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God Rest Ye Merry Nam Gentlemen |
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God rest Ye Merry Nam Gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Rejoicing in battle's cacophonous din
Remembering the Savior born on Christmas day
O, jubilation the Lord Christ did bring us
Warriors receiving God's exultation and traumas
Glad tidings of comfort and joy ~
Comfort and joy...
But there is little glee that I can see
No in-country joy for this war weary boy.
For, O God, men here want to kill us...
With the dust from which we came reunite us
With rockets of lightning's radiance
Wearing bricky thin our patience
Illuminating our day
Where we have gone astray
Stalking our combat patrol mid rolling thunder
With heavenly exclamation makes us boys wonder.
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
But there is little delight in this fearful night
No joy to be had for this weary war torn boy.
O God rest Ye Merry Nam Gentlemen
In this vile world of killing's sin
Shadowing in tempest, storm, and wind
That grunts to hell and back do send
Dodging bullets from merry little elves
Carrying assorted exploding abrasives.
There will be no holly jolly Christmas
Just ringing in our ears fearful combat dogmas.
The shootin' don't 'xactly make us with bliss gay
O face now war's great ecstasy dismay.
For there is no silent night
On this blessed eve of fright
Where we combat shepherds of the right
Go with duty to the fight
O God, save us all from Satan's power
Arise from where we in foxholes cower
Lift us up on this night of a blue, blue Christmas
All us boys just thinkin' 'bout our mommas
Boys lost in our green Christmas jungle
Spreadin' out so one round won't get us all when we
mingle.
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
But there is little delight in this fearful night
No joy to be had for this weary war torn boy.
Blessed angel's came
In God, our Heavenly Father's name
Unto certain shepherds
To bring peace to Cong swineherds
Abiding in their jungle, doing duty just the same
Singing, heralding
We laud the Son Of God by name
Take us to Bethlehem
Where the sacred babe was born
Like us, by oppressive evil shorn.
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
But there is little delight in this fearful night
No joy to be had for this weary war torn boy. |
By
Gary Jacobson
Copyright 2010
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December 25, 2010 |
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About
Author...
In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co
2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple
Heart.
Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he
hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by
a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are
full of silver threads that rise inside them as
the moon grows large." So Gary says he
writes because "It is that these silver
threads are words poking at me � I must let them
out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot
bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate
those who haven't the foggiest idea about the
effect that the horrors of war have on
boys-next-door."
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