Eggs crack slow on blackened steel plate
Orders stack like artillery freight
Bacon pops like distant cannon fire
Night shift burns on borrowed telephone wire
Mud and grease on weary working hands
Thunder shakes the wide prairie lands
Helmet rests in foreign red clay
Diner neon guides the lost way
Boots sink deep in frozen trench ground
Short order grill the only sound
Letters folded in wool breast pocket
Toast burns black like morning sky rocket
Mud and grease on weary working hands
Thunder shakes the wide prairie lands
Helmet rests in foreign red clay
Diner neon guides the lost way
Pie sits cooling on the wooden sill
Shrapnel tears the quiet morning still
Regulars ask for extra brown gravy
Soldiers dream of home sweet and brave-ly
Mud and grease on weary working hands
Thunder shakes the wide prairie lands
Helmet rests in foreign red clay
Diner neon guides the lost way
Radio plays Hank Williams old songs
Artillery joins right in along
Ketchup stains on leather combat boots
Truth is stranger than the evening news
Dawn breaks greasy on the flat top grill
No more shells no more combat kill
Helmet hangs on coat rack rusty nail
Coffee keeps the dark details pale
Mud and grease on weary working hands
Thunder shakes the wide prairie lands
Helmet rests in foreign red clay
Diner neon guides the lost way
Mud and grease on weary working hands
Thunder shakes the wide prairie lands
Coffee cup and rifle barrel gleam
Peace tastes like a short order dream