Vietnam    (intro)    (midi)

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                            He…..y!

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Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam !

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Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam !

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1. Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam,

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    and this is what he had to say :

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    “Tell all my friends that I'll be coming home soon,

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    my time will be up sometime in June.

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    Don't forget,” he said,” to tell my sweet Mary,

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    her golden lips as sweet as cherries. And it came from + CHORUS

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2. It was just the next day his mother got a telegram,

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    it was addressed from Vietnam.

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    Now, Mistress Brown, she lives in the U.S.A.,

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    and this is what she wrote and said :

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    "Don't be alarmed," she told me, the telegram said,

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    "But Mistress Brown, your son is dead.” And it came from…

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 + CHORUS     + Somebody, please, stop that war now ! 

+ repeat verse 2  + CHORUS (2x) …

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Jimmy Cliff)