Here Comes The Rooster

Howdy Doody boys and girls, yes it is a song by one of my favs bands Alice and Chains. As I listened after all these years I had to know what it was all about. "Rooster" was Cantrell's dad's nickname cause his hair stuck up in the back. He served in Vietnam, part of the 101 airborne, and their sleeve patch was a bald eagle. Their wasn't any bald eagles in Vietnam, and the closest the folks there could compare it to was a chicken, hence the VC called the American Warriors "Chicken Men". They would walk tall machine gun men, with their M60, and the muzzle flash was compared to the tail feathers of a rooster. Hence the words they come to snuff out the rooster, but they ain't killed him yet, cause he ain't going die. Now I know.