1971 hung up a chicken bone on the old chandelier at the sawdust saloon the medical exam had cleared me to fight my mother said stay and i thought that i might my brother said stay that s when i left never know who might be called in your stead so i showed up on time to meet my platoon and hung up a bone in the sawdust saloon with jimmy tassone i used to play ball now he sits here beside me and talks like a man he looks like a man says he shoots like a man but no medal of honor will make his mom move back in so he said my drunk father i ll be back for you soon but jimmy still hangs in the sawdust saloon and i love my country with a deep frenzied love her legs spread out wide her nose turned up so i showed up on time to meet my platoon and hung up a bone in the sawdust saloon the candle in the window the coin in the well the break in your voice the crack in the bell all raise up a round without saying a word to them old dusty bones and the good men that served