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[Verse 1]
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Just out of the infantry this morning,
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I had to pay my dues across the sea,
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But no one back in boot camp ever warned me,
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What the readjustment blues would do to me.
[Verse 2]
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"Welcome to Havannah", said the pilot,
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"We must have made a wroooong turn on the way."
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"Let's buy some cigars and keep it quiiiet,
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If they don't know we're here we'll get away."
[Verse 3]
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Just as I had realized he was joking,
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I saw we were in Washington D.C.,
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'Cause there was all the patriotic buiiiiildings.
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Just like I had seen them on T.V.
[Chorus 1]
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It must have been a holiday,
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'cause there was this parade.
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People carried signs I couldn't read that they had made.
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'Till I got closer and my heart fell to my socks;
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There was a battle raging and the air was
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Filled with teargas and rocks.
[Verse 4]
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There was the flag I'd fought against so often,
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The one I fought for hanging upsiiiide down,
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The wind was blowing ha-AARD, the dirt was flying,
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It made the city sky-YY look dark and brown.
[Verse 5]
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I saw a girl… she could have been my sister,
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Except her hair was lo-OONG and in her face,
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She explained… this was a demonstraaaation,
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Against the war… and foooor the human ra-AAACE.
[Verse 6]
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Now I've seen a lot of strange things in my travels,
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Cannibals, yes… and aliens galoooore,
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But I never thought I'd see so many peeeople
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Saying we don't want your + + + wAAA-aa-aar!
[Chorus 2]
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The troops all had on uniforms
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Just like the one I'd worn,
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But they were all domestic… and myy-yy duty chose waaar
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They carried guuUUNS just like the ones across the sea,
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Except this time I was the citizen
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And they was pointing their guns at meEEE,
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Yes, I-III was just a citizen
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And I was walking down the street,
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And it was just then that the Re-adjustment Bluuuuuuuuuuuues
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Got through to meeeeeee-eeeee