[Verse]
Well, good evening, friends, it's good to be back in the good old USA,
Where they make damn sure to keep all theirs wars thousands of mile away,
For I've just been across the ocean, to see my family home,
And after what I saw there, I never more will roam.
[Chorus]
Oh, give me a home where the Panthers roam and the Weathermen so free,
Take a walk in the dark around Central Park, it does not bother me,
Tear thе country in two, but whatever you do, I'll stay right wherе I am,
For I do not want another trip to England's Vietnam.
[Verse]
When we arrived at Aldergrove, that's where the planes do go,
It used to be Nutts Corner, why they changed it, I just don't know,
I was wearing an army jacket, from Vietnam it came,
When a soldier stuck a gun in my ribs and he said "I know your game."
"Oh, where's your black beret?" he cried, "and your hurley stick, as well?"
I hit him with my camera and like a stone he fell,
Then I called for a policeman to take this poor man away,
Saying, "this could never happen in the good old USA."
[Chorus]
Oh, give me a home where the Panthers roam and the Weathermen so free,
Take a walk in the dark around Central Park, it does not bother me,
Tear thе country in two, but whatever you do, I'll stay right wherе I am,
For I do not want another trip to England's Vietnam.
[Verse]
The policeman grabbed me by the arm saying, "Come along with me,
For I can tell by the gleam in your eye that you hate democracy,"
You're a Trotskyist from the Kremlin, you're a Vatican anarchist spy,
You're a communist from China, a commie from the FBI.
Well, you know that I had to leave there, I will tell you what I done,
I slipped five dollars in his hand and I began to run,
Then I walked the streets of Belfast, from the New Lodge to the Falls
Watching the rubber bullets going bouncing off the walls
[Chorus]
Well, give me a home where the Panthers roam and the Weathermen so free,
Take a walk in the dark around Central Park, it does not bother me,
Tear thе country in two, but whatever you do, I'll stay right wherе I am,
For I do not want another trip to England's Vietnam.