Key: C major
Verse 1
Bbm
Ab
Gb
Bbm
Db
Gb
Why does
Saigon never sleep at night?
Db
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?
Ab
Gb
How can I feel good when
nothing's right?
Fm
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?
Ebm
It's Viet nam
You don't give answers,
Ab
Ebm
Ab
do you, friend?
Absus4
Ab
Just questions that don't
Absus4
Ab
ever en d
Db
Why, God, why today?
Bbm
Gb
I'm all through here, on my way
Bbm
Ebm
There's nothing left here
that I'll miss
Absus4
That's why send me now,
Ab
Absus4
Ab
a night like this
Gb
Who is this girl in a rusty bed?
Db
Why am I back in a filthy room?
Gb
Why is her voice ringing in my head?
Fm
Why am I high on a cheap perfume,
Vietnam?
Ebm
Hey look, I mean you no offense
Ab
Absus4
But why does noth ing
Db
Absus4
Ab
here make sense?
Db
Why? God, show your hand
Bbm
Gb
Bbm
Why can't one guy understand?
Ebm
I've been with girls who
know much more
Absus4
I never felt con
Ab
Absus4
Ab
fused be fore
E
Why God? What's your plan?
Dbm
I can't help her
A
C#m
A
No one can I like my memories
F#m
as they were
Bsus4
B
Ab
But now I leave remembering her
Gb
Db
E
D
G
A
Asus4
A
D
When I went home before,
no one talked of the war
Bm
Or what they knew from TV
D
F#m
Didn't have a thing to do with me
D
Howlin' back and re -up
Sure Saigon is corrupt
Bm
D
It felt better to be here
B
Driving for the embassy
Esus4
Em
Cause here if you can pull a string
Asus4
A guy like me lives like a king
Bb
Just as long as you don't believe
Ebm
Ebsus4
Eb
Db
anything
Cm
B
Eb
Why, God, why this face?
Cm
Ab
Cm
Why such beauty in this place?
Fm
I like my memories as they were,
Bbsus4
but now I live remembering her,
Bb
Bbsus4
just her.
Outro 1
Eb
Cm
Ab
Ab
Eb
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