[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 1]
I was a young man of 16 years
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
Me mother had begged me not to go
But me heart belongs to the rifle and the road
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)

[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 2]
Thе empire made a gravе mistake
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
By taking a gift not meant to harm
Their war machines got a glowing lucky charm
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)
[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 3]
Then one dark day in Somerton
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
The people said they could take no more
So the streets ran red, there were bodies by the store
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)

[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 4]
As a private in the service I made my stand
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
We marched halfway to Myrtleglade
And we set up camp by the river in the shade
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)
[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 5]
Me regiment awoke to the flash of blue
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
Those mixers took what they could find
'Twas the life of a sister and the leg I left behind
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)

[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn day

[Verse 6]
It's been a long year since I got back home
(Oway, oway, oway-oh)
This stump may ache when'er it rains
But the songs of rebellion take away my pain
(Ay, oway, oway-ee)
[Chorus]
Take one step, make another wish
Die tonight or it's the long way home
Fire or run when you hear the other comin'
Rise to fight another damn

[Outro]
Rise to fight another damn
Rise to fight another damn day