Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Saigon Bride, artist - Joan Baez. Album song Joan, in the genre
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
Saigon Bride |
Farewell my wistful Saigon bride |
I’m going out to stem the tide |
A tide that never saw the seas |
It flows through jungles, round the trees |
Some say it’s yellow, some say red |
It will not matter when we’re dead |
How many dead men will it take |
To build a dike that will not break? |
How many children must we kill |
Before we make the waves stand still? |
Though miracles come high today |
We have the wherewithal to pay |
It takes them off the streets you know |
To places they would never go alone |
It gives them useful trades |
The lucky boys are even paid |
Men die to build their Pharoah’s tombs |
And still and still the teeming wombs |
How many men to conquer Mars |
How many dead to reach the stars? |
Farewell my wistful Saigon bride |
I’m going out to stem the tide |
A tide that never saw the seas |
It flows through jungles, round the trees |
Some say it’s yellow, some say red |
It will not matter when we’re dead |