Goodnight Saigon piano leadsheet with chords

We met as soul mates on Parris Island.

We left as inmates from an asylum.

And we were sharp,

as sharp as knives,

and we were so gungho to lay down our lives.

We came in spastic like tameless horses.

We left in plastic as numbered corpses.

And we learned fast

to travel light,

our arms were so gungho to lay down our lives.

We came in heavy but our bellies were tight.

We had no home front, we had no soft soap.

They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope.

We dug in deep

and shot on sight,

and prayed to Jesus Christ with all of our might.

We had no cam'ras to shoot the landscape.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

And it was dark,

so dark at night.

And we held on to each other like brother to brother.

We promised our mothers we'd write.

And we would all go down together.

We said we'd all go down together.

Yes, we would all go down together.

Remember Charlie, remember Baker, they left their childhood on ev'ry acre.

And who was wrong?

And who was right?

It didn't matter in the thick of the fight.

We held the day in the palm of our hand.

They ruled the night,

and the night

seemed to last as long as