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Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon

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Binnengekomen in:	1983, week 2
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* The next song I'm gonna do, is a song that I wrote for my friends who had to go off and fight in Vietnam. They left as boys but they came back as old men. But they were the lucky ones because many of them didn't come back at all. This song is called "Goodnight Saigon".

We met as soulmates on Paris Island

We left as inmates from an asylum

And we were sharp, as sharp as knives

And we were so gong 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 homefront, 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 of 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

Chorus:

And we would all go down together

We said we'd all go down together

Yes we would 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 Paris Island

We held the coastline, they held the highland

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

Chorus.

Billy Joel Goodnight Saigon album cover

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