Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation chords by
Tom Paxton

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Key: B minor

Intro 1

Bm

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G

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Em

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F#sus4

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F#

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Bm

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F#

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Verse 1
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I   got a letter from L.B.J
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It said, "This is your lucky day"
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It's time to put your khaki
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trousers on
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Though it may seem very queer
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We've got no jobs to give you here
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So we are sending you to Vietnam

Verse 2
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Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of  escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from the
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Vietnamese

Verse 3
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I jumped off the old troop ship And
sank in mud up to my hips
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I cussed until the captain
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called me down
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Never mind how hard it's raining
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Think of all the ground we're gaining
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Just don't take one step
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outside of town

Verse 4
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Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of  escalation
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B B 2
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from the
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Vi  etnamese

Verse 5
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Every night the local gentry Slip
out past the sleeping sentry
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They go to join  the old V see
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In  their nightly little dramas
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They put on their black pajamas
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And come lobbing mortar shells at me

Verse 6
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When Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of  escalation
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B B 2
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from the
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F# F# 2
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Vietnamese

Verse 7
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We go round in helicopters
Like a bunch of big grasshoppers
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Searching for the Viet Con
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g   in vain
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They left a note that they had gone
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They had to get down to Saigon
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Their government positions to maintain

Verse 8
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of  escalation
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B B 2
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from the
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B B 2
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F# F# 2
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Bm Bm 2
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Vietnamese

Verse 9
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Well, here I sit in this rice paddy
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Wondering about Big Daddy
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And I know that Lyndon
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loves me so
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Yet how sadly I remember
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Way back yonder in November
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When he said I'd never have to go

Verse 10
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of  escalation
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B B 2
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam
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from the Vietnamese

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