Key: C major
Verse 1
Dm
C
Bb
Dm
F
Bb
Why does
Saigon never sleep at night?
F
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?
C
Bb
How can I feel good when
nothing's right?
Am
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?
Gm
It's Vietnam
You don't give answers,
C
Gm
C
do you, friend?
Csus4
C
Just questions that don't
Csus4
C
ever en d
F
Why, God, why today?
Dm
Bb
I'm all through here, on my way
Dm
Gm
There's nothing left here
that I'll miss
Csus4
That's why send me now,
C
Csus4
C
a night like this
Bb
Who is this girl in a rusty bed?
F
Why am I back in a filthy room?
Bb
Why is her voice ringing in my head?
Am
Why am I high on a cheap perfume,
Vietnam?
Gm
Hey look, I mean you no offense
C
Csus4
But why does noth ing
F
Csus4
C
here make sense?
F
Why? God, show your hand
Dm
Bb
Dm
Why can't one guy understand?
Gm
I've been with girls who
know much more
Csus4
I never felt con
C
Csus4
C
fused be fore
Ab
Why God? What's your plan?
Fm
I can't help her
Db
Fm
Db
No one can I like my memories
Bbm
as they were
Ebsus4
Eb
C
But now I leave remembering her
Bb
F
Ab
F#
B
C#
C#sus4
C#
F#
When I went home before,
no one talked of the war
D#m
Or what they knew from TV
F#
A#m
Didn't have a thing to do with me
F#
Howlin' back and re -up
Sure Saigon is corrupt
D#m
F#
It felt better to be here
D#
Driving for the embassy
G#sus4
G#m
Cause here if you can pull a string
Dbsus4
A guy like me lives like a king
D
Just as long as you don't believe
Gm
Gsus4
G
F
anything
Em
Eb
G
Why, God, why this face?
Em
C
Em
Why such beauty in this place?
Am
I like my memories as they were,
Dsus4
but now I live remembering her,
D
Dsus4
just her.
Outro 1
G
Em
C
C
G
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