Still in Saigon — текст песни (Charlie Daniels)

Still In Saigon

Got on a plane in Frisco and got off in Vietman. I walked in
to a diff`rent world, a past forever gone.

I could have gone to Canada or I could have stayed in school,
but I was brought up diff`rently. I couldn`t break the rules.

Thirteen months and fifteen days, the last ones were the worst.
One minute I`d kneel down and pray and the next I`d stand and
curse.

No place to run to where I did not feel that war. When I got
home, I stayed alone and checked behind each door. `Cause I`m
still in Saigon, still in Saigon. I am still in Saigon, in my
mind.

The ground at home was covered with snow and I was covered with
sweat. My younger brother calls my a killer and my daddy calls
me a vet.

Ev`rybody says I`m someone else, that I`m sick and there`s no
cure. Damned if I know who I am. There was only one place I was
sure, when I was still in Saigon, still in Saigon. I am still
in Saigon, in my mind.

Ev`ry summer when it rains I smell the jungle, I hear the planes.
Can`t tell no one, I feel ashamed, afraid someday I`ll go insane.

That`s been ten long years ago and time has gone on by. But now
and then I catch myself, eyes searching through the sky.

All the sounds of long ago will be forever in my head. Mingled
with the wounded`s cries and the silence of the dead. `Cause
I`m still in Saigon, still in Saigon. I am still in Saigon, in
my mind.

Yes, I`m still in Saigon in my mind.