honey don t tell the boys i been talkin like this cause i can t have em thinkin i m scared truth is i ain t afraid a nothin no more i m tired and i just don t care how many tours is too many tours my baby she d like to know cause always there at the back a my mind is that jody s there when i go never let em send me back to sadr city never let em send me back some shit went down down in sadr city some shit went down in iraq i ain t goin back well i was there in 04 when it first got hot and muqtada s local fighters emerged earned a purple heart via seven six two and another later during the surge didn t know nothin back then didn t care it was get it out and kick us some ass couldn t tell a sunni from a shia from the kurds but they educated me pretty fast never let em send me back to sadr city never let em send me back some shit went down down in sadr city some shit went down in iraq i ain t goin back well it was pretty touch n go from the very first light fiercest action that i d ever seen ambush come and we hadda dismount get busy fight it out in the streets well all hell broke loose takin fire from the rooftops haji launchin rpgs fightin runnin battles with militias in the alleys draggin on and on week after week takin hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby but they wouldn t let us light up a mosque then our tanks rolled in real hard real heavy but they couldn t help the guys that we lost never let em send me back to sadr city never let em send me back some shit went down down in sadr city some shit went down in iraq i ain t goin back well i don t know if it matters to the folks back home but they say they re all supportin the troops there s no time anyway to be dwelling on that out here thinkin s only for fools and as long as there s no lack of young man willin to ride to the sound of the guns i ll be waking up dreaming of the mahdi army and of both sides losing their sons they ain t a gonna send me back to sadr city they ain t a gonna send me back my orders came through and babe it isn t pretty it s afghanistan instead of iraq they re sending me back