Key: F major
Intro 1
F#
E
F#
E
D#m
C#m
D#m
C#m
B
E
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E
Verse 1
E
Saigon bride
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E
I'm going out to stem the tide
D#m
C#m
A tide that never saw the seas
D#m
C#m
Some say it's yellow, some say red
D#m
C#m
It will not matter when
B
D#m
we're dead
Verse 2
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E
How many dead men will it take
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E
To build a dike that will not break?
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C#m
How many children must we kill
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C#m
Before we make the waves stand
B
D#m
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E
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still?
E
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E
Though miracles come high today
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E
We have the wherewithal to pay
Verse 3
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C#m
It takes them off the streets, you know
D#m
C#m
D#m
To places they would never go alone
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C#m
B
D#m
The lucky boys are even paid
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E
Men die to build their Pharaoh's tombs
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E
And still, and still the teeming wombs
Verse 4
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C#m
How many men to conquer Mars?
D#m
C#m
How many dead to reach the
B
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E
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stars?
E
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E
Farewell, my wistful Saigon bride
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E
I'm going out to stem
the tide
A tide that never saw the seas
D#m
It flows through jungles, 'round the trees
D#m
C#m
B
It will not matter when we're dead
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ChordsF# E D#m C#m B
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