Текст песни: Goodbye Charlie + перевод

Eighteen years in the Tennessee sun

Grew up fishing on the Cumberland

Little Joe, the youngest son

Slung a slingshot and a squirrel gun

Daddy ran shine neath the moonlight

Bowling Green to them Nashville nights

Little Joe learned riding shotgun

To keep your mouth shut till the job is done

Sixty-seven rolled around

Joe got the call and he headed on out

Across the ocean for the Vietnam

Gonna hit the coast running gonna be a man

Jackie D meet Mary J

You’re gonna do just what I say

Grab your gun and roll on out

Your first ramble gonna scream and shout

So tie a ribbon round the old oak tree

Tell my momma don’t worry bout me

The weather’s warm around Christmas time

I’ve got an M-16 and my boots are dry

I’m sitting up here like a cat in a tree

Waiting for Charlie, gonna set him free

Uncle Sam said I’m the man

Goodbye Charlie

Bengals on the ground, snakes in the trees

Tet comes a gunning he don’t know about me

Johnny’s in the front Charlie’s in the back

Tree comes a crashing six days in the black

Open your eyes now Joe’s done his time

Come back alive but he done left his mind

Uncle Sam said, «Son thank you

Lay down your guns cause we re through with you.»

Now I see the ribbon round the old oak tree

I told my momma don’t worry bout me

The weather’s warm around Christmas time

I’ve got an M-16 and my boots are dry

I’m sitting up here like a cat in a tree

Waiting for Charlie, gonna set him free

Uncle Sam said I’m the man

Goodbye Charlie

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