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{As I continue the Moving-Out phase of my Clock Shops, I get ever-closer to recording the 'Nam Remembrance CD this Summer...& realized I'd not penned one about one of the Happier Facets of The War Experience...sooo...HereWeGooo....}

Single Guy..in a Combat Zone
First Time EVER This Far-From-Home
Headin' Off to Australia..or Singapore
Takin' One Big Break..from the Horrors of War...On

(CHORUS)
R & R
Never Ever DREAMED I'd EVER Get This Far
Sure Was FATIGUED..But Now I Get..A BREAK
(& Maybe This War WASN'T Such a BIG..Mistake?)
Exotic Women, WHEREVER You ARE
I'm Out to MEETYA On R & R---

& Soon I'm Flirtin' on Bondi Beach
Those Aussie Women Sure Looked GOOD t'Me!
Each with a SMILE & Good at CONVERSATION
10 Wonderful DAYS..Back in CIVILIZATION...On...

(REPEAT CH, Last Couplet CHANGED)
Exotic Women, OOOO...There They ARE!
(You Meet a Fair-Share on Every
R & R!)

(BRIDGE)
Now I Agree that War-Is-Hell
But Foreign Ladies treat a Soldier Well!!!

& That World Travel makes A Man..A Man
Checkin' What's-Out-There as Best-You-Can
These are Special Moments that Could Change Your Life:
(You Might Return..with a Foreign Wife...from..)

(CHORUS)
R & R
Time-Off for Good Behavior in..Exotic Bars
Meetin' All The Locals & Blowin'-Off Steam
Lotsa Nice MILES from The Killin' Machine
Good Mem'Ries..Forever..Follow Wherever You Are
Oh, Thank God..We Had...
A Little..R & R ---

(TAG)
Thank God We all had...a Little...R & R !!!

(C) 2013 by Stan Good, BMI
All Rights Reserved.

well done...nice progression in the story.

A break from the horrors of war Stan,sounds good, even better if you didn't have to return to the hostilities.
Travis

Yup, Stan, you don't make war sound all that bad!

Many Thanks, Bro Neil!

(I actually had more Fun in Singapore..heh!)

Best Wishes & a Big Guy-Hug,
Stan

HiDee Bwo!!!

'68-'69 was prolly one of THE most-interesting, & occasionally-exciting Years of my life, and Yep, there were some pretty Fun Moments interspersed between the Grim Job we were tasked-with.

MOST of this CD I penned..& posted here..almost 2 years ago..."Still Coming Back from The War" is title track...with "Love You by Day/Kill You by Night" and "Manhunt" for the Typical-War-Story Songs... But I think others, like "The Major's Whore" and "He Gave His Sex Life for His Country"...and "Glad I'm Better-Lookin' (Than My Photo I.D.)"..plus "Don't F with A PFC", if it makes it on the Album, will Round Out the MANY Facets of a Year in a War Zone.

All in All, it's a Very Cathartic effort...and as with this one, lots of Fun to Reminisce a wee-bit...on Days Gone By, long-ago.
(This Year marks the 50th Anniversary of the US's introducing Ground Troops in Vietnam.)

Thanks for Your Kind Words & Visit, Good Buddy!
Best Wishes & a Big Bwo-Hug,
Stan

HiYa Brother Chris!!!

I ended up one of The Fortunate Few over there...

Army had no use for my BA in Fine Arts, so off I went to Combat Engineer School, Ft Leonard Wood, MO...where I learned to lay & probe for mines, build hasty obstacles and Bailey Bridges, shoot M-Something-or-other Machine guns, M-76 Grenade Launchers, and LAW Anti-Tank Rockets (latter 2 were somewhat FUN)... I'd make a good terrorist to this day, since I still remember how to handle C-4, Det Cord, and booby-trapping...

But, as Luck would have it, they needed a Sec'y for the Chief of Records Branch, 4th Infantry Admin Co..the day I arrived in Pleiku, and my Typewriting Ability..and Gregg Notehand Skills...got me a pretty plumb job from Day One.

4 months later, I was awarding a Good Conduct Medal to a Returning-Stateside Soldier...and didn't recognize his MOS (Military Occupational Specialty Number)..which turned out to be "Combat Illustrator"... In Reality, he'd been the Div. Newspaper's Cartoonist...which is what I'd done for years in Civilian Life... Ended up as His Replacement...& for 8 Fun months I was with the Press Folks, Cartooning-Away with my own Strip, "PFCIC". (It wasn't ALL Fun...but sure coulda been Worse!)

Thanks for Your Kind Visit & Words, Amigo!
Best Wishes & a Big Guy-Hug,
Stan

Hey Stan

Enjoyed this read, I quite liked it.

It's written tightly and I like the title.

But what I like most about it was the references to Australia

Cheers, wondering what it will sound like to music...

Rich

G'Day, Brother Rich!!!

I found Sydney to be a Delightful Town...& the Locals a LOT of Fun! Can't remember the name of the 3-Story-Bar most of us Yanks hung-out at, but it was a Trip! I'd brought my Scuba Gear & $200, only to discover $200 was the Airfare to get to the Great Barrier Reef, and I'd have had to starve for 10 days, if I went. Sooo..met another US Dive Guy & we rented tanks & got advice from a local dive shop "Where to dive in Sydney?"

"Try Manley Bay" they said, & we did...tho my Companion disappeared into the murk almost immediately/couldn't track his bubbles/both of us used up all our air pretty quickly..end of dive. Later-on, learned Manley Bay there is THE most Shark-Infested Area in all the Harbor...

Apparently the Local Guys weren't Entirely-Happy about all the GIs hitting on their women... ;-)>

Great Steaks, Enjoyed the Lawn Bowling, and bought a buncha Aborigine Art I still have to this day (Yep, a REAL Boomerang, as-well!) Looking forwards to heading back to see the Outback/The Reef I'd missed/& New Zealand, as-well!

Thanks for Your Kind Words & Visit!
Best Wishes & a Big Guy-Hug,
Stan