vietnam, and the killing is easy,
vietnam, and the killing is easy, bombs are droppin, and bullets fly.
 you' re days are numbered, there's no use in cryin
chorus just stay high my good soldiers, don't you cry.
vietnam, and the killin is easy, machine-guns rattle as choppers fly by (pollution's smokin, palladin rockets flyin) many good men dead, and their bodies pile higher-
monsoon rains and the humpin ain't easy, muddy trails in cold mountains high, ticks, bamboo, bullets, drain your life blood
dak to hills are high, angry, and haunted, pleiku plains lantana hedges grow high;
 them hobo woods have trenches like flanders--
repeat first verse
brian wizard, 181st assault helicopter co.
, the thunderbirds, sang the first verse,
the first 2 lines, and the line in parenthesis during his tour of vietnam, 'pollution' was a smoke laying helicopter, to ;
lay a smoke screen in front of the assaulting troops, 'palladin' was the name of the gunship, from the tv series 'have gun-will travel' the song is written out as I sing it.
 the hobo woods are now better known as the cu chi tunnels.
 they were first discovered by 1 bn, rar, serving as part of the 173rd abn bde in jan 1966.
 around 1 bn circles, even today, the story is told of machine-gunner ray payne guarding a trenchwhile a patrol was out.
 he saw 10 men moving down the trench towards him, at a range of 5 feet he realised they weren't the returning patrol--he stepped into the trench and fired down it --he lived! engineer snow wilson was the first man down the tunnel system, depicted in a diorama at the australian war memorial, connected to the outside only by a phone line to signaller carey mcquillen, they have each contributed songs to this collection.