John Mccutcheon - Let's Keep It Straight lyrics

I left home for boot camp the day I turned eighteen It was ten weeks of hell, but I made a Marine Stationed at Cherry Point when the call came to war I was eager to go it's what I was trained for So I shipped out to Dubai with the Hundred and First And, though we never saw action, we knew ten times worse In bone-chilling danger we lived every day We found one of the guys in our unit was gay Chorus A Let's keep it straight when you carry a gun It's not what you do, boys, it's just who you've done The fate of our nation, it's power and might Depend on who soldiers might sleep with at night On patrol in the jungle, my buddies and I Came upon, to our horror, the village, Mi Lai Midst the dead and the dying we heard one old man say "They came and they k**ed, but, thank God, they weren't gay!" Chorus A Bridge: We work in your office, we teach in your schools We pray in your churches, we live by the rules We win your elections, we die in your wars Who we choose to love is no business of yours All alone on the street in the quickening night Miles from home as my heart fills with fright No place for a woman to be out this way There's a man in the shadows, God, I hope that he's gay! Chorus B: Our leaders and generals all carry on, "We need separate showers and barracks and johns" Men frightened of men, I just laugh through my tears To think it's what women have gone through for years Chorus A Tag: I guess I misunderstood when I saw on TV, "Join Today's Army, be all you can be"