G'Mornin' Mz Jeanie B!

I've held-back from posting this one..because of the Politics: I'm currently being considered for a 41-Year-Late Purple Heart awarded for a broken neck..encountered my First Week in 'Nam..which I'd forgotten-about for 35, maybe 36 years afterwards..'till it started bothering me daily. (& 'till the VA sent me the Paperwork...about 3 months back.)

Sometimes, in life, you do the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons.

When you're an Enlisted Man, you encounter Officers you Admire (& you'd die-for), and then..you serve under SOME you'd like to get even-with. What I did DID save some lives/Changed some History/& yeah, it was pretty exciting at the time... This'll probably be on my "Still Coming Back From The War" CD...if I ever get it recorded in the next 4 years... ;-)>

"DON'T 'F' WITH A PFC" (C) 2010 by Stan Good, BMI

(Opens with CHORUS)
DON'T F WITH A PFC
DON'T F WITH A PFC
They Might LOOK Like "Cannon Fodder"
But They're LETHAL..(You'll SEE)
DON'T F WITH A PFC--

I Used to Hide a little "F-T-A"
In Each Cartoon Panel when Our Major DEROSED-Away
The NEW One We GOT..Hoped to BE a "Light Bird"
& I Got Busted-Down-to-Private..when He Got The Word

But..(REPEAT CHORUS)

He Didn't Like My Attitude, Now & Again
While He was Always Suckin'-Up..to Our Major-Gen
Buckin'-for-Promotion..(& Dumpin'-on-US)
In Our Whole Press Hootch, There Was No Love-Lost...

Yeah, Always Polishin'-Up General Charles P. Stone
Who Had 2 Stars, Already, now Soon-To-Go-Home
Where "Star Three" was A-Waitin', & Boy, was He "SHORT"
Thought He'd "Tighten-Up His Troops"..Yeah, "Just Once-More"...

So He Ordered All Us E-M to "Give SALUTES"
EVEN "Way Out-FRONT" (He Didn't Give a Hoot!)
If An Officer-Walked-by..& You Missed Your Cue
You'd be Sent.."FURTHER OUT"..and To-Hell-With-You...

But...(REPEAT CHORUS)

Waal, I Knew a Reporter by The Name of Don Hurst
Said "I Got a HEADLINE for You..Before Some Guys Get-Hurt"
He was with OVERSEAS WEEKLY and He Had a Friend
Gal from The BOSTON GLOBE, who Dropped-By..That Weekend

& She was As-Cute..as a Stringer-Could-Be
Yep, She & The General had a Dinner Soir-EE
She was Leavin' Next Morning, when The Story Broke
'Bout Pleiku's "SALUTE OR SHOOT GENERAL", yeah That's All-She-Wrote!

So..(REPEAT CHORUS)

Soon The General was On..The Cover of LIFE
& "Salute-or-Shoot" Made The TV News..each Night!
Had Camera Crews Roll-In from CBS..NBC..
Asking ALL KINDSA QUESTIONS..Bringin' Misery!

..To That MAJOR Who'd Rubbed Us ALL The-Wrong-WAY
(I'd never Heard the Term "FLAP"..Before That DAY!)
& THAT's What-Happened to The Major's "Light-Bird"
Soon, "He Retired..JUST-A-Major.." From What I've Heard

So DON'T F WITH A PFC
DON'T F WITH A PFC
This Story's 'Bout as TRUE as it Ever Could BE
(Yeah) DON'T F WITH A PFC
They ARE The ONES Who'll GET-YA Where You DESERVE..To BE
So..DON'T F WITH A PFC!

(REPEAT HOOK/FADED-OUT)

(C) 2010, All Rights Reserved.







Last edited by "Tampa Stan" Good; 07/25/10 08:47 AM.