VIETNAM WAR - KHE SANH (Don Walker) - Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel video free download

KHE SANH (Don Walker) -- Jimmy Barnes @ Cold Chisel

I left my heart to the sappers 'round Khe Sanh

An' my soul was sold with my cigarettes to the black market man

I've had the Vietnam cold turkey

From the ocean to the Silver City

An' it's only other vets could understand

About the long forgotten dockside guarantees

How there were no V-day heroes way back in 1973

An' how we sailed into Sydney Harbour

Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss her

She was lined, an' I was home to the lucky land

Let's go...

An' she was like so many more from that time on

Their lives were all so empty, until they found their chosen one

An' their legs were often open

But their minds were always closed

An' their hearts were held in fast suburban chains

An' the legal pads were yellow, hours long, pay packet lean

An' the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been

But the car parks made me jumpy

An' I never stopped the dreams

Or the growing need for speed an' novocain

So, I worked across the country end to end

I tried to find a place to settle down, where my mixed up life could mend

I held a job on an oil-rig

Flying choppers when I could

But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend

An' I've travelled round the world from year to year

An' each one found me aimless, one more year the more for wear

An' I've been back to South East Asia

But the answer sure ain't there

An' I'm drifting north, to check things out again

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

An' only seven flying hours, an' I'll be landing in Hong Kong

There ain't nothing like the kisses

From a jaded Chinese princess

I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long

Oh, well, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

An' it's really got me worried

I'm goin' nowhere, an' I'm in a hurry

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

Here we go, come on...

I said the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost

An' it's really got me worried

I'm going nowhere, an' I'm in a hurry

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

* Jimmy Barnes (James Dixon Swan) © Liberation Music