Agent Orange

In '65 the orders came
Vietnam would never be the same
Operation Ranch Hand took its flight
Toxic herbicides were spread out wide

They sprayed the land with deadly rain
No jungle left to hide again

They send
Agent Orange falling down
Trees once green now turning brown
A silent killer in the air
Death that lingers everywhere
They send Agent Orange

20 million gallons from the sky
Fields and forests left to die
But it wasn't just the trees that fell
the Children born in a living hell

They sprayed the land with deadly rain
No jungle left to hide again

They send
Agent Orange falling down
Trees once green now turning brown
A silent killer in the air
Death that lingers everywhere
They send Agent Orange

Ho Chi Minh's trail, a shadowed road
Now exposed, where supplies once flowed
The US planes are reaching far
Hit Laos and Cambodia

By '71 the spraying ceased
But the damage lived beyond the peace
Still in the soil, still in the blood
Echoes of war in the monsoon flood

They sprayed the land with deadly rain
No jungle left to hide again

They send
Agent Orange falling down
Trees once green now turning brown
A silent killer in the air
Death that lingers everywhere
They send Agent Orange