A Veteran's Song Lyrics - Nazareth

The bars are crowded with wasted youth 

You just went, you didn't know the truth 

You don't know that kid when you look back 

You remember the music, paint it black 

You had a brother in the movement and he burned his card 

He's got a job in the white house, ain't life hard 

You came back a hero on a stolen horse 

You say you don't fit in, you can't stay the course 

I may be right, don't care if I'm wrong 

It's a veteran's song 

I may be right, don't care if I'm wrong 

It's a veteran's song 

The band paraded playing "oh gung ho"" 

Your country needs you, you've got to go 

When you came over they said "soldier go back" 

When you came home they put you on the rack 

Between agent orange and the jungle and fear 

You're just surviving to get out of here 

You smoke some more herb and you keep your head down 

Could be your number is on the next round. 

(mccafferty, sweet, charlton, agnew) 

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