Khe Sanh Chords by Jimmy Barnes

[Intro]

[Verse]
D Dsus4 G D C G Am7 D
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  G                    C                 G   
I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh
                             C                 G              
And my soul was sold with my cigarettes to the blackmarket man
                          C     
I've had the Vietnam cold turkey
         G                   C   
From the ocean to the Silver City
              F                D          G
And it's only other vets could understand ■
D           Em             C        G          C
■ About the long forgotten dockside guarantees ■
G D         G       C             D        G            D7
■ How there were no Vdayheroes in nineteen seventythree ■ 
       Em                 C      
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour
           G                   C       
Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss her
        Am7             D                     
She was lined and I was home to the lucky land


[Chorus]
G   C G     Em               C              G      
And ■ ■ she was like so many more from that time on
D 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
          Am7                 F             D      Asus4
And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains ■    
D         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
       Am7     Am       D                  
Or the growing need for speed and novacaine
G C G D
■ ■ ■ ■
Em          C                         G  
So I worked across the country end to end
         Em              C                 D                          
Tried to find a place to settle down where my mixed up life could mend
B7     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        Em7       C                  G   
And I've travelled round the world from year to year
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     Am7  
But the answer sure ain't there
        D        G        C     G               
But I'm drifting north to check things out again


[Solo]
Em C G D Em C D B7
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Em C G C Am7 D G Em
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G C G D Em C D B7
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Em C G C Am D
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G C G
■ ■ ■


[Verse]
D            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
B7             Em               C     
■  There ain't nothing like the kisses
       G             C       
From a jaded Chinese princess
          Am7                F                  Dsus4
I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long 


[Chorus]
Am7          Em                C                   
■   Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
G        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
        Am7               D        G          
And the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
D Em C G C G D Em
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C D Em C G C Am Am7
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D G C G C G
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[Outro]