Ripped open by metal explosion

Caught in barbed wire
Fireball

Bullet shock

Bayonet
Electricity

Shrapnel

Throbbing meat

Electronic data processing

Black uniforms
Bare feet, carbines
Mail-order rifles
Shoot the muscles
Two-hundred-and-fifty-six Viet Cong captured
Two-hundred-and-fifty-six Viet Cong captured

Prisoners in Niggertown
It's a dirty little war
Three Five Zero Zero
Take weapons up and begin to kill
Watch the long long armies drifting home (yeah)

Prisoners in Niggertown
It's a dirty little war
Three Five Zero Zero
Take weapons up and begin to kill
Watch the long long armies drifting home (yeah)

Prisoners in Niggertown
It's a dirty little war (dirty little war)
Three Five Zero Zero (zero zero)
Take weapons up and begin to kill (and begin to kill)
Watch the long long armies drifting home (long long long armies drifting)

Ripped open by metal explosion
Caught in barbed wire
Fireball
Bullet shock
Bayonet
Electricity
Shrapnel
Throbbing meat
Electronic data


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    This song, man. The individual words, in juxtaposition and in the context with the expanding music, paint such a horrific picture of war. The second part then provides a contrasting image with the celebratory, parade-like music. Whoo, this song gets me every time.

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