Everywhere

Written By Greg Trooper and Sid Griffin

Dig in boys for an extended stay

Those were the final orders to come down that day

Waitin' to be saved in the Phillippines

You wait forever in the young Marines

Now I believe to be here is right

But I have to say that I'm scared tonight

Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand

What comes first, the country or the man?

Look at those slanted eyes

They're coming up over the hill

Catching us by surprise

It's time to kill or be killed

Over here over there

It's the same everywhere

A young boy cries out for his Momma

Before he dies for his home

All my life I have wanted to be

As clever and strong as my best friend Lee

Now we grew up together along Half Moon Bay

Lee was Japanese: born in the U.S.A.

Tommy is fighting Jerry along the River Seine

You know that me and Lee wanted to do the same

But then they bombed Pearl Harbour at the break of day

And I was headed for these islands and Lee was hauled away

Why look at those slanted eyes

You're all guilty as guilty can be

They're sent here as enemy spies

To overthrow the land of the free

Over here over there

It's the same everywhere

A young boy cries out for his Momma

Before he dies for his home

I never got home, my platoon was never saved

That little foxhole became my island grave

And Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained

Until he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain

Oh, Mr Slanted eyes

Can't you forgive and forget?

And Lee said

"Oh Mr Holy Ghost,

Can you catch water in a net?"

Over here over there

It's the same everywhere

A young boy cries out for his Momma

Before he dies for his home

A young boy cries out for his Momma

Before he dies for his home

A young boy cries out for his Momma

Before he dies for his home

Published by Sony/ATV songs/BMI & Songs of Welk/BMI