Might Be A Father

I just left my honeymoon and boarded jet.
Then off to Vietnam and new people I met.
My wife sent letters every day. She told me of news in things that she'd say.
There was a pause in the letters.. a week had gone by.
She isn't writing and I was asking why.
Then finally a letter came to me. My wife said a doctor she had gone to see.
She thought she might be expecting a bundle of joy.
Did I think I would like a girl or a boy.
It can't be, I'm just a kid, not ready for grownup stuff,
as I checked my gear, before going out into the jungle rough.
I guess I want a boy after all.. and started to feel ten feet tall.
The next letter I opened it quick after reading it I felt kind of sick.
False alarm she said about the baby and how was your day?
What? No baby, but my heart was set. What the hey.
Perhaps I'm too young for fatherhood.
As I listened to enemy sightings at the guard mount I stood.
I thought. I'm still too young to drink or vote but not too young for this gun to tote.
And go off into the jungle and play hide and seek.
And I haven't had a day off in nearly two weeks.
Maybe its better off this way after all.