a shellback we were to become.
We had to turn our shorts from front to back , shellbacks served us green noodles on our knees
With a high powered hose at our rear and a view of the high seas.
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There was a kid that didn't want to be a shellback, frightened by what we had to do. Cause they would push our faces in a food what seemed like awful smelly goo.
And if that wasn't enough remember the Slip n Slide? Well we had to slither through it with trash normally thrown over the side.
At the end was a make shift baptismal font and a shellack we did become. But those were the days on the Reasoner from it we just couldn't run.
_______________________Chorus
I know the happiest days of my life was getting out .
Getting lifted out of the ship by copter made me want to shout.
O the joy, so sublime hallelujah, my 4 years are ended I am free.
But it sure did leave precious memories of days on land and sea
These are some of my experiences as I served the best I knew how.
But it isn't always great to eat green noodle chow.
So I joined the Navy so I wouldn't have to see a bomb.
Too make a long story short, I got on a destroyer escort in Seattle,
Just go out of boot camp, we were herded in ship like cattle.
There was a mean petty officer that said
your going over the side. He just loved to see me paint that ship
Swinging the scaffolding side to side.
I swear I think it was him that sent in the word for me to go to Viet Nam
So there enough I went and in the barracks whistled in was a bomb.
----------
There was a drifty kid who went it hit
asleep and didn't run.
But my shivering legs felt like they left me diving into bunker, that was NO FUN.
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Chorus
---------------------------------------
That leads into another story, one that was kind of sick & fun
Our ship crossed the equator, a shellback we were to become.
We had to turn our shorts from front to back , shellbacks served us green noodles on our knees
With a high powered hose at our rear and a view of the high seas.
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There was a kid that didn't want to be a shellback, frightened by what we had to do. Cause they would push our faces in a food what seemed like awful smelly goo.
And if that wasn't enough remember the Slip n Slide? Well we had to slither through it with trash normally thrown over the side.
At the end was a make shift baptismal font and a shellack we did become. But those were the days on the Reasoner from it we just couldn't run.
_______________________Chorus
I know the happiest days of my life was getting out .
Getting lifted out of the ship by copter made me want to shout.
O the joy, so sublime hallelujah, my 4 years are ended I am free.
But it sure did leave precious memories of days on land and sea
These are some of my experiences as I served the best I knew how.
But it isn't always great to eat green noodle chow.
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