Only Tom Paxton lyrics I still remember are from his clever talking blues piece, "the Viet Nam Pot Luck Blues", which ends " So his squad and my squad settled down and passed som e lovely stuff around. All too soon it was time to go, and the Captain got on the radio and said " Hello Heeead-quarters, we have met the enemy.... and he has been *smashed* All about meeting up with a Vietnamese cadre offering their own special stash ... "straight from Oncle Ho's victory garden. We call it Han-noi Gold". Still brings atremor of an inner chuckle the way Loudon Wainwright III still can. Cleverr man that Tom Paxton
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