Kunci: B minor•
Intro 1
Bm
G
Em
F#sus4
F#
Bm
F#
Verse 1
Bm
I got a letter from L.B.J
Em
It said, "This is your lucky day"
Bm
F#
It's time to put your khaki
Bm
F#
trousers on
Bm
Though it may seem very queer
Em
We've got no jobs to give you here
Bm
F#
Bm
So we are sending you to Vietnam
Verse 2
G
D
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Em
Bm
Have no fear of escalation
B
I am trying everyone to please
G
D
Though it isn't really war
Em
Bm
We're sending fifty thousand more
F#
To help save Vietnam from the
Bm
F#
Bm
Vietnamese
Verse 3
Em
I jumped off the old troop ship And
sank in mud up to my hips
Bm
F#
I cussed until the captain
Bm
F#
called me down
Bm
Never mind how hard it's raining
Em
Think of all the ground we're gaining
Bm
F#
Just don't take one step
Verse 4
G
D
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Em
Bm
Have no fear of escalation
F#
Bm
B
I am trying everyone to please
G
D
Though it isn't really war
Em
Bm
We're sending fifty thousand more
F#
Bm
To help save Vietnam from the
F#
Bm
F#
Bm
Vi etnamese
Verse 5
Em
Every night the local gentry Slip
out past the sleeping sentry
Bm
F#m
F#
Bm
F#
They go to join the old V see
Bm
In their nightly little dramas
Em
They put on their black pajamas
Bm
F#
Bm
And come lobbing mortar shells at me
Verse 6
G
D
When Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Em
Bm
Have no fear of escalation
F#
Bm
B
I am trying everyone to please
G
D
Though it isn't really war
Em
Bm
We're sending fifty thousand more
F#
To help save Vietnam from the
Bm
F#
Bm
F#
Bm
Vietnamese
Verse 7
Em
We go round in helicopters
Like a bunch of big grasshoppers
Bm
Searching for the Viet Con
F#
Bm
F#
g in vain
Bm
They left a note that they had gone
Em
They had to get down to Saigon
Bm
F#
Bm
Their government positions to maintain
Verse 8
G
D
And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Em
Bm
Have no fear of escalation
F#
Bm
B
I am trying everyone to please
G
D
Though it isn't really war
Em
Bm
We're sending fifty thousand more
F#
To help save Vietnam from the
Bm
B
F#
Bm
F#
Vietnamese
Verse 9
Bm
Well, here I sit in this rice paddy
Em
Wondering about Big Daddy
Bm
F#
And I know that Lyndon
Bm
F#
loves me so
Bm
Yet how sadly I remember
Em
Way back yonder in November
Bm
F#
Bm
When he said I'd never have to go
Verse 10
G
D
And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Em
Bm
Have no fear of escalation
F#
Bm
B
I am trying everyone to please
G
D
Though it isn't really war
Em
Bm
We're sending fifty thousand more
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