Key: C major
Verse 1
Bm
A
G
Bm
D
G
Why does
Saigon never sleep at night?
D
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?
A
G
How can I feel good when
nothing's right?
F#m
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?
Em
It's Vietnam
You don't give answers,
A
Em
A
do you, friend?
Asus4
A
Just questions that don't
Asus4
A
ever en d
D
Why, God, why today?
Bm
G
I'm all through here, on my way
Bm
Em
There's nothing left here
that I'll miss
Asus4
That's why send me now,
A
Asus4
A
a night like this
G
Who is this girl in a rusty bed?
D
Why am I back in a filthy room?
G
Why is her voice ringing in my head?
F#m
Why am I high on a cheap perfume,
Vietnam?
Em
Hey look, I mean you no offense
A
Asus4
But why does noth ing
D
Asus4
A
here make sense?
D
Why? God, show your hand
Bm
G
Bm
Why can't one guy understand?
Em
I've been with girls who
know much more
Asus4
I never felt con
A
Asus4
A
fused be fore
F
Why God? What's your plan?
Dm
I can't help her
Bb
Dm
Bb
No one can I like my memories
Gm
as they were
Csus4
C
A
But now I leave remembering her
G
D
F
Eb
Ab
Bb
Bbsus4
Bb
Eb
When I went home before,
no one talked of the war
Cm
Or what they knew from TV
Eb
Gm
Didn't have a thing to do with me
Eb
Howlin' back and re -up
Sure Saigon is corrupt
Cm
Eb
It felt better to be here
C
Driving for the embassy
Fsus4
Fm
Cause here if you can pull a string
Bbsus4
A guy like me lives like a king
B
Just as long as you don't believe
Em
Esus4
E
D
anything
C#m
C
E
Why, God, why this face?
C#m
A
C#m
Why such beauty in this place?
F#m
I like my memories as they were,
Bsus4
but now I live remembering her,
B
Bsus4
just her.
Outro 1
E
C#m
A
A
E
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