Talking Vietnam
Sailing over to Vietnam
Southeast Asian Birmingham
Well training is the word we use
Nice word to have in case we lose
Training a million Vietnames
To fight for the wrong government and the American Way
Well they put me in a barracks hous
Just across the way from Laos
They said you're pretty safe when the troops deplo
But don't turn your back on your house bo
When they ring the gong, watch out for the Viet-Cong
Well the sergeant said it's time to trai
So I climbed aboard my helicopter plane
We flew above the battle groun
A sniper tried to shoot us down
He must have forgotten, we're only trainees
Them Commies never fight fair
Friends the very next day we trained some mor
We burned some villages down to the floor
Yes we burned out the jungles far and wide
Made sure those red apes had no place left to hide
Threw all the people in relocation camps
Under lock and key, made damn sure they're free
Well I walked through the jungle and around the ben
Who should I meet but President Diem
Said you're fighting to keep Vietnam fre
For good old de-em-moc-ra-cy (Diem-ocracy)
That means rule by one famil
And 15,000 American troops, give or take a fe
Thousand
American
Troops
He said: "I was a fine old Christian ma
Ruling this backward Buddhist land
Well it ain't much but what the hec
It sure beats hell out of Chiang Kai-she
I'm the power elite.Me and the 7th fleet."
He said: "meet my sister, Madam Nhu
The sweetheart of Dien Bien Phu"
He said: "Meet my brothers, meet my aunt
With the government that doesn't take a chance
Families that slay together, stay together."
Said: "If you want to stay you'll have to pay
Over a million dollars a day
But it's worth it all, don't you see
If you loose the country you'll still have me
Me and Syngman Rhee, Chiang Kai-shek, Madam Nhu
Like I said on _Meet the Press
'I regret that I have but one country to give for my life.'"
Well now old Dien is gone and dea
All the new leaders are anti-Red
Yes they're pro-American, freedom sensation
Against Red China, the United Nations
Now all the news commentators and the CI
are saying, "Thank God for coincidence."
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