Key: C
Introduction: C F C F
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Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
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Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
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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
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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 read
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"But Mistress Brown, your son is dead"
And it came from ...CHORUS
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Somebody please stop that war now! ...SOLO
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