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Goodnight Saigon

Billy Joel


We met as soul mates
On Parris Island...
We left as inmates
From an asylum.
And we were sharp
As sharp as knives....
And we were so gung ho
To lay down our lives.
We came in spastic
Like tameless horses....
We left in plastic
As numbered corpses.
And we learned fast
To travel light...
Our arms were heavy
But our bellies were tight.
We had no home front
We had no soft soap....
They sent us Playboy
They gave us Bob Hope.
We dug in deep
And shot on sight....
And prayed to Jesus Christ
With all our might.
We had no cameras
To shoot the landscape...
We passed the hash pipe
And played our Doors tapes.
And it was dark
So dark at night....
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother....
We promised our mothers we'd write

And we would all go down together....
We said we'd all go down together.

Remember Charlie
Remember Baker...
They left their childhood
On every acre.
And who was wrong?
And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight!
We held the day
In the palm
Of our hand
They ruled the night
And the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks
On Parris Island.
We held the coastline
They held the highlands...
And they were sharp
As sharp as knives...
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors...
And waited for us to arrive.

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down  together
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