[Intro: choir, keyboard fanfare] Jack Morgan lives! Jack Morgan lives! [Verse 1] Sampson County, June of nineteen-thirty, Korea with the Second when the Chinese came, Bragg in fifty-six, and Bong Son in sixty-five, And Laos, where the Army never signed its name! [Pre-Chorus] Scrabble tiles for mountains, A shoelace for the stream, One yellow soldier standing Where a point man should have been! [Chorus: gang vocals] Green for the record! Yellow for the ghost! Red for the lies the paperbacks told! Some of it happened, some of it's his, Nobody alive can tell you which is which. Jack Morgan lives! (Jack Morgan lives!) [Verse 2] Lang Vei, sixty-eight, and the tanks came through the wire, A rocket that went click and a radio on fire! Son Tay, seventy, and the cells were empty on the raid, But in the school across the wall an accordion played! [Pre-Chorus] He told it and I checked it, I colored every line. A Russian in a tank hatch Came back yellow every time! [Chorus: gang vocals] Green for the record! Yellow for the ghost! Red for the lies the paperbacks told! Some of it happened, some of it's his, Nobody alive can tell you which is which. Jack Morgan lives! (Jack Morgan lives!) [Bridge: spoken word over snare drum roll, choir answers] Reid, Thomas J. Bronze Star with V. (V!) Three Purple Hearts. (Three!) Temporary duty, August to December, nineteen-seventy. Location... (Withheld!) (Withheld! Withheld!) [Guitar Solo: twin guitars] [Verse 3] Berlin, eighty-nine, with a film roll in his sock, And a colonel at the checkpoint turning back the lock! Sarajevo, ninety-seven, snow on every roof, He put the dice cup down at last and gave the kid the truth: (It wasn't luck! I sent him!) [Pre-Chorus] A star on the wall at Langley, The north wall, from the left, And a flag with no one under it Folded on a chest. [Key Change] [Final Chorus: full choir, gang vocals] Green for the record! Yellow for Johnny! Red for the lies the paperbacks told! Some of it happened, some of it's his, Nobody alive can tell you which is which. Jack Morgan lives! (Jack Morgan lives!) [Outro: choir] Jack Morgan lives! [Lead guitar alone, three notes] [End]
