1460 Elder Street

I was waiting on a ship to Vietnam and me being the good time loving guy I am

I was looking for some female company I met a girl alone and lonesome just like me

We had coffee at a waterfront cafe she said her husband was a soldier far away

And she talked about her long nights all alone

And the way she's fought temptation since he's gone

1460 Elder Street is where she took me

And I never knew that love could be so sweet

Then she promised me that when the war was over

I'd have a home at 1460 Elder Street

[ fiddle ]

Two months later I was on patrol one day

When a hand grenade fell not ten feet away

I watched as one brave man gave all that he could give

He fell across it gave his life that I might live

I found a crumpled tear stained letter in his coat

And I read the Dear John Letter his wife wrote

He had nothing left for livin' for I guess

I thought I die when I saw her return address

1460 Elder Street still drives me crazy

And sometimes at night we find it hard to sleep

Could it be the ones who killed him