Spring Conscience
words and music: A1C Jim Schaffer
sung by Jim Schaffer
It was the spring
And I wanted to leap
And run in the meadows
The grass at my feet
But not too soon
I'd be lost in my grief
For just not following
The thing I believed
The notice came
And I packed my bags that day
I was headed out
For San Anton' way
The bus, it passed
All the grand old sights I knew
I cried all the way
What else could I do?
Now my head was shaved
And my clothes
they were new
But no shirt of checks
And my jeans
they weren't blue
I was dressed in green
And I stunk of the mud
That I wallowed in
And I know that I was stuck
Then we're overseas
And we learned how to kill
It's not a thing you know
When you're small
and you're little
But now you've grown
And you should be so smart
So go and kill your fellow man
You've got a brain, yes,
But no heart.
(Repeat First Verse)
