Stevie Wonder’s

1. Stevie Wonder’s Frontline "Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium"

2. I am a veteran of the war.

3. I up and joined the army back in 1964

4. At 16 I just had to be a man at any cost

5. I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off

6. I recall a quote from a movie that said "who's more a man Than a man with a reason that's worth dyin' for" Here Stevie is trying to say fighting in the war is a reason to die.

7. They had me standing on the front line

8. They had me standing on the front line

9. They had me standing on the front line

10. But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead

11. They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill

12. To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill Many soldiers took drugs during the war for a thrill, to ease their pain.

13. They put a gun in my hand and said, "shoot until he's dead"

14. But it's hard to kill when 'please your friend' echoes through your head

15. Brought up in church taught no man should take another's life

16. But then put in a jungle where life has no price

17. They had me standing on the front line

18. They had me standing on the front line

19. They had me standing on the front line

20. But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead

21. Back in the world the paper reads today

22. Another war is in the brewing

23. But what about the lives of yesterday

24. The Brady Bunch was a popular television show during the time period of the Vietnam War And the many happy families that have been ruined

25. My niece is a hooker

26. Many people turned to drugs from stressing during wartime. and my nephew's a junkie too

27. Due to long periods of time together, the soldiers bonded as brothers, united as one. But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do

28. They laugh and say "quit bragging" 'bout the war you should never have been in

29. After the war, many Soldiers suffered with nightmares, flashbacks, and experienced extreme paranoia if ever hearing noise resembling a gun shot. But my mind is so brain-washed I'd prob'bly go back and do it again

30. I walk

31. the neighborhood parading my purple heart The purple heart was a U.S. military decoration awarded to members of the armed forces who have been wounded in action. http://www.answers.com/topic/purple-heart

32. With a fear of

33. Agent orange was an herbicide containing trace amounts of the toxic contaminant dioxin that was used in the Vietnam War to defoliate areas of forest. agent orange that no one will stop http://www.answers.com/topic/agent-orange

34. They had me standing on the front line

35. They had me standing on the front line

36. Agent orange took down vast regions of the dense jungle. They had me standing on the front line

37. But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead

38. They had me standing on the front line

39. The war casualties of the Vietnam War was 58,193. They had me standing on the front line

40. They had me standing on the front line

41. But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead…