Key: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Just out of the
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infantry this morning,
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I had to pay my dues across the sea,
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But no one back in boot camp
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ever warned me,
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What the readjustment blues
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would do to me.
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"Welcome to Havannah",
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said the pilot,
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"We must have made a wrong
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turn on the way."
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"Let's buy some cigars
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and keep it quiet,
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If they don't know we're here
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we'll get away."
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Just as I had realized he was joking,
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I saw we were in Washington D.C.,
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'Cause there was all the pat
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riotic buildings.
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Just like I had seen them on T.V.
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It must have been a holiday,
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'cause there was this parade.
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People carried signs I couldn't read
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that they had made.
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'Till I got closer and my heart
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fell to my socks;
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There was a battle raging and
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The air was filled with teargas and rocks.
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There was the flag I'd fought
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against so often,
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The one I fought for hanging
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upside down,
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The wind was blowing hard,
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the dirt was flying,
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It made the city sky look
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dark and brown.
I saw a girl,
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she could have been my sister,
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Except her hair was long
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and in her face,
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She explained this was a
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demonstration,
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Against the war and for the
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human race.
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Now I've seen a lot of strange
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things in my travels,
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Cannibals, yes, and aliens galore,
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But I never thought I'd see
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so many people
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Saying we don't want your + + + war!
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The troops all had on uniforms
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Just like the one I'd worn,
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But they were all domestic and
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my duty chose war.
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They carried guns just like the
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ones across the sea,
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Except this time I was the citizen
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And they were pointing their guns at me,
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Yes, I was just a citizen and
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I was walking down the street,
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And it was just then that the
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Readjustment Blues
Outro 1
Got through to me.
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