The Girl Next Door - Country Joe 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 death and pain

And the girl next door will never be the same

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 death, 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.. ..