Key: C major
Verse 1
Cm
Bb
Ab
Cm
Eb
Ab
Why does
Saigon never sleep at night?
Eb
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?
Bb
Ab
How can I feel good when
nothing's right?
Gm
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?
Fm
It's Vietnam
You don't give answers,
Bb
Fm
Bb
do you, friend?
Bbsus4
Bb
Just questions that don't
Bbsus4
Bb
ever en d
Eb
Why, God, why today?
Cm
Ab
I'm all through here, on my way
Cm
Fm
There's nothing left here
that I'll miss
Bbsus4
That's why send me now,
Bb
Bbsus4
Bb
a night like this
Ab
Who is this girl in a rusty bed?
Eb
Why am I back in a filthy room?
Ab
Why is her voice ringing in my head?
Gm
Why am I high on a cheap perfume,
Vietnam?
Fm
Hey look, I mean you no offense
Bb
Bbsus4
But why does noth ing
Eb
Bbsus4
Bb
here make sense?
Eb
Why? God, show your hand
Cm
Ab
Cm
Why can't one guy understand?
Fm
I've been with girls who
know much more
Bbsus4
I never felt con
Bb
Bbsus4
Bb
fused be fore
Gb
Why God? What's your plan?
Ebm
I can't help her
B
D#m
B
No one can I like my memories
G#m
as they were
Dbsus4
Db
Bb
But now I leave remembering her
Ab
Eb
F#
E
A
B
Bsus4
B
E
When I went home before,
no one talked of the war
C#m
Or what they knew from TV
E
G#m
Didn't have a thing to do with me
E
Howlin' back and re -up
Sure Saigon is corrupt
C#m
E
It felt better to be here
C#
Driving for the embassy
F#sus4
F#m
Cause here if you can pull a string
Bsus4
A guy like me lives like a king
C
Just as long as you don't believe
Fm
Fsus4
F
Eb
anything
Dm
Db
F
Why, God, why this face?
Dm
Bb
Dm
Why such beauty in this place?
Gm
I like my memories as they were,
Csus4
but now I live remembering her,
C
Csus4
just her.
Outro 1
F
Dm
Bb
Bb
F
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