Hey thanks for changing the title for me, just noticed. This is how it stands now.. I'm an Irish lad by the way, so if anyone has any corrections, please say. I've read up on it as much as I could, but it still may be innacurate.

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Johnny landed in Saigon in December
With a pack in his hand, and a gun
Holding up Johnson's letter
As he stood under the burning sun

He was assigned to the first cavalry
Of the Third Battalion, Vietnam
And as 1968 rang in
He weeped as he wrote to his ma'

So for five long weeks Johnny stood
As a munitions guard of the night
When out nowhere came a blast
With a flash that burned his sight

And the first cavalry we're put into action
Their destination was Hue (pronounced Hway)
They hung out the flag of war, and
Johnny held the pole all the way

In Hue he saw a thousand dead
And he shot a eleven more
By evening he'd held the river
And by night he lay dead on the floor

For he'd woke in the middle of the night
And lit up' a Marlboro Red
When the smoke caught the sniper's eye
A bullet caught him right in the head

A flag crossed for Johnny's sacrifice
A symbol of his life
Nixon made another speech
And Johnson said his goodbyes

Flares in an a tattered envelope
And box of Marlboro Red
We're all that came home that day
With the last letter that Johnny had sent


Sorry about the double post!