Talking Ben Tre chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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I'm going to tell you a little story
from across the sea,
about a little town they call Ben Tree,
sitting on a riverbank,
peaceful as you please,
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till he got caught between two ideologies,
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big confrontation,
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western civilization at stake.
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Down by the river come marching along
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the local chapter of the Viet Cong,
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marched into town with their flags a -waving,
it was easy to see that town needed saving,
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they walked in like they lived there.
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Our boys saw what was going on,
they called the general on the telephone,
which ones are the enemy?
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We can't tell, I don't know either,
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blow them all to hell,
don't make that much difference.
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Once you've seen one,
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you've seen them all.
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Well, the general watched the fighting all day,
said, We've got to save this town some way.
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It calls for a humanitarian act.
I'll order a full -scale bombing attack.
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Big bombs, napalm,
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just like the Fourth of July.
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Well, them houses burned all day long.
Boy, we really cooked them kong.
and also about 2 ,000 others.
But they was just old folks, children,
and mothers.
Good thing we saved them.
Some of them kids
might have grown up to be
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communists.
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When the smoke cleared away,
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that town was clean.
No Viet Cong were to be seen.
Just 30 ,000 grateful folk,
glad we done right,
each one looking for a
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place to spend the night.
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Not much to do in the evening
for entertainment
when your house is burning down.
Guess they stood around
singing the Star Spangled Banner.