I'll do a talking blues, uh♪This is Talking Vietnam♪I wrote this for the aid of a young liberal songwriternamed Bob McNamara♪Vietnam is an island only 90 miles off our shores♪This song is dedicated to Johnson and all the liberals♪Sailing over to Vietnam, Southeast Asian BirminghamWell, training is the word we useNice word to have in case we lose♪Training a million VietnameseTo fight for the wrong government and the American way♪Well, they put me in a barracks houseJust across the way from LaosSaid, you're pretty safe when the troops deployBut don't turn your back on your house, boy♪When they ring the gongWatch out for the ***♪Oh, the sergeant said it's time to trainSo I climbed aboard in a helicopter planeWe flew above the battlegroundThe sniper tried to shoot us down♪He must have forgot we're only traineesThem commies never fight fairDirty yellow bastards♪Friends, the very next day we trained some moreWe burned some villages down to the floorYes, we burned down the jungles far and wideMade sure those red apes had no place left to hideThrew all the people in relocation campsUnder lock and keyMade damn sure they're freeLike me, eek!♪Well, I walked through the jungle around the bendI met a man who's in the meat for the ghost of President DiemHe said, you're fighting to keep Vietnam freeFor good old DiemocracyThat meansRuled by one familyAnd 15,000 American troopsGive or take a fewThousand American troopsHe said I was the final Christian manRuling this backward Buddhist landWell, it ain't muchBut what the heck, it sure beats hellOut of Chiang Kai-shekI was a power eliteIn the 7th Fleet♪He saidMeet my sister, Madame NhuThe sweetheart of Dien Bien PhuHe saidMeet my brothers, meet my auntsWith a government that doesn't take a chanceFamilies that slay togetherStay together♪He saidIf you want to stayYou may have to pay over a million dollars a dayBut it's worth it allNow don't you seeIf you lose the countryYou still have me, Dien Sigmund RheeChiang Kai-shek, Madame NhuFranco, Lyndon JohnsonLike I saidI meet the pressI regret that I have but one countryTo give for my lifeWell, the World GMIs gone and deadAll the new leaders are anti-radAnti-pro-American freedom sensationsAgainst red shine in the United NationsNow all the news commentatorsAnd the CIAAre sayingThank God for coincidence♪ApplauseApplauseApplauseApplauseApplause