Brothers Under the Bridge
Saigon, It was all gone
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew up on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walkin' along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Campsite's an hour's walk
From the nearest road to town
Up here there's too much brush and canyon
For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin'
Just wanna live
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Come the Santa Ana's, Man that dry brush'll light
Billy Devon got burnt up
In his own campfire one winter night
We buried his body
In the white stone high up along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Had enough of town and the street life
Over nothin' you end up
On the wrong end of someone's knife
Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
Me and the brothers under the bridge
I came home in '72
You were just a beautiful light
In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac
I was just a kid
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Come Veteran's Day
I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute you're right there
And something slips.......