Chords for Johnny Cash - Singing In Vietnam Talking Blues

[N] _ [A#] I _ [C#] _ _ wrote a [G#] song yesterday [C#] for all the men in the military, _ especially for those that are
_ overseas and want to go home.
I know how it feels. _
I went to Vietnam two years ago _ and wrote a song about that.
I call it, _ Singing in Vietnam, Talking Blues.
_ _ Well one morning [G#m] at breakfast I said to my wife, [F#] we've been everywhere once and some
places twice, as I had another [D#] helping of country ham.
[G#] She said we've never been to Vietnam.
[C#] There's a quarter of a million of our boys over there.
So we went to the [F#] Orient, _ _ [G#] Saigon.
_ _ Well [C#] we got a big welcome when we drove in [F#] to the gates of a place that they call Long Ben.
We checked [D#m] in and everything got kind of quiet, [G#m] but a soldier boy said just wait till tonight,
[C#] things get noisy.
_ _ Things [F#] start happening. _ _
_ _ [G#] _ Bad firecrackers. _
[C#] That night we did four shows for the boys.
[F#] They were living it up with a whole lot of noise.
Then we did our last song [D#] for the night and we [G#] crawled in the bed for some peace and quiet,
but things [C#] weren't peaceful.
_ _ [F#]
Things weren't quiet.
_ _ _ [G#m] All [G#] night, boom boom.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _
For a few minutes [C#m] June never said a word.
Then I [F#] thought at first that she hadn't heard.
[D#m] Then a shell exploded not two miles away and [G#] June sat up and I heard her say, what was [C#] that?
I said that was a shell [F#] or a bomb.
She said I'm scared.
I said I [G#] am too.
Well [C#] all night long that noise kept on and the sound would [F#] chill you right to the bone.
The bullets and the bombs and the mortar shells shook our bed [G#] every time one [C#] fell and it never let up.
_ _ It was getting [F#] worse _ _ before it [G#] gets better. _ _ _ _
Well then the sun come up and the [C#m] noise died down.
We [F#] got a few minutes sleep.
We were sleeping sound when a soldier knocked on the [D#m] door and said last night [G#] they brought
in seven dead and 14 [C#] wounded.
[G#] And would we [F#] come down to the base hospital and sing [G#] for them?
_ Yes.
_ Went down to the hospital wards [F#] by day and every night we was singing away.
[D#] Then the shells and the bombs till dawn [G#] again.
The helicopters brought in the wounded men [C#] night after night, _ day after [F#] day, _ _ coming and [G#] going.
_ _ _ _ [C#] So we sadly sang for them our last song.
[F#] Reluctantly we said so long.
We [D#] did our best to let them know that we care [G#] for every last one of them that's over there,
[C#] whether we belong over there or not.
They're [F#] our boys _ and they belong over here [G#] somewhere. _ _
_ Well now [C#] that's all about all there is to tell about [F#] that one little trip into living
hell and if [D#] I ever go back over there anymore, I hope [G#] there's none of our boys there for
me to sing for.
I [C#] hope that war is over with.
And they [F#] all come home.
_ _ [G#] Escape.
_ _ _ _ [C#] And keep. _
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