Khe Sanh Chords by Jimmy Barnes

[Start]

[Verse]
G D Em Em7 D C
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G C D
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  C                                      G   
I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh
       D Em                    C                 D                
And my ■ soul was sold with my cigarettes to the ■ blackmarket man
     B7         Em           C     
I've ■  had the Vietnam cold turkey
         G                   C   
From the ocean to the Silver City
         Am         F                     Em
And it's only other vets could understand ■ 
                         C        G         
About the long forgotten dockside guarantees
D Em                C             D        Em          
■ How there were no Vdayheroes in nineteen seventythree
                          C      
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour
    G                          C       
Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss her
        Am              D                     
She was lined and I was home to the lucky land
G   D   Em               C              G      
And she was like so many more from that time on
Em                      C               D                     
Their lives were all so empty till they found their chosen one
          Em                  
And their legs were often open
    C                G      C     
But their minds were always closed
          Am                  F             D     
And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains


[Chorus]
Bm7     Em              C            G                  
And the legal pads were yellow hours long paypacket lean
D         Em            C                   D                     
■ And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been
    Em                    C    
But the car parks made me jumpy
      G             C           
And I never stopped ■ the dreams
   Am               Am7 D         G D Em       
Or the growing need for speed and ■ ■ novacaine
            C                         G  
So I worked across the country end to end
D        Em              C                 D                          
Tried to find a place to settle down where my mixed up life could mend
       Em        C     
Held a job on an oilrig
G                      C    
Flying choppers when I could
        Am               F              D       
But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend
         Em                  C                      
And I've travelled round the world from year to year
G        Em                   C             D                
And each one found me aimless one more year the more for wear
                   Em            C   
And I've been back to South East Asia
        G                 C    
But the answer sure ain't there
        Am                D                G    
But I'm drifting north to check things out again


[Solo]
Em C G Em C D Em C
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G C G D G
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[Verse]
         Em                    C               G   
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
D    Em           C                 D                   
Only seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong
            Em               C     
There ain't nothing like the kisses
       G                     
From a jaded Chinese princess
C   G     Am                 F            D         
I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long
     Em                 C                  G D   
Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost ■ gone


[Chorus]
         Em             C                  D   
Yeah the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
         Em            C      
And it's really got me worried
    G                          C    
I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry
        Am   D     G Em     C               G     
And the last plane ■ out of Sydney's almost ■ gone
D Em C D Em C G C
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Am7 D G C G C G
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[Outro]