Take The Star Out Of The Window Lyrics - Diamonds In The Rough - John Prine

Robert was a sailor 

For the best years of his life 

His captain was his mother 

And the ocean was his wife 

Only fresh out of the cradle 

Life's one and only spring 

He was sworn to do his duty 

And got blood on his high school ring 

And it's hello California 

Hello, dad and mom 

Ship ahoy, your baby boy 

Is home from Vietnam 

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Don't you ask me any questions 

'Bout the medals on my chest 

Take the star out of the window 

And let my conscience take a rest 

Now he sailed across the ocean 

To the old far eastern war 

And it was foreign to his body 

It was foreign to his shore 

So he traded in the present 

For the better times he'd seen 

And made an oriental waitress 

His own home comin' queen 

And it's hello California 

Hello, dad and mom 

Ship ahoy, your baby boy 

Is home from Vietnam 

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Don't you ask me any questions 

'Bout the medals on my chest 

Take the star out of the window 

And let my conscience take a rest