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DEAR AGENT ORANGE

© 2012 Ricki E. Bellos (BMI) / Jim Purtell (BMI)
 

Dear Agent Orange

We met so many years ago

A soldier and kid

Trying to survive and make it home

Didn’t know you played for keeps

Lying in wait inside of me

 

Dear Agent Orange

In country so many children cry

The ones that survived

And those that you barely left alive

Though their future is unsure

As a people we’ll endure

 

Now it seems our leaders knew about you

No one cared about the damage you’d do

No matter what they said you were for

You were a weapon of war

 

Dear Agent Orange

You showed no favorites raining down

Neither friend nor foe

Turning everything to brown

Now your legacy is told

Here you remain body and soul

 

Dear Agent Orange

Dear Agent Orange

Dear Agent Orange

Here you remain body and soul