"Got Drunk"

"Got Drunk" Courtesy of Harvey Nichols
Email: harvey@naropa.edu

Joined the army.
'Cruiter said "ASA all the way".
So away I went.

Sobered up! In Leonard Wood!!
What the crap!
Dickhead! clean this.... clean that.
Run here ...... run there.
Gi'me 50.... gi'me a hunert.
Gi'me, gi'me, gi'me ....
Dumb sergeant's.....Dumber kid Lieutenant's.
How the hell did I get here!
Real suffrin' - pushupss and hangover's...Argghh.
Got out.

Got in - to Ethiopia that is.
Warm sun, cheap booze, cheap wimin...
No one hollerin'
Life is good ... once agin...ahhh.
For 18 months: Got paid - got drunk - got laid To the end of the month,
The same refrain; got drunk, got laid.
Ran out of money - hocked my lighter - got laid.
hocked my whatever - got laid.
Next month - same'o same'o

Till I found my "self" in Korea. "It" was do'in the same old thing.
Repeatin' refrain from above.
Got paid, got drunk, got laid.
Though on occasion, I must confess,
That first I got laid and then the rest.

Now i don't want you to think.
   I'm a total hedonist.....
There where other moment's
   of spice in my ASA life..
Slot machines and Gin Rummy, and poker,
   and getting drunk........
Takin' the night watch with a bottle of gin,
   and getting drunk........
Hangin' out at the Oasis, eatin' raw egg's,
   watching Casdorph drink from a toilet plunger,
   and gettin' drunk.
Oh yeah - sometimes I would go to this compound.
   Barb wire, etc., around it. Did something called
   work. Left and got drunk.
And of course for fun, after eatin some beans,    standing by an Ethi... lettin' one rip.....
   TATAWA! .....Away he would fly.

Then there was the Red Sea,
Made it there once, maybe twice.
But just couldn't see spending all that time
   travlin' just to...... get laid and get drunk.

Good times - good people - wouldn't mind going
back for a year or two right now.

ASA All The Way!
(But I can do without that damn boot camp)