DON'T SLEEP AT THE PALESTINE HOTEL

A young man eager young and strong
For adventure joined the army
And like his dad who'd fought the Viet Cong
He would fight the Iraqis

My country right or wrong he said
And like a young John Wayne off he's go
The cavalry and bugle calls
A picture perfect Hollywood

Chorus:
Don't sleep at the Palestine Hotel
For American tank shells there will kill you
And Agent Orange Vietnam
Make's me sing this song of blue

Verses:
Alladin and the magic lamp
Alibaba and his forty thieves
Children stories told throughout the world
Since nine eleven take new meaning

In the year two thousand two
Near Kandahar Afghanistan
Four young Canadian soldier boys
Shed their blood in the dessert sand

You'd be proud of what the preacher said mom
For now there shippin me back home
Eight buddy's of mine will carry me
In a casket cold as stone

In the old days it was just the same
Chief Sitting Bull was on the menu
A rich man's war paid by poor man's blood
When will we realize the truth

Words & Music
Paul Henry Dallaire
Paul Henry Pub.
SOCAN
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