This is My Rifle - Original Vietnam War Song by Maysey video free download

This is a song I wrote back in 1999. It's off my 1st CD titled "At This Point in My Life" and can be found here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/maysey This is also my first You Tube video using still shots to represent a ballad I wrote about the effects of war, and how those images still played out many years after returning home.

This is My Rifle

Words and Music by Mark Maysey

(verse)

well back in sixty nine

I didn't have a care

before they called my number

I chopped off all my hair

said goodbye to Mama

Dad and Uncle Dan

boarded an airplane

and headed off for Nam

(verse)

well he called us to attention

when we stepped off that plane

Checked us off a list

as he called out our names

then he picked up his rifle

and raised it in the air

grabbed his crotch

with his other hand

as we all stood and stared

he said...

(chorus)

this is my rifle

this is my gun

one is for killing

the others for fun

so until this war is over

or until your time is done

this is your rifle

and this one is your gun

(verse)

well thirty years have passed

since I stepped off that plane

the nightmares haven't ended

and neither has the pain

I've drank my share of liquor

and smoked my share of grass

but I can't unload the memories

or these few words from my past

(chorus No. 2)

this is my rifle

this is my gun

one is for killing

the others for fun

so until this war is over

or until my time is done

this is my rifle

and this one is my gun

(verse)

well a dear friend of mine

finally called it quits

they found him one cold morning

laying in a ditch

a bullet through his brain

his rifle at his side

and one old rusted dog tag

dated nineteen sixty nine

verse

when they turned his body over

they found his written note

it wasn't but a few lines

but the last he ever wrote

and when they laid him in his grave

on that cold December day

I took those words he'd written

and I began to play

(repeat 2nd chorus)

All rights to this song can be purchased for $250,000 US dollars. My wife of 30 years and I run a very small and humble organization. We take care of a few local folks by providing assistance with nutritional meals, helping them shop for groceries, taking them to doctors and at least twice weekly take them out to have a little fun. Our time is often in short order with so many things to do, but we wouldn't have it any other way. There is no greater service than when you lend yourself and time to others to help them meet their daily and basic needs. And the plus side is, you feel good inside at the end of each day just knowing you made a difference in a few peoples life's. There is a handicap couple that's been married for 30 years now and my wife and I have been seeing to their daily needs for well over 15 of them. This nice couple we're just a few days away from being broken up and sent to homes prior to our intervention, they now live peacefully in their own little place. My wife is the true angel here as she finds true joy in doing for others, she loves cooking and taking them shopping and even doing their laundry. I could go on and on with many stories of what my wife has done for others, and you know what she never buys anything new for herself, it's all from thrift shops and hand me downs. The sale of this song would only enhance our humble little organization here, we call it "The Maysey Ranch".

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your kind words, they truly do mean a lot.

Namaste,

Mark and Noy Maysey