Big Time In The Jungle Chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

_ Down in Utah, Alabama [C] in [G] 1965 [D] a young man about 21 [C] no different than you or I.
[Am] He's catching catfish and getting [D] drunk _ but [Am] Uncle Sam called.
[D] He called him up, sent [G] him out to Vietnam.
_ That [Am] young man [D] got his life turned upside down, turned his smile into a crown.
Robbed that king of his crown for an idea [A] he didn't [G] even know about.
_ [D] He was gambling at the wagon [C] when that army [G] man showed up.
[D] And he flashed that pen and paper [C] and old Flooky [G] he signed up.
It's gonna be [Am] a big time [D] in the jungle.
_ [Am] Gonna be a firefight, _ [D] gonna be a rumble.
He sent me out to [G] Vietnam.
I'll [Am] fight ten men, _ [D] I got nothing left in the states for me.
I wanna see the world you see.
I know that Uncle Sam needs me to fight for an [A] idea I know [G] nothing about.
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_ [D] Oh the drop point was dusty [C] and the drill [G] sergeant was loud.
[D] And he could not see the corpses [C] for the raging dust cloud.
[Am] Grab your duffel bags, [D] head to the checkpoint.
Welcome to [Am] Vietnam boys, you're [D] in for a hell of a fight.
Take it from the [G] ones who know, the [D] army moves [Am] slow. _
[D] Hurry up and wait, don't sleep late.
Learn to hate your brother before you [G] hate your foe. _
[D] On patrol out in the rice [C] fields them choppers flew low.
[D] Glancing up for the hand [C] signal to tell you [G] where to go.
Then the [Am] bombs started falling and they [D] pounded his brain.
And he [Am] thought about Utah and who [D] was to blame for sending him to [G] Vietnam. _ _ _
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