Vietnam Blues

Album: There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (1965)
Charted: 127
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  • I was out on the leave at the time just duckin' the fog nosin' around like a hungry dog
    In that crazy place called Washington DC
    I saw a crowd of people on the White House lawn all carrying signes about VietNam
    So I went over to see what was goin' on
    It was a strange looking bunch but then I never could understand some people
    Oh a fellow came to me with a list in his hand he said we're gatherin' names to send
    The telegram of sympathy then he handed me a pen
    I said I reckon this is goin' to kids and wives
    My friends over there who're givin' their lives
    He said ah ah buddy this is goin' to Ho-Chi-Min
    I said Ho-Chi who he said Ho-Chi-Min people's leader North VietNam
    Oh I wasn't really sure I was hearin' him right
    I though I'd better move before I got in a fight
    Cause my ears were hurtin' and my ball started hit my lick
    Then I thought of another telegram that I've just read
    Tellin' my buddy's wife that her husband was dead
    It wasn't too long till I was feelin' downright sick
    Another held the sign that said we won't fight
    I thought to myself boy ain't that right
    To leave a lot of our soldiers die instead
    I said it's a shame that every man who ever died up there that far off land
    Was dyin' for that you wouldn't have to wake up dead
    Course he looked at me like I was kinda crazy just another warmonger
    Oh I left that place and I went downtown and hit first bar that I'd found
    To cool myself off and pacify my brain
    You see I was on orders to VietNam little old place just north to Saigon
    Had about an hour to catch myself a plane
    So all I mean to say is I don't like dyin' either but man I ain't gonna crawl Writer/s: KRISTOFFER KRISTOFFERSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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