Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Saigon Bride , by - Joan Baez. Song from the album Joan, in the genre Release date: 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 |