Back To Vietnam Lyrics - The Painted Word - 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