Verse
C F C
Oh, I'm weary and I'm harried and I don't know what to do,
G7
There's no end to all the trouble that I'm in.
C F
In the lands that I'm patrollin' revolutions are unrollin',
C G7 C
My antennae can't see any way to win.
F C
I'm the people's best policeman, here to guard them while I fleece them,
F G7
But their sleeping habits aren't really fair.
C C7 F G7 C
And I recently have found that the world is really round and the little men are movin' everywhere.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 2]
C F C
Oh, once there was a savior and he lived in old Saigon,
G7
And the people really loved our man Diem.
C F
Cardinal Spellman gave him power, helped along by Eisenhower
C G7 C
And professors from the state of Michigan.
F C
He got some ammunition and he crushed his opposition,
F G7
He was bloody, but he wasn't very sharp,
C C7 F G7
'Cause our puppet broke his string, and he thought he'd like to sing,
C
So we issued him a halo and a harp.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 3]
C F C
Then the generals took over and took over and took over,
G7
There were coups and counter-coups most every week.
C F
But we honored our commitment, why we never missed a shipment,
C G7 C
If we had, they would have sold us up a creek.
F C
But the "Viet Cong" surprised us, they almost terrorized us,
F G7
Did you know their average age is seventeen?
C C7 F
We get poison arrow treatments from those juvenile delinquents,
G7 C
They're the only thing more deadly than Marines.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 4]
C F C
We're losin' badly on the ground, so we go to the air,
G7
And we drop a couple thousand bombs a day.
C F
But the peasants slowly funnel into the Commie tunnels,
C G7 C
Oh, how I wish the Reds would go away!
F C
We want negotiations to secure this little nation
F G7
And keep the Commie menace out of here.
C C7 F
In Saigon we want a friend; let me see, who shall we send?
G7 C
Hubert Humphrey isn't doing much this year.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 5]
C F C
Now I see them in the cities and the mountains and the plains,
G7
By coincidence, they're everywhere I roam.
C F
In the hotel elevators I'm beset by demonstrators
C G7 C
And I hear the people shoutin' "Bring Am Home!"
F C
They're invading Air Force bases and stirring up the races,
F G7
And yelling nasty things at L.B.J.
C C7 F
Yes, the enemy is near; what's that splashing sound I hear?
G7 C
I see sampans out in San Francisco Bay.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 6]
C F C
My antennae started twitchin', there's a signal comin' in,
G7
And I guess I'll send a million men to war.
C F
We will teach the reds a lesson, stop the peasants from their messin',
C G7 C
They won't call for no elections any more.
F C
Stop harassing our dictators, you're a bunch of dirty traitors,
F G7
And this is not the first time you've been warned.
C C7 F
Stop attacking our Marines, eat our poisoned jelly beans,
G7 C
And don't invade the little land where you were born.
[Chorus]
F
Leave us alone,
C
Leave us alone,
F G7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
C C7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
F
And I might not bomb your land,
G7 C
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
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