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Thread #173971   Message #4219804
Posted By: cnd
26-Mar-25 - 08:08 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Vietnam Blues (Skip James?)
Subject: ADD: Vietnam Blues (J.B. Lenoir)
Here's my transcription of it. Lyrics are pretty close to J. B. Lenoir's Vietnam Blues.


VIETNAM BLUES

Vietnam, Vietnam
Everybody's crying 'bout Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Everybody's crying 'bout Vietnam
Believe these lonely days are killing me down in Mississippi
Nobody seems to give a darn

Oh, God, if you can hear my prayer
Please help my brothers down in Vietnam
Oh, Lord, if you can hear my prayer
Please help my brothers over in Vietnam
Poor boy's fighting and hiding in them holes
Maybe killing their brothers they don't know

Mister President, you always talk about peace
But you must clean up your house before you leave
You're always crying, crying 'bout peace
But, but you must clean up your house before you leave
How can you tell the world they need peace when you
You're still, you're still killing and mistreating poor me