| 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
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| 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 the Vietnamese
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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
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| 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 the Vietnamese
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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 C
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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
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| When 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 the Vietnamese
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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
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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 the Vietnamese
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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
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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 the Vietnamese |