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I, Wrote

IN A DENSE JUNGLE

In a dense jungle across the sea;
We’ve got men fighting, crying, & dying.
In the air the smell of rotting bodies linger;
It’s the heat & humidity that makes ’em cook.
Blood spilled on the ground;
POW/MIA’s can’t be found.

The government say their looking;
Yet, is it true: What are we going to do?
We’ve been telling them to get our men;
The ladies cry & we don’t know when ‑
they will, if they will, ever come home.

They fought a war that wasn’t ours;
All we could do was pray & look at the stars.
When will our boys come home?
We’re all alone, we want our boys to come home.

They’d go and come;
Always on the run.
Agent Orange all around;
Being dropped from planes to the ground.

They could be sitting in tiger cages;
The treatment they get is outrageous.
They may be beaten or worse;
we love them.

They fought a war that wasn’t ours;
All we could do was pray & look at the stars.
When will our boys come home?
We want them & we’re all alone.

wil becker
1992

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