John Denver – Readjustment Blues (Guitar)

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Just out of the infantry this 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 warned me,

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What the readjustment blues would do to me.

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"Welcome to Havannah", said the pilot,

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"We must have made a wroooong turn on the way."

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"Let's buy some cigars and keep it quiiiet,

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If they don't know we're here we'll get away."

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Just as I had realized he was joking,

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I saw we were in Washington D.C.,

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'Cause there was all the patriotic buiiiiildings.

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Just like I had seen them on T.V.

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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 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.

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There was the flag I'd fought against so often,

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The one I fought for hanging upsiiiide down,

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The wind was blowing ha-AARD, the dirt was flying,

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It made the city sky-YY look dark and brown.

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I saw a girl…    she could have been my sister,

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   Except her hair was lo-OONG and in her face,

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She explained…  this was a demonstraaaation,

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Against the war… and foooor the human ra-AAACE.

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Now I've seen a lot of strange things in my travels,

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Cannibals, yes…   and aliens galoooore,

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But I never thought I'd see so many peeeople

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Saying we don't want your + + + wAAA-aa-aar!

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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 myy-yy duty chose waaar

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   They carried guuUUNS just like 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 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 Re-adjustment Bluuuuuuuuuuuues

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Got through to meeeeeee-eeeee