Country Joe McDonald - The Girl Next Door lyrics

McDonald She grew up in America, just the girl next door Never thought to question what we were fighting for They sent her off to war and showed her d**h and pain And the girl next door will never be the same Chorus: Guarding her patients with a 45 Checking the wounded to make sure they're alive By day she's in fatigues and at night she's in a dress She's everybody's savior, the Army combat nurse She told her girlfriends "I'll see you some old day I've joined the Army and they're sending me away" They taught her how to mend a wound and how to tend The sick But nothing could prepare her for all this Bridge: Women at home waiting all alone Women in life trying to do what's right Women in war in the blood and gore Women in d**h, they die just like the rest A jungle ain't a place for a girl to be alone Surrounded by the enemy with all the soldiers gone Under attack you know she's got to do her best Because she's everybody's savior, the Army combat nurse Back home in civilian life, Army life all done Childhood friends can't understand why she's not any fun But a vision of the wounded still screams inside her brain And the girl next door will never be the same She's everybody's savior but her own, the Army combat Nurse, but who will save her now? (Chaplain's rap) "Before I say grace today I'd like for us to pause for a moment of silence in memory of our friends that were lost this morning , . . let us pray for the food which we are about to receive from your goodness our father we give. . . ."