Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation
Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

Transpose

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  • F

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  • Esus4

  • E

  • C

  • A

  • Em

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    • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    I 
    got 
    a letter 
    from 
    L.B.J 

    It 
    said, 
    "This 
    is 
    your 
    lucky 
    day" 

    It's 
    time 
    to 
    put 
    your khaki 

    trousers 
    on 

    Though 
    it may 
    seem 
    very 
    queer 

    We've 
    got 
    no 
    jobs 
    to give 
    you 
    here 

    So we 
    are 
    sending 
    you 
    to 
    Viet
    nam 

    Verse 2
    Lyndon 
    Johnson 
    told 
    the 
    nation 

    Have 
    no fear 
    of 
    escalation 

    I am 
    trying 
    everyone 
    to please 

    Though 
    it 
    isn't 
    really 
    war 

    We're send
    ing 
    fifty 
    thou
    sand 
    more 

    To help 
    save 
    Vietnam 
    from 
    the 

    Viet
    namese 

    Verse 3
    I jumped 
    off 
    the 
    old troop 
    ship 
    And 

    sank 
    in 
    mud 
    up 
    to my 
    hips 

    I 
    cussed 
    until 
    the 
    captain 

    called 
    me down 

    Never 
    mind 
    how 
    hard 
    it's 
    raining 

    Think 
    of all 
    the ground 
    we're 
    gaining 

    Just 
    don't 
    take 
    one 
    step 

    outside 
    of town 

    Verse 4
    Lyndon 
    Johnson 
    told 
    the 
    nation 

    Have 
    no 
    fear 
    of 
    escalation 

    I am 
    trying 
    everyone 
    to please 

    Though 
    it 
    isn't 
    really 
    war 

    We're send
    ing 
    fifty 
    thou
    sand 
    more 

    To 
    help 
    save 
    Viet
    nam 
    from 
    the 

    Vi
    etnamese 

    Verse 5
    Every night 
    the local 
    gentry 
    Slip 

    out 
    past 
    the sleeping 
    sentry 

    They 
    go 
    to 
    join 
    the old 
    V see 

    In 
    their nightly 
    little 
    dramas 

    They put 
    on 
    their 
    black 
    pajamas 

    And 
    come 
    lobbing 
    mortar 
    shells 
    at 
    me 

    Verse 6
    When 
    Lyndon 
    Johnson 
    told 
    the 
    nation 

    Have 
    no 
    fear 
    of 
    escalation 

    I 
    am 
    trying 
    everyone 
    to please 

    Though 
    it 
    isn't 
    really 
    war 

    We're send
    ing 
    fifty 
    thou
    sand 
    more 

    To 
    help 
    save 
    Viet
    nam 
    from 
    the 

    Viet
    namese 

    Verse 7
    We 
    go 
    round 
    in 
    helicopters 

    Like 
    a bunch 
    of 
    big 
    grasshoppers 

    Searching 
    for 
    the 
    Viet 
    Con

    g 
    in 
    vain 

    They left 
    a 
    note 
    that 
    they 
    had 
    gone 

    They 
    had 
    to get 
    down 
    to 
    Saigon 

    Their 
    government 
    posi
    tions 
    to main
    tain 

    Verse 8
    And 
    Lyndon 
    Johnson 
    told 
    the 
    nation 

    Have 
    no 
    fear 
    of 
    escalation 

    I am 
    trying 
    everyone 
    to please 

    Though 
    it 
    isn't 
    really 
    war 

    We're send
    ing 
    fifty 
    thou
    sand 
    more 

    To 
    help 
    save 
    Viet
    nam 
    from 
    the 

    Vietnamese 

    Verse 9
    Well, 
    here 
    I sit 
    in 
    this 
    rice 
    paddy 

    Wondering 
    about 
    Big 
    Daddy 

    And 
    I 
    know 
    that Lyn
    don 

    loves 
    me so 

    Yet how 
    sadly 
    I 
    remember 

    Way 
    back 
    yonder 
    in 
    November 

    When he 
    said 
    I'd 
    never 
    have 
    to 
    go 

    Verse 10
    And 
    Lyndon 
    Johnson 
    told 
    the 
    nation 

    Have 
    no 
    fear 
    of 
    escalation 

    I am 
    trying 
    every
    one 
    to please 

    Though 
    it 
    isn't 
    really 
    war 

    We're send
    ing 
    fifty 
    thousand 
    more 

    To 
    help 
    save 
    Vietnam 

    from 
    the Vietnamese 

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