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Album: Miscellaneous (2009)
Artists: Dave Dudley

  1. Cowboy Boots (1963)
  2. Keep On Trucking (1973)
  3. Last Day In The Mines (1964)
  4. Mad (1964)
  5. Me And Old CB (1976)
  6. One More Mile (1969)
  7. Six Days On The Road (1963)
  8. Truck Drivin' Son-Of-A-Gun (1965)
  9. Two Six Packs Away (1965)
  10. Vietnam Blues (1966)


Dave Dudley
Miscellaneous
Vietnam Blues (1966)
I was on leave at the time just ducking the fog
Nosing around like a hungry dog
In that crazy place called Washington DC
I saw a crowd of people on the White House lawn
All carrying signs about Vietnam
So I went over to see what was going on

It was a strange looking bunch but then I never could understand some people

Well a fella came to me with a list in his hand
He said we’re gathering names to send a telegram
Of sympathy but he handed me a pen
I said I reckon this is going to the kids and the wives
Of my friends over there who have given their lives
And he said uh-uh buddy this is going to Ho-Chi-min

I said Ho-Chi-who? He said Ho-Chi-Min people’s leader North Vietnam

Well I wasn’t real sure I was hearing him right
But I thought I better move before I got in a fight
Cause my ears were hurting and my pulse started hitting a lick
Then I thought about another telegram that I just read
Telling my buddy’s wife that her husband was dead
And it wasn’t too long before I was feeling down right sick

Another held a sign that said we won’t fight
And I said boy ain’t that right
You’d rather let a soldier die instead
I said it’s a shame that every man
Who ever died up there in that far off land?
Is dying so you won’t have to wake up dead

Course he looked at me like I was crazy just another war monger

Well I left that place and I went downtown
Hit the first bar that I found
Cool myself off pacify my brain
You see I was on orders to Vietnam
Little old place just north of Saigon
Had about an hour to catch myself a plane
So all I mean to say is I don’t like dying either
But man I ain’t gonna crawl
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