Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation - Tom Paxton

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[00:09.422]Little song for lippy Lyndon
[00:18.139]I got a letter from L.B.J
[00:19.831]It said, \"This is your lucky day\"
[00:21.516]It's time to put your khaki trousers on
[00:25.167]Though it may seem very queer
[00:26.853]We've got no jobs to give you here
[00:28.542]So we are sending you to Vietnam
[00:32.204]Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[00:34.169]Have no fear of escalation
[00:36.132]I am trying everyone to please
[00:39.499]Though it isn't really war
[00:41.181]We're sending fifty thousand more
[00:43.149]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[00:48.201]I jumped off the old troop ship
[00:49.889]And sank in mud up to my hips
[00:51.852]I cussed until the captain called me down
[00:55.232]Never mind how hard it's raining
[00:57.193]Think of all the ground we're gaining
[00:59.157]Just don't take one step outside of town
[01:02.527]And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[01:04.494]Have no fear of escalation
[01:06.176]I am trying everyone to please
[01:09.549]Though it isn't really war
[01:11.509]We're sending sixty thousand more
[01:13.190]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[01:18.805]Every night the local gentry
[01:20.486]Slip out past the sleeping sentry
[01:22.447]They go to join the old V C
[01:25.816]In their nightly little dramas
[01:27.781]They put on their black pajamas
[01:29.465]Then come lobbing mortar shells at me
[01:32.840]And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[01:34.808]Have no fear of escalation
[01:36.492]I am trying everyone to please
[01:39.864]Though it isn't really war
[01:41.996]We're sending seventy thousand more
[01:43.394]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[01:47.328]We go round in helicopters
[01:49.017]Like a bunch of big grasshoppers
[01:50.701]Searching for the Viet Cong in vain
[01:54.355]They left a note that they had gone
[01:56.042]They had to get down to Saigon
[01:57.734]Their government positions to maintain
[02:01.385]And here I sit in this rice paddy
[02:03.352]Wondering about Big Daddy
[02:05.040]And I know that Lyndon loves me so
[02:07.289](Yes he does!)
[02:08.695]Yet how sadly I remember
[02:10.374]Way back yonder in November
[02:12.337]When he said I'd never have to go
[02:15.707]And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[02:17.672]Have no fear of escalation
[02:19.356]I am trying everyone to please
[02:22.739]Though it isn't really war
[02:24.698]We're sending a hundred thousand more
[02:26.663]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese