A little clarification, Dew is what they called marijuana and hash. Fire ants would nest at the top of bamboo trees. If you hit one, chances are they would rain down on you. Didi mao means, quickly! Hurry up! Move!!! a boot is a raw recruit. Lyrics are just below this picture-
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Beautiful little Oriental girls
Deep and mysterious eyes
Far from the free world
Deep in the jungle I...
Hide from the tracers
I melt in the darkness to stay alive
And I dream of the ocean
I dream of the sea
I close my eyes as the waves cover me
I pray I survive
Though a part of me dies
And is buried forever
Beneath foreign skies...
Beautiful little Oriental girls
Beautiful little Oriental girls
The names and the faces they all fade away
like a photograph left in the sun
That kind of life has a place of its own
down where the terror lives... all alone
One sweet forgetting... the touch of her skin
The way of the conquered to welcome me in
I didn’t know then all the things I know now
The greed and corruption back in DC
at the time they remained a mystery to me
out on patrol and looking to kill.
In the bamboo you would have to be still
or the fire ants fell and the fire ants stung
your body would scream
as you bit on your tongue
boots hid themslves in the elephant grass
smoking their fear with the Dew
in case The Viet Cong couldn’t find you
but they always did.
They always did
you might kill a snake
and you might kill a cow
but never The Cong
Didi mau! Didi mau!
Didi mau! Didi mau!
Beautiful little Oriental girls
Deep and mysterious eyes
Far from the free world
Deep in the jungle I...
Hide from the tracers
I melt in the darkness to stay alive
And I dream of the ocean
Dream of the sea
I close my eyes as the waves cover me
I pray I survive
Though a part of me dies
And is buried forever
Beneath foreign skies
Beautiful little Oriental girls
Beautiful little Oriental girls
