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