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