The navy took my father,
most of my childhood years,
seems I was always waving goodbye.

He was just a fleeting dream,
So very rarely seen,
Out of the Corner of my eye.

But then I turned around one day
Fifteen years had gone
And it had been like living in a
Cold chisel song,

So I looked for men
Who would carry the abuse on
Because as a child I never learned that it was wrong.
I never learned that it was wrong.

Daughters of vietnam
Australian needed your daddys
Daughters of vietnam
American needed your daddys
It wasn't over when they stepped back on to shore
They needed your daddys but I know you needed them more.

Well they took away her daddy and they taught him to kill
Then they sent him off to Vientam to use his new skill
blahdedly blahblah
blah dedly blah

He strived his whole life to be all that he could be
He cried alone at night when he thought no one could see
It's because of men like him that our country is still free
But they never taught him just what a little girl needs
What a little girl needs.