If you can play on the fiddle How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation As railhead towns feel the steel mills
rust water froze In the generation Clear as winter ice This is your paradise
There ain't no need for ya Go straight to hell boys
Y'wanna join in a chorus Of the Amerasian blues When it's Christmas
out in Ho Chi Minh City Kiddie say papa papa-san take me home
See me got photo photo Photograph of you Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma-san Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice. Straight to hell Oh Papa-san Please take me home
Papa-san Everybody they wanna go home So Mamma-san says
You wanna play mind-crazed banjo On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International Hah! Junkiedom U.S.A. Where procaine proves the purest
rock man groove and rat poison The volatile Molatov says-
Go straight to hell Can you really cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants They wanna sing all night long It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier Any hemisphere No man's land and there ain't no
asylum here King Solomon he never lived round here Go straight to hell boys
This song is about the Vietnam war. More precisely, about the children the GI's had with Vietnamese women, and their desire to go to the states. The "Hell" the lyrics refer to is the USA, and the wrong idea immigrants have that there they will find a better life. "There ain't no need for ya, go straight to hell boys" means the rejection form their fathers and the country (songfacts.com)
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