The Agent Orange Song - Country Joe Mcdonald Chords
Chords: Donald, E, B, A, F#m, Chorus, G#m, God, Bless, Glen
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Genre: psychedelic, anti-war, folk
The Agent Orange Song
Country Joe Mc Donald
Finger picking mostly arpegios
Intro E B A E
Verse 1
E B
I was 17, just a teenage kid,
A E
The year that I enlisted.
B
I can’t remember why I did,
A E
My mom said that I insisted.
A E
I had some strange idea then,
(walk down to) B
That Uncle Sam was right.
E B
Oh momma cried, but she signed
A E
the card, And then I went off to fight.
Verse 2
B
Got off the plane in Vietnam,
A E
It didn’t seem like war.
B
With all I saw I started to wonder
A E
what I had come there for.
A E
Some officers got drunk at night,
A F#m B
and cheated on their wife’s.
E B
And the peasants on the other side,
A E
where just struggling for their lives.
Verse 3
B
Oh the army tried some fancy stuff,
E
to bring them to their knees.
B
Like Agent Orange defoliant,
A E
to kill the brush and tress.
A E
We’d hike all day on jungle trails,
A F#m B
through clouds of poison spray.
E B
And they never told me then,
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