Wow!!! Thank you so much Mr. Offer!
Thank you so very very much! You really helped.
My drean comes true, now I can play that song!

You have some questions about the text - there are war slang meanings.

Starlight scope – Night vision aiming system AN/PVS-2 used during VN war

Sky Spot – Air strike

Spectre – AH-130, armored and armed with 20mm miniguns, 40mm Bofors guns and night vision system variant of huge 4-engined transport airplane "Hercules", used as "Gunship" for one-side high-rate fire on VC and NVA positions.
Especially in the night.

I have a question, too:
"yankin' my chains" - what it means?

Sorry for misunderstanding, I am Russian so English isn't my mother language.


SITTING IN THE CAB OF MY TRUCK with chords
(Chip Dockery)
That song is parody of Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Reading


I am playing that so:

G                     B               
Hiding in the morning sun,
C                               A
I'll be driving in the evening calm,
G                           B            
Watching the Phantoms roll in,
C                           A
and I watch them pull away again;
                     
G                                    Em                        
Now I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck,
G                      Em
thinking this life ain't such a game;
G                            A                        
Sitting in the cab of my truck,
               C    G
filing my chains.

G                         B               
I left my home in Dong Hoi,
C               A
headed for the DMZ,
G                         B            
Well, I had something to live for,
C                            A
a Peoples' Hero I was gonna be;
            
          G                            Em                                                      
Now I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck,
                                                                                 
Em                                           G
looking through the windshield at flarelighted rain;
G                         A                           
Sitting in the cab of my truck,
             C      G
yankin' my chains.


G       D                     C7
Here I sit, having a nicotine fit –
G                   D                   C7
God, I'm too scared to get a cigarette lit;
G                   D                   C7
'Cause that might just blow my only hope
F                                    D   
of not showing up on a starlight scope.

G                                  B
Well, sitting here with britches so tight,
          C                                 A
'cause I think that "spectres" due back tonight;
G                              B
Bleeding from my ears and my nose,
            C                         A
from a Sky Spot that finally came close;
             G                            Em
Now I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck,
             G                      Em
watching the bombs fall through the rain,
G                           A                           
Sitting in the cab of my truck,
                C G
filing my chains.



P.S. God bless the Vets!