Tour of Duty

I'm riding on the day's last train

Stepping on the platform, trying to see you through the rain

I don't know the ways you've changed since I left

And I really don't care

I've done my tour of duty

Now I'm home and I ain't going anywhere

I taught myself to tolerate the pain

All the loneliness and boredom and the work I did in vain

All the work we did in vain

Now I'm not the same as I was

I've done my tour of duty

Now I'll try to do what a civilian does

And I promise not to bore you with my stories

And I promise not to scare you with my tears

And I never would exaggerate the glory

I'll seem so satisfied here

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I've been eating like I'm out on bail

Collard greens and chicken wings and oysters by the pail

Eating oysters by the pail

Making up for those lost days

'Cause I've done my tour of duty

And now I'm going to put you in my family way

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We'll laugh like little children telling secrets

Probably cry like old women drinking gin

'Cause I've done my tour of duty

And now I'm home, and I ain't leaving here again

I've done my tour of duty

Now I'm home and I ain't leaving here again