I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River   Where the music's too loud   While I try to have my dinner   Stories I've been told of 1954      When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war   My friend Michael came in '68   The bodies still floating with the dinner boats sailing   Beside all those souls of the American war      Oh, deliver me to the river of souls   In the heart of Indochina   Deliver me to a River at Peace   In this twenty-first century      All those souls that floated free   In these dark war's waters   All the souls now swim together   The French the Viet Minn      Those American boys   The souls of the Saigon River   At peace in Indochina      I am in a caffe in Ho Chi Minn City   My friend Bobby Muller is sitting with me   This traffic is maddening   In his wheelchair he's napping      I wonder at times, does he walk in his dreams?   Later I walked all the way from Tu Do Street   To the banks of the river with the dinner boats sailing   Beside all of the souls, of a River in Peace      Oh, deliver me to the river of souls   In the heart of Indochina   Deliver me to a River at Peace   In this twenty-first century      All those souls that floated free   In these dark war's waters   All the souls now swim together   The French the Viet Minn      Those American boys   The souls of the Saigon River   At peace in Indochina      Hoa binh, hoa binh   (Peace in Vietnamese)   Peace in the heart of Indochina