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Billy Joel Lyrics for Song: Goodnight Saigon
 Lyrics for Album: Live At Shea Stadium: Deluxe Edition [2011]
 
 
 
 31935>We met as soul mates
 
 On Parris Island
 
 We left as inmates
 
 From an asylum
 
 And we were sharp
 
 As sharp as knives
 
 And we were so gung ho
 
 To lay down our lives
 
 
 
 We came in spastic
 
 Like tameless horses
 
 We left in plastic
 
 As numbered corpses
 
 And we learned fast
 
 To travel light
 
 Our arms were heavy
 
 But our bellies were tight
 
 
 
 We had no home front
 
 We had no soft soap
 
 They sent us Playboy
 
 They gave us Bob Hope
 
 We dug in deep
 
 And shot on sight
 
 And prayed to Jesus Christ
 
 With all of our might
 
 
 
 We had no cameras
 
 To shoot the landscape
 
 We passed the hash pipe
 
 And played our Doors tapes
 
 And it was dark
 
 So dark at night
 
 And we held on to each other
 
 Like brother to brother
 
 We promised our mothers we'd write
 
 
 
 And we would all go down together
 
 We said we'd all go down together
 
 Yes we would all go down together
 
 
 
 Remember Charlie
 
 Remember Baker
 
 They left their childhood
 
 On every acre
 
 And who was wrong?
 
 And who was right?
 
 It didn't matter in the thick of the fight
 
 
 
 We held the day
 
 In the palm
 
 Of our hand
 
 They ruled the night
 
 And the night
 
 Seemed to last as long as six weeks
 
 On Parris Island
 
 We held the coastline
 
 They held the highlands
 
 And they were sharp
 
 As sharp as knives
 
 They heard the hum of the motors
 
 They counted the rotors
 
 And waited for us to arrive
 
 
 
 And we would all go down together
 
 We said we'd all go down together
 
 Yes we would all go down together
 
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| Album Lyrics: Live At Shea Stadium: Deluxe Edition [2011] |  
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  Billy Joel
 "Live At Shea Stadium: Deluxe Edition [2011]"
 
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