Key: C major
Verse 1
C#m
B
A
C#m
E
A
Why does
Saigon never sleep at night?
E
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?
B
A
How can I feel good when
nothing's right?
G#m
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?
F#m
It's Viet nam
You don't give answers,
B
F#m
B
do you, friend?
Bsus4
B
Just questions that don't
Bsus4
B
ever en d
E
Why, God, why today?
C#m
A
I'm all through here, on my way
C#m
F#m
There's nothing left here
that I'll miss
Bsus4
That's why send me now,
B
Bsus4
B
a night like this
A
Who is this girl in a rusty bed?
E
Why am I back in a filthy room?
A
Why is her voice ringing in my head?
G#m
Why am I high on a cheap perfume,
Vietnam?
F#m
Hey look, I mean you no offense
B
Bsus4
But why does noth ing
E
Bsus4
B
here make sense?
E
Why? God, show your hand
C#m
A
C#m
Why can't one guy understand?
F#m
I've been with girls who
know much more
Bsus4
I never felt con
B
Bsus4
B
fused be fore
G
Why God? What's your plan?
Em
I can't help her
C
Em
C
No one can I like my memories
Am
as they were
Dsus4
D
B
But now I leave remembering her
A
E
G
F
Bb
C
Csus4
C
F
When I went home before,
no one talked of the war
Dm
Or what they knew from TV
F
Am
Didn't have a thing to do with me
F
Howlin' back and re -up
Sure Saigon is corrupt
Dm
F
It felt better to be here
D
Driving for the embassy
Gsus4
Gm
Cause here if you can pull a string
Csus4
A guy like me lives like a king
Db
Just as long as you don't believe
F#m
F#sus4
F#
E
anything
D#m
D
F#
Why, God, why this face?
D#m
B
D#m
Why such beauty in this place?
G#m
I like my memories as they were,
C#sus4
but now I live remembering her,
C#
C#sus4
just her.
Outro 1
F#
D#m
B
B
F#
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