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Radio Free SaiGon

from Caravan Park Summers by The Coolites

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Everything is new, everything is exciting and after four days in a new country some people know it all, or so they'll tell you. A musical snapshot after years of living in SaiGon.

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Radio Free Saigon
(words/music S.Gibson)
(All verses E Am) (2 bars each)

Seven shades of fuck
He’s all beat up
Been drinking with his new friends
Down on Bui Vien

He already knows it all
And it’s only just day four
Got his lonely planet
Read a book about the war

Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
Shouting noise out to the world
Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
As the motorcycles swirl

He bargains like a local
Never pays more than twice the price
Got himself a marine corp zippo
It’s genuine, that’s nice

He’s getting into culture
Got himself a new tattoo
Hated Districts 4 and 5
Felt good in District 2

Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
Shouting noise out to the world
Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
As the motorcycles swirl

But District 1 is where it’s at
Drinking beer on plastic chairs
On Day 6 he lost his Iphone
To the girls that work in pairs

Days 7 and 8 he took photos
Day 9 he bought a shirt
Day 10 he’s on the night bus
God that head is going to hurt

Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
Shouting noise out to the world
Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
As the motorcycles swirl

So Vietnam’s been done
He’s a veteran so to speak
His girl don’t cry or blink an eye
There’ll be a hundred more next week

So Vietnam’s been done
He’s a veteran so to speak
be wearing fisherman’s pants in Thailand
By the end of the next week

Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
Shouting noise out to the world
Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
As the motorcycles swirl
Dm C
Calling radio free Saigon
E Am
Calling radio free Saigon

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from Caravan Park Summers, released April 27, 2015
Words/Music Simon Gibson

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