text: Well with buckshot eyes and a purple heart
  I rolled down the national stroll
  With a big fat paycheck strapped to my hip sack
  And a shore leave wristwatch underneath my sleeve
  In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
  I rowed down the gutter to the blood bank
  And Id left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
  And I was in bad need of a shave
  I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
  And shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped
  And I bought a long-sleeved shirt with horses on the front
  And some gum and a lighter and a knife
  And a new deck of cards with girls on the back
  And I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife
  And I said, Baby, Im so far away from home
  And I miss my baby so
  I cant make it by myself
  I love you so
  Well I was pacing myself, trying to make it all last
  Squeezing all the life out of a lousy two-day pass
  And I had a cold one at the Dragon with some Filipino floor show
  And I talked baseball with a lieutenant over a Singapore Sling
  And I wondered how the same moon outside over this Chinatown fair
  Could look down on Illinois and find you there
  And you know I love you, baby
  Im so far away from home
  Im so far away from home
  And I miss my baby so
  I cant make it by myself
  I love you so
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave
  Shore leave