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T',1Aktuelle foioT^-HitsNineteenMusik und Text: Paul Hardcastle/Bill Coutourie/Jason McCordIn 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war, but it wasn't. It was different in many ways, and so were those who did the fighting. In World War Two the average age of the combat soldier was 26, In Vietnam he was nineteen, in Vietnam he was nineteen. In Vietnam he was nineteen, in Vietnam he was nineteen, nineteen.The heaviest fighting of the past two weeks Continued today twenty-five miles north west of Saigon. I wasn't really sure what was going on. Nineteen, nineteen, nineteen.In Vietnam the combat soldier typically served A twelve-month tour of duty. But was exposed to hostile fire almost every day. Nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen.In Saigon, an US military spokesman said today: More than seven hundred enemy troops were killed last week In that sensitive border area.Throughout all of South Vietnam the enemy lost a total of 2.689 soldiers.jAll those who remember the war, they won't forget what they've seen.Destruction of men in their prime whose average age was nineteen. Destruction, destruction.According to a veterans administration study.Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffer from what psychiatrists call: Post traumatic stress disorder. Many vets complain of alienation, rage or guilt. Some succimib to suicidal thoughts. Eight to ten years after coming home, almost 800.000 men Are still fighting the Vietnam war. None of them received a hero's welcome.Nineteen, Saigon, Saigon, Saigon, Saigon, Saigon, Nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen. Vietnam, Saigon, Vietnam, Saigon, Vietnam, Saigon, Vietnam, Saigon. Purple heart, Saigon, purple heart, Saigon. I wasn't really sure what was going on, I wasn't really sure what was going on. 1985 by Oval Music Ltd., London,Für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz: Musikverlag Oktave, Alfred K. Schacht HamburgJ |i.PAUL HARDCASTLE auf CHRYSALIS (Ariola) 107386