text: For fifteen years Le Bin Son
  Fought side by side with the Americans
  In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam
  In 75 Saigon fell and he left his command
  And brought his family to the promised land
  Seabrook, Texas and the small towns in the Gulf of Mexico
  It was delta country and reminded him of home
  He worked as a machinist, put his money away
  And bought a shrimp boat with his cousin
  And together they harvested Galveston Bay
  In the morning before the sun come up
  Hed kiss his sleeping daughter
  Steer out through the channel
  And cast his nets into the water
  Billy Sutter fought with Charlie Company
  In the highlands of Quang Tri
  He was wounded in the battle of Chu Lai
  Shipped home in 68
  There he married and worked the gulf fishing grounds
  In a boat that had been his fathers
  In the morning hed kiss his sleeping son
  And cast his nets into the water
  Billy sat in front of his TV as the South fell
  And the communists rolled into Saigon
  He and his friends watched as the refugees came
  Settled on the same streets and worked the coast theyd grew up on
  Soon in the bars around the harbor was talk
  Of America for Americans
  Someone said You want them out, you got to burn them out
  And brought in the Texas Klan
  One humid Texas night there were three shadows on the harbor
  Come to burn the Vietnamese boats into the sea
  In the fires light shots rang out
  Two Texans lay dead on the ground
  Le stood with a pistol in his hand
  A jury acquitted him in self-defense
  As before the judge he did stand
  But as Le walked down the courthouse steps
  Billy said My friend youre a dead man
  One late summer night Le stood watch along the waterside
  Billy stood in the shadows
  His Ka-Bar knife in his hand
  And the moon slipped behind the clouds
  Le lit a cigarette, the bay was still as glass
  As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocket
  Took a breath and let him pass
  In the early darkness, Billy rose up
  Went into the kitchen for a drink of water
  Kissed his sleeping wife
  Headed into the channel
  And cast his nets into the water
  Of Galveston Bay