Sailing over to Vietnam   Southeast Asian Birmingham   Well training is the word we use   Nice word to have in case we lose   Training a million Vietnamese   To fight for the wrong government and the American way      Well they put me in a barracks house   Just across the way from Laos   They said, "You're pretty safe when the troops deploy   But don't turn your back on your house boy"   When they ring the gong   Watch out for the Viet-Cong      Well, the sergeant said, "It's time to train"   So I climbed aboard my helicopter plane   We flew above the battle ground   A sniper tried to shoot us down   He must have forgotten, we're only trainees   Them Commies never fight fair      Friends the very next day we trained some more   We burned some villages down to the floor   Yes we burned out the jungles far and wide   Made sure those red apes had no place left to hide   Threw all the people in relocation camps   Under lock and key, made damn sure they're free      Well, I walked through the jungle and around the bend   Who should I meet but President Diem   Said you're fighting to keep Vietnam free   For good old democracy   That means rule by one family   And 15,000 American troops, give or take a few      Thousand   American   Troops      He said, "I was a fine old Christian man   Ruling this backward Buddhist land   Well, it ain't much but what the heck   It sure beats hell out of Chiang Kai-shek   I'm the power elite   Me and the 7th fleet"      He said, "Meet my sister, Madam Nhu   The sweetheart of Dien Bien Phu"   He said, "Meet my brothers, meet my aunts   With the government yhat doesn't take a chance   Families that slay together   Stay together"      Said, "If you want to stay you'll have to pay   Over a million dollars a day, but it's worth it all, don't you see?   If you lose the country you'll still have me   Me and Syngman Rhee, Chiang Kai-shek, Madam Nhu   Like I said on 'Meet the Press'   I regret that I have but one country to give for my life"      Well, now old Dien is gone and dead   All the new leaders are anti-Red   Yes they're pro-American, freedom sensations   Against Red China, the United Nations   Now all the news commentators and the CIA   Are saying, "Thank God for coincidence"