your son's been killed in vietnam, doo-dah, doo-dah

your son's been killed in vietnam, doo-dah, doo-dah your son's been killed in
vietnam, oh, the doo-dah day the mother fuckers dead, they shot him in the head;
your son's been killed in vietnam, oh the doo-dah day.

chorus

oh, gwine to fight all night, gwine to fight all day gwine ta send him home in a
body bag, oh the doo-dah day
hit him in the chest with an rpg--
he ain't got but an arm and a leg--
send him home in a body bag---

repeat first verse

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the impact of mates getting killed never lessens, you just close of that part of
yourself with 'hard-core' songs like the above.
a rpg is a b-40 rocket propelled grenade, Chinese or Russian.
many versions-this is a compilation from 161 recce flight songbook, a respondent
from the snowy mts, and les cleveland, of wellington,
nz and a wwii vet and collector.

From the the telegram.txt file, in the folder "vietnam war songs 1" in the Sam Hilt digital collection. Sam Hilt was an American who served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam, immigrated to Australia after the war and became a citizen of that country.