Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Big Time in the Jungle, artist - Old Crow Medicine Show. Album song Best Of, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 09.02.2017
Record label: Nettwerk
Song language: English
Big Time in the Jungle |
Down in Eutaw, Alabama in 1965 |
A young man ‘bout 21, no different than you or I |
He’s catchin' catfish, and gettin' drunk |
But Uncle Sam called, he called him up |
Sent him out to Vietnam |
That young man |
Got his life turned upside down |
Turned his smile into a frown |
Robbed that king of his crown |
For an ideal he didn’t even know about |
He was gamblin' at the wagon when that army man showed up |
And he flashed that pen and paper |
And ol' Flukie he signed up |
There’s gonna be a big time in the jungle |
Gonna be a firefight |
Gonna be a rumble |
Send me out to Vietnam |
I’ll fight ten men |
I got nothin' left in the States for me |
I wanna see the world you see |
I know that Uncle Sam needs me |
To fight for an ideal I know nothing about |
Oh the drop point was dusty and the drill sergeant was loud |
And he could not see the corpses for the ragin' dust cloud |
Grab your duffle bags, head to the checkpoint |
Welcome to Vietnam, boys, you’re in for a hell of a fight |
Take it from the ones who know |
The army moves slow |
Hurry up and wait, don’t sleep late |
And learn to hate your brother |
Before you hate your foe |
On patrol out in the rice fields, them choppers flew low |
Glancing for the hand signal to tell you where to go |
Then the bombs started fallin' |
And they pounded his brain |
And he thought about Eutaw and who was to blame |
For sendin' him to Vietnam |