[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I can't write left handed
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Would you please write a letter, write a letter to my mother
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Tell her to tell, tell her to tell, tell her to tell the family lawyer
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Try to get, try to get a deferment for my younger brother
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[Pre-Chorus]
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Tell the Reverend Harris to pray for me, lord,
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I ain't gonna live, I don't believe I'm going to live to get much older
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[Chorus]
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
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Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Boot camp we had classes
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You know we talked about fightin', fightin' everyday
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And lookin' through rosy, rosy colored glasses
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I must admit it seemed exciting anyway
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But something that day overlooked to tell me
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Bullet look better I must say
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Rather when they comin' at you.
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But go without the other way
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[Pre-Chorus]
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And please call up the Reverend, call up, call up the Reverend Harris
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And tell him to ask the lord to do some good things for me
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Tell him, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live to get much older
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[Chorus]
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
Ab N.C.
Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Outro]
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