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TITLE: The Longest Year A Collection of Songs by Advisors and Civilians in the Vietnam War

AUTHOR/COMPILER: Brigadier Thomas Bowen and Lydia Fish, Editor Lisa Harmon

BRANCH OF SERVICE: Mostly Army and civlian

UNIT/AGENCY:

NATIONALITY: USA

DATE: December, 1990

PLACE: Buffalo, NY

SOURCE: Compiled from tape and manuscript sources collected by Bowen and Fish

NOTE: Compiled in 1990 by General Thomas Bowen and Lydia Fish. Songs are mostly from Army and Civilian tradition.

LOCATION: LMF files

CONTENTS:

1. Air America

2. Arrivederci Saigon

3. Away in a Hamlet

4. The Ballad of Co Van My (My American Advisor)

5. Ballad of CORDS

6. Body Bag Song

7. Buddha Bless Saigon

8. Colonel Nighn

9. Danang

10. Dashing Through Pleiku

11. Deck the Halls With Victor Charlie

12. Don't Take My Counterpart Away

13. Don't Tell Me I've Nothing to Do

14. The First Hotel

15. Fourteen Days Leave

16. Friendly FAC and Green Beret

17. Ghost Advisors By and By

18. Ghost Advisors II

19. God Rest Ye, General Westmoreland

20. Here Comes Pavn

21. I Met A Gal in Old Saigon

22. Infiltration

23. I've Laid Around and Stayed Around

24. I've Stayed Too Long

25. Jake Song

26. Jot Song

27. Landlord Fill That Nuoc Mam Bowl

28. Let's Do It

29. The Longest Year

30. McNamara's Band

31. MACV Fight Song

32. MACV Fight Song II

33. MACV Marching Song

34. The Methvenspoof Song

35. Montagnard Sergeant

36. O Little Town of Ban Me Thout

37. Our Forces Are Advancing

38. Penta-prime Medley

39. Picture of a Man

40. Rangers in the Night

41. Recon Song

42. Self Defense Maiden

43. Service Flag Song

44. Six Clicks

45. Sixth Regiment Fight Song

46. Sorry About That

47. Special Forces Song

48. Strategic Hamlet Song

49. Streets of Saigo

50. They Cal Me A MACV Advisor

51. Those Viet Cong are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine

52. 'Twas Coup Day

53. Voices of the Dead

54. [T]welve Days of Christmas

55. Uncle Ho Chi Minh Looked Down

56. We Are Winning

57. We Gotta Have Khanh

58. We Have Pacified This Land One Hundred Times

59. We're A Pack of Bastards

60. When ARVN Comes Marching Along

61. Yellow Rose of Saigon

62. You Better Bug Out

NOTES UPDATED: 11 April 2025