Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

Capo on the 7th Fret I got a letter from L.B.J   It said "This is your lucky day"   It’s time to put your khaki trousers on     Though it may seem very queer   We’ve got no jobs to give you here   So we are sending you to Vietnam   And Lyndon Johnson told the nation   Have no fear of escalation   I am trying everyone to please   Though it isn’t really war   We’re sending fifty thousand more To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese    I jumped off the old troop ship   And sank in mud up to my hips   I cussed until the captain called me down   Never mind how hard it’s raining   Think of all the ground we’re gaining   Just don’t take one step outside of town   And Lyndon Johnson told the nation   Have no fear of escalation   I am trying everyone to please   Though it isn’t really war   We’re sending sixty thousand more   To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese    Every night the local gentry   Slip out past the sleeping sentry   They go to join the old V.C.                In their nightly little dramas   They put on their black pajamas   And come lobbing mortar shells at me   And Lyndon Johnson told the nation   Have no fear of escalation   I am trying everyone to please   Though it isn’t really war   We’re sending seventy thousand more   To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese    We go round in helicopters   Like a bunch of big grasshoppers   Searching for the Viet Cong in vain         They left a note that they had gone   They had to get down to Saigon   Their government positions to maintain   Well here I sit in this rice paddy   Wondering about Big Daddy   And I know that Lyndon loves me so   Yet how sadly I remember   Way back yonder in November   When he said I’d never have to go       And Lyndon Johnson told the nation   Have no fear of escalation   I am trying everyone to please              Though it isn’t really war   We’re sending a hundred thousand more   To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese