{"id":1445,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/englands-vietnam"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"englands-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/englands-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLAND’S VIETNAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well good evening folks it’s good to be back in the good old USA
\nWhere they make damn sure they all the wars thousands of mile away
\nI’ve just been across the ocean to see my family home
\nBut after what I saw there, I never more will roam<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nOh, give me a home the Panthers roam and the Weathermen so free
\nTake a walk in the dark around Central Park, it does not bother me
\nTear the country in two, but whatever you do, let me stay right where I am
\nFor I do not want another trip to England’s Vietnam<\/p>\n

When I arrived in Alvagroad, that’s where the planes do go
\nIt used to be Nuts Corner, why they changed it, I just don’t know
\nI was wearing a an army jacket, from Vietnam it came
\nWhen a soldier stuck a gun in my ribs and he said, ‘I know your game’<\/p>\n

‘Oh, where’s your black beret,’ he cried, ‘and your hurling stick, as well’
\nI shot him with my camera and like a stone he fell
\nThey I called for a policeman, saying, ‘Take this poor man away.’
\nYou know this would never happen, in the good old USA<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Well the policeman took me by the hand, said, ‘Come along with me,’
\n‘Cause I can see by that gleam in your eye that you hate democracy.’
\nYou’re a Trotskyist from the Kremlin, you’re a Vatican, anarchist spy
\nYou’re a communist from China, all coming from the F.B.I.<\/p>\n

Well I knew that I had to leave there, I tell you what I done
\nI slipped five dollars in his hand and I began to run
\nThen I walked the streets of Belfast, from the New Lodge to the Falls
\nWatching rubber bullets go bouncing off the walls<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nOh, give me a home the Panthers roam and the Weathermen so free
\nTake a walk in the dark around Central Park, it does not bother me
\nTear the country in two, but whatever you do, let me stay right where I am
\nFor I do not want another trip to England’s Vietnam
\nNo I do not want another trip to England’s Vietnam<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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