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Saigon, it was all gone The same Coke machines As the streets I grew on Down in a mesquite canyon We come walking along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge

Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town Up here there's too much brush and canyon For the CHP choppers to touch down Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live Me and the brothers under the bridge Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge

Had enough of town and the street life Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife Now I don't want no trouble And I ain't got none to give Me and the brothers under the bridge

I come home in '72 You were just a beautiul light In your mama's dark eyes of blue I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues I held your mother's hand When they passed with the red, white and blue

I chose this song because I thought it really showed the horror of Vietnam, and the fear that the soldiers fighting there must have felt. I think the theme of this was about how through this whole war where the soldiers were experiencing terrible things, to their mom they were still only a child, and that they were all somebody's son. I think this could be considered opinion although it certainly moves you to not want to go or let your family go to war. I think hearing this would make the young people that could be drafted worried, and not want to go to war. back to "Songs of the Vietnam Era"