《Lyndon johnson told the nation(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Lyndon johnson told the nation (LP版) - Tom Paxton

[00:00:08] I got a letter from L B J

[00:00:10] It said this is your lucky day

[00:00:12] It's time to put your khaki trousers on

[00:00:16] Though it may seem very queer

[00:00:17] We've got no jobs to give you here

[00:00:19] So we are sending you to Viet Nam

[00:00:24] Lyndon Johnson told the nation

[00:00:25] "Have no fear of escalation

[00:00:27] I am trying everyone to please

[00:00:32] Though it isn't really war

[00:00:33] We're sending fifty thousand more

[00:00:35] To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese "

[00:00:40] I jumped off the old troop ship

[00:00:41] And sank in mud up to my hips

[00:00:43] I cussed until the captain called me down

[00:00:48] Never mind how hard it's raining

[00:00:49] Think of all the ground we're gaining

[00:00:51] Just don't take one step outside of town

[00:00:55] Lyndon Johnson told the nation

[00:00:57] "Have no fear of escalation

[00:00:59] I am trying everyone to please

[00:01:03] Though it isn't really war

[00:01:05] We're sending fifty thousand more

[00:01:07] To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese "

[00:01:14] Every night the local gentry

[00:01:15] Sneak out past the sleeping sentry

[00:01:17] They go to join the old VC

[00:01:21] In their nightly little dramas

[00:01:23] They put on their black pajamas

[00:01:25] And come lobbing mortar shells at me

[00:01:29] Lyndon Johnson told the nation

[00:01:31] "Have no fear of escalation

[00:01:33] I am trying everyone to please

[00:01:37] Though it isn't really war

[00:01:39] We're sending fifty thousand more

[00:01:41] To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese "

[00:01:47] We go round in helicopters

[00:01:49] Like a bunch of big grasshoppers

[00:01:51] Searching for the Viet Cong in vain

[00:01:55] They left a note that they had gone

[00:01:57] They had to get down to Saigon

[00:01:59] Their government positions to maintain

[00:02:03] Lyndon Johnson told the nation

[00:02:05] "Have no fear of escalation

[00:02:07] I am trying everyone to please

[00:02:11] Though it isn't really war

[00:02:13] We're sending fifty thousand more

[00:02:15] To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese "

[00:02:21] Well here I sit in this rice paddy

[00:02:23] Wondering about Big Daddy

[00:02:25] And I know that Lyndon loves me so

[00:02:29] Yet how sadly I remember

[00:02:31] Way back yonder in November

[00:02:33] When he said I'd never have to go

[00:02:37] Lyndon Johnson told the nation

[00:02:39] "Have no fear of escalation

[00:02:41] I am trying everyone to please

[00:02:45] Though it isn't really war

[00:02:47] We're sending fifty thousand more

[00:02:49] To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese "