Joined the Service Out of School in the Year of '69 
When the Doors Were Ridin' On the Storm, Hendrix Was Alive 
And Before I Could Blink An Eye, I Was Sent to Vietnam 
To Teach Them People Democracy 
Jesus, What a Laugh.

All Across the Highlands, We Moved in Single File 
Lookin' For Them Vietcong, I Musta Crawled a 1000 Miles 
But I'd Only One Thought On Me Mind, 
'twas Your Eyes of Emerald Green 
My Love Is in New York, Oh She's the Only One For Me

I Learned to Smoke the Opium Pipe, I Learned It All Too Well 
Coz When the Shells Are Bangin' in Your Ears 
It Stops That Livin' Hell 
Then One Night 6 Months Later 
While in the Dmz 
Me Own Dear U.s. Air Force Blew the Hell Right Out of Me

Still I Loved My Country 
I Saluted the Old Flag 
When You're a Boy From Woodside, Queens 
You Give It All You Have 
'cause I Knew You'd Be There Waitin' 
With Your Eyes of Emerald Green 
My Love Is in New York and She's the Only One For Me

But When I Got Sent Home At Last, They Jeered and Spat At Me 
They Called Me a Fascist, Said I Was the Enemy 
I Could've Put Up With All of That 
'twas no Big Thing to Me 
But You Killed Me With One Look of Disgust 
From Those Emerald Greens

Now I Sit Down Here On Broadway, This Pavement Is Me Home 
The War Is Long Forgotten, For Those Who Stayed At Home 
And I Wish I Had Me Opium Pipe 
To Stop That Livin' Hell 
That's Goin' On Inside Me Head, I Wish It All So Well 
And the Doors Still Ride By On the Storm 
Hendrix Hides From Joe 
I Should Be History Around Here But Where Else Is There to Go 
Coz I Know You're Out There Somewhere, 
With Your Eyes of Emerald Green 
My Love Is in New York, Oh She's the Only One For Me