[BIRDLACE]
No-name schoolboy, awful green,
Trained, ordained as a mean Marine
Now they can't fuck with the tough, young buck
Cradlin' an M14
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Teach a gook to hold a gun
Serve your year and then you're done
Homeward bound and the boy gets crowned
As Cleveland's new fav'rite son

At the hometown hero's ticker tape parade
Cotton candy and lemonade

[THREE BEES]
It's a hometown hero's ticker tape parade

[BIRDLACE]
Can't get that at the penny arcade
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[THREE BEES]
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[BIRDLACE]
Main Street blocked all afternoon

[BERNSTEIN]
A band on hand with a marchin' tune

[BOLAND]
Your name is wailed

[BIRDLACE]
The blimp's unveiled

[BERNSTEIN]
Your face on a big balloon

[THREE BEES]
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[BOLAND]
Watchin' busty blondes compete,

[BIRDLACE/BERNSTEIN]
Ain't that sweet?

[BOLAND]
Drawin' claws like cats in heat
[BIRDLACE & BERNSTEIN]
Ooo yeah

[BERNSTEIN]
Let 'em fight to spend the night

[BOLAND]
And stain up that nice white sheet

[BIRDLACE & BERNSTEIN]
Yeah

[THREE BEES]
At the hometown hero's ticker tape parade

[BIRDLACE]
Tellin' tales of a brave brigade

[THREE BEES]
A hometown hero's ticker tape parade

[BERNSTEIN]
It's your time to shine

[BOLAND/BIRDLACE]
Time to get laid!
[THREE BEES]
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A hero don't get soft
A hero don't retreat
He's gonna get his way
'Cause he won't accept defeat
Guys like me and you,
We're heroes through and through[GIBBS, FECTOR & STEVENS]
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Oh[THREE BEES]
Semper Fi
Do or Die!

[BOLAND]
You're a goddamn hero

[GIBBS, FECTOR & STEVENS]
Can't you hear it, boys?

[BOLAND]
You're a goddamn hero

[GIBBS, FECTOR & STEVENS]
Can't you hear it
Comin', comin', comin', comin'

[BERNSTEIN]
I'm a goddamn hero!

[ALL EXCEPT BIRDLACE & BERNSTEIN]
Comin' comin' comin’

[ALL EXCEPT BIRDLACE]
At the hometown hero's ticker tape parade
No confetti for the boys who stayed
Hometown hero's ticker tape parade

You win a war,
You pick a wife,
You get respect
Your whole damn life

You're a hometown hero
Who gets a mother fuckin' ticker tape parade!

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