Goodnight saigon

GOODNIGHT SAIGON

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We met as soul mates on paris Island. We left as inmates from an asylum.
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And we were sharp, as sharp as knives. And we were so gung ho to lay
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down our lives. We came in spastic like tameless horses, we left in plastic
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as numbered corpses. And we learned fast to travel light, our arms were
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heavy but our bellies were tight.

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We had no homefront, we had no soft soap. They send up Playboy, they
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gave us Bob Hope. We dug in deep, and shot on sight, and prayed to jesus
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christ with all of our might. We had no camras to shoot the landscape. We
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passed the hashpipe and played our doors tapes. And it was dark, so dark
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at night. And we held on to each other like brother to brother. We promised
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our mothers we'd write.

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And we would all go down together, we said we'd all go down together. Yes
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we would all go down together

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Remember Charlie, remember Baker. They left their childhood on every acre.
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and who was wrong, and who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the
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fight. We held the day in the palm of our hand. They ruled the night, and the
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night seemed to last as long as six weeks on paris Island. We held the coastline,
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they held the highlands. And they were sharp as sharp as knives. They heard the
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hum of our motors, they counted the rotors and waited for us to arive

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And we would all go down together, we said we'd all go down together. Yes we
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would all go down together