[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:22.45]I am a veteran of the war [00:27.92]I up and joined the army back an 1964 [00:33.13]At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost [00:38.57]I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off [00:44.13]I recall a quote form a movie [00:46.15]That said  "Who's more a man [00:49.52]Than a man with a reason [00:51.00]That's worth dyin' for" [00:54.99]They had me standing on the front line [01:00.45]They had me standing on the front line [01:05.87]They had me standing on the front line [01:09.76]But now I stand at the back of the line [01:11.97]When it comes to gettin' ahead [01:16.73]They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill [01:22.04]To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill [01:27.58]They put a gun in my hand and said  "Shoot until he's dead" [01:32.87]But it's hard to kill when "Please I'm your friend" [01:35.70]Echoes through your head [01:38.48]Brought up in church [01:39.57]Taught no man should take another's life [01:43.83]But then put in the jungle [01:45.17]Where life has no price  no [01:49.32]They had me standing on the front line [01:54.71]They had me standing on the front line [02:00.18]They had me standing on the front line [02:04.04]But now I stand at the back of the line [02:06.28]When it comes to gettin' ahead [02:11.10]Back in the world the paper reads today [02:16.50]Another war is in the brewing [02:21.89]But what about the lives of yesterday [02:26.14]And the many happy families that have been ruined [02:32.75]My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie too [02:38.20]But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do [02:43.67]They laugh and say  "Quit braggin' [02:45.38]'Bout the war you should have never been in" [02:48.93]But my mind is so brain-washed [02:50.87]I'd probably go back and do it again [02:54.46]I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart [02:59.94]With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop  no [03:05.41]They had me standing on the front line [03:10.91]They had me standing on the front line [03:16.22]They had me standing on the front line [03:19.83]Now But I stand at the back of the line [03:22.30]When it comes to gettin' ahead [03:27.13]They had me standing on the front line [03:32.60]They had me standing on the front line [03:38.02]They had me standing on the front line [03:41.80]Now I stand at the back of the line [03:44.07]When it comes to gettin' ahead [03:46.65]Would you believe I do [03:48.79]They had me standing on the front line [03:54.27]They had me standing on the front line [03:59.68]They had me standing on the front line [04:03.31]But now I stand at the back of the line [04:05.76]When it comes to gettin' ahead