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Lyrics for Galveston Bay by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:
| | | Artist: | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Galveston Bay | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 273 | | | | Lyrics: | For fifteen years Le Bin Son
Fought side by side with the Americans
In the mountains and
deltas of Vietnam
In '75 Saigon fell and he left his command
And brought his family to the
promised land
Seabrook, Texas and the small towns in the Gulf of Mexico
It was delta
country and reminded him of home
He worked as a machinist, put his money away
And bought a
shrimp boat with his cousin
And together they harvested Galveston Bay
In the mornin'
'fore the sun come up
He'd kiss his sleepin' daughter
Steer out through the channel
And
cast his nets into the water
Billy Sutter fought with Charlie Company
In the highlands
of Quang Tri
He was wounded in the battle of Chu Lai
Shipped home in '68
There he
married and worked the gulf fishing grounds
In a boat that'd been his father's
In the
morning he'd kiss his sleeping son
And cast his nets into the water
Billy sat in front
of his TV as the South fell
And the communists rolled into Saigon
He and his friends watched
as the refugees came
Settled on the same streets and worked the coast they'd grew up on
Soon
in the bars around the harbor was talk
Of America for Americans
Someone said "You want 'em
out, you got to burn 'em out."
And brought in the Texas Klan
One humid Texas night
there were three shadows on the harbor
Come to burn the Vietnamese boats into the sea
In the
fire's light shots rang out
Two Texans lay dead on the ground
Le stood with a pistol in his
hand
A jury acquitted him in self-defense
As before the judge he did stand
But as
Le walked down the courthouse steps
Billy said "My friend you're a dead man."
One late
summer night Le st | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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