Yeah, it's way up in the Black Hills

Where we come from

There's a girl and she warned me

Don't pick up that gun, gun Oh, by the law of the land

By the promise that might is right

She would hold me and cry

Don't you go off the fight Somebody knocking at my door

Oh, I been called to war

Say goodbye to Tobacco Road

Wear my colors, call my brothers

And for my country I'll go Down on Hell's Half Acre and again

Shakin' with fever, come again

Rumble in the jungle

Oh down on Hell's Half Acre and again Oh, she wrote me in a letter

And said, "What have they done?" Oh, my angel

Placed a crown of thorns

On this native son, like that Oh, maybe they're right

Oh, but maybe they're wrong

Oh, but what can I do

You're not here you're gone Somethin' in the air is much too quiet

Hear my heartbeat, oh

The storms that rages from within

Three times thunder, blood runs cold

Got this wound on my soul Down on Hell's Half Acre and again

Walkin' on fire, come again

Trouble in the wasteland

Down on Hell's Half Acre and again Oh, back in the land where buffalo roam

Oh, is this my home

She said, "You've changed, you're not the same"

Clouds of napalm and the opium

The damage was already done Down on Hell's Half Acre and again

Shakin' with fever and again

Rumble in the jungle

Oh, down on Hell's Half Acre Oh, down on Hell's Half Acre

Walkin' on fire

We got trouble in the wasteland

Oh, down on Hell's Half Acre and again