Lyr Req: We Are Winning (Rock of Ages parody)

Subject: RE: Second verse?
From: ShorelinerI-5
Date: 22 May 05 - 04:39 PM

As an old Vietnam hand of the early '60s, I well remember a song sung around the bar of the Majestic Hotel.
To the tune of "Rock of Ages," we sang:

"We are winning, don't you know?
General Harkins, tells us so.
In the Highlands, things are rough.
In the Delta, things are tough.
But the Vee-Cee, they will go.
General Harkins, tells us so."

followed by...
"If you doubt it, shame on you..
MacNamara says so too."

Does anyone know the second verse? I believe there was one.

This was sung in association with "The Yellow Rose of Saigon," which is in the Mudcat archieves.

I have an Iraq version ready to roll, but I wanted to check this out first.

Subject: RE: Vietnam War Song- We Are Winning (Rock of Ages
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 May 05 - 05:39 PM

There's just a fragment here (click)

We are winning, this we know.
General Harkins tells us so.
In the delta, things are rough.
In the mountains, mighty tough.
But we're winning, this we know.
General Harkins tells us so.
If you doubt that this is true,
McNamara says so too.

Subject: RE: Vietnam War Song- We Are Winning (Rock of Ages)
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:24 PM

Ditty being sung in Saigon at the time by newsmen, as cited in Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1965), p. 983.

The above is dated as 1963.

Subject: RE: Vietnam War Song- We Are Winning (Rock of Ages)
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:36 PM

That is, referring to the year 1963 despite the book being published in 1965.