Paxton Tom - Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation, аккорды

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[Verse 1]
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I got a letter from L.b.J
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It said, "This is your lucky day"
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It's time to put your khaki trousers on
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Though it may seem very queer
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We've got no jobs to give you here
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So we are sending you to Vietnam [Chorus]
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending fifty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese [Verse 2]
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I jumped off the old troop ship
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And sank in mud up to my hips
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I cussed until the captain called me down
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Never mind how hard it's raining
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Think of all the ground we're gaining
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Just don't take one step outside of town [Chorus]
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending sixty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese [Verse 3]
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Every night the local gentry
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Slip out past the sleeping sentry
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They go to join the old V.
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In their nightly little dramas
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They put on their black pajamas
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And come lobbing mortar shells at me [Chorus]
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending seventy thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese [Verse 4]
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We go round in helicopters
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Like a bunch of big grasshoppers
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Searching for the Viet Cong in vain
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They left a note that they had gone
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They had to get down to Saigon
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Their government positions to maintain [Chorus]
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending eighty thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese [Verse 5]
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Well, here I sit in this rice paddy
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Wondering about Big Daddy
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And I know that Lyndon loves me so
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Yet how sadly I remember
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Way back yonder in November
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When he said I'd never have to go [Chorus]
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And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
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Have no fear of escalation
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I am trying everyone to please
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Though it isn't really war
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We're sending a hundred thousand more
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To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese

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