Readjustment Blues

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[Verse 1]
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Just out of the infantry this 
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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 
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warned me,
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What the readjustment blues would 
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do to me.


[Verse 2]
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"Welcome to Havannah", said the 
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pilot,
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"We must have made a wroooong 
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turn on the way."
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"Let's buy some cigars and keep 
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it quiiiet,
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If they don't know we're here 
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we'll get away."


[Verse 3]
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Just as I had realized he was 
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joking,
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I saw we were in Washington D.C.,
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'Cause there was all the patriotic
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 buiiiiildings.
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Just like I had seen them on T.V.


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[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 
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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 
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against so often,
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The one I fought for hanging 
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upsiiiide down,
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The wind was blowing ha-AARD, the 
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dirt was flying,
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It made the city sky-YY look dark 
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and brown.


[Verse 5]
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I saw a girl…    she could have 
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been my sister,
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   Except her hair was lo-OONG 
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and in her face,
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She explained…  this was a 
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demonstraaaation,
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Against the war… and foooor the 
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human ra-AAACE.


[Verse 6]
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Now I've seen a lot of strange 
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things in my travels,
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Cannibals, yes…   and aliens 
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galoooore,
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But I never thought I'd see so 
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many peeeople
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Saying we don't want your + + + 
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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 
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myy-yy duty chose waaar
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   They carried guuUUNS just like
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 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
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 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 
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Re-adjustment Bluuuuuuuuuuuues
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Got through to meeeeeee-eeeee
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