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Joan Baez
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(Music by Joan Baez, Lyrics by Nina Duscheck)
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Farewell my wistful Saigon bride
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I'm going out to stem the tide
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A tide that never saw the seas
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It flows through jungles, round the trees
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Some say it's yellow, some say red
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It will not matter when we're dead
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How many dead men will it take
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To build a dike that will not break?
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How many children must we kill
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Before we make the waves stand still?
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Though miracles come high today
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We have the wherewithal to pay
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It takes them off the streets you know
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To places they would never go alone
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It gives them useful trades
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The lucky boys are even paid
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Men die to build their Pharoah's tombs
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And still and still the teeming wombs
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How many men to conquer Mars
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How many dead to reach the stars?
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Farewell my wistful Saigon bride
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I'm going out to stem the tide
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A tide that never saw the seas
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It flows through jungles, round the trees
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Some say it's yellow, some say red
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It will not matter when we're dead
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© 1967 Robbins Music Corporation and Chandos Music (ASCAP)
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Rights throughout the world controlled by Robbins Music Corporation
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