Key: D
Introduction:
D C G
Down in Eutaw, Alabama in 1965
D C G
A young man 'bout 21, no different than you or I
Am D
He’s catchin’ catfish, and gettin’ drunk
Am D
But Uncle Sam called, he called him up
D G
Sent him out to Vietnam
Am
That young man
D
Got his life turned upside down
Turned his smile into a frown
G
For an ideal he didn’t even know about
D C G
He was gamblin’ at the wagon when that army man showed up
D
And he flashed that pen and paper
C G
And ol’ Flukie he signed up
Am D
There’s gonna be a big time in the jungle
Am
Gonna be a firefight
D
Gonna be a rumble
G
Send me out to Vietnam
Am
I’ll fight ten men
D
I got nothin’ left in the States for me
I wanna see the world you see
G
To fight for an ideal I know nothing about
Instrumental
D C G
Oh the drop point was dusty and the drill sergeant was loud
D C G
And he could not see the corpses for the ragin’ dust cloud
Am D
Grab your duffle bags, head to the checkpoint
Am D
Welcome to Vietnam, boys, you’re in for a hell of a fight
G
Take it from the ones who know
Am
The army moves slow
D
Hurry up and wait, don’t sleep late
And learn to hate your brother
G
Before you hate your foe
D C G
On patrol out in the rice fields, them choppers flew low
D C G
Glancing for the hand signal to tell you where to go
Am
Then the bombs started fallin’
D
And they pounded his brain
And he thought about Eutaw and who was to blame
G
For sendin’ him to Vietnam