I’ll try and get one together, with a bit of humour.
This one is about getting together at Christmas –
We were sitting there at Christmas reminiscing
About those guys we knew who went missing
In that God awful place called SouthVietnam
Where we flew sorties over old Que Son
Jack had come to visit me from
home in Aberdeen town in bustling Hong Kong
He’s lived there since late 1973
With Beautiful wife and children numbered three
His tours of duty in that Southern theatre
Had changed his life and made him go back later
He’d met his wife in the last days of duty
Where he got her safely out of Saigon City
’cause by then he was no longer actively flying
Working hard instead in equipment buying
Kit and arms for forward units and men
And was quite successful at it and then
The NVA and Vietcong paid a call
And Jack thought must get out , staff and all
On the staff was future wife ‘Lee Chun’
Little did he know then what was to come
Escaped the city in the then normal way
By chopper and to a carrier parked in the bay
Repatriated in days to Pensacola City
Not with Lee Chun though more’s the pity
So off he went after resigning his comm
Off to look on the Isle of Hong Kong
And there she was waiting and not hard to find
They looked for each other, two of a kind,
So now you know why we were sitting there drinking
At Christmas time with the fairy lights blinking
Toasting some friends who couldn’t be here
And wishing all others a Happy New Year