Name: Happy To Be Alive Day
Duration: P00H03M13S
Description: Written and recorded at the Operation Song retreat in collaboration with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in November of 2019.

Chuck Jones - Happy To Be Alive Day

from Dept. of Veterans Affairs, VISN 5 November 2019 by Operation Song

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Written and recorded at the Operation Song retreat in collaboration with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in November of 2019.

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Happy To Be Alive Day
Calvin Tildon/Chuck Jones

People ask me all the time about the smile on my face
So I tell ‘em ‘bout my time in Vietnam back in ‘68
When that Huey dropped me off in a hot LZ
There was angels from heaven watchin’ over me
When that Phantom rained fire on the enemy
That’s why December twenty-three will always be

My happy to be alive day
My lucky that I survived day
Ever since everything’s goin’ my way
Every day, every day
Is my happy to be alive day

When I got back to the world my Girl was still waitin’ on me
We got married right away and started working on a family
Now it’s hard to believe fifty years have gone by
Now and then my grandkids ask me why
I’m always walking around with a smile on my face
I just have to laugh and say

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from Dept. of Veterans Affairs, VISN 5 November 2019, released November 29, 2019
Written by Veteran Calvin Tildon with Operation Song writer Chuck Jones.

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