Story Behind The Song

written in Nam, about Nam, and what most folks did when they were off .

Song Description

About Summer of 69 in Phu Bai Viet Nam, while everybody else in the world seem to be at Woodstock, or someplace else Protesting.

Lyrics

Phu Bai 69 ? Mark Skinner
Written in Phu Bai RSVN 1969, while serving in US Army.
Digitized 2002 from Studio Tape made in Elgin 1973

It?s Five forty five in the afternoon,
Everybodys going yes there going somewhere
It?s Five forty five in the afternoon,
Everybodys going yes there going somewhere

We?ll won?t you, come along,
Won?t you, come together,
Won?t you, come along,
Won?t You
Come everybody and lets gather up the arms
Everybody is going down to the farm
Now theres a meeting in the bleachers most every night
Everybodies going to the hole tonight.

There stands a man, with a shotgun in his hand,
He?s gonna hit you, gonna shoot you, goona blow your mind in the sand.
Gonna rip a hole so wide, your head won?t know what to do
Everybody is going down to smoke some dew,
Why don?t you come in too.

I?m Coming, we?re going up together now.
I?m Mellow, every fellow come along
I?m gonna show you how, I?m gonna show you how,
Your gonna join us now alright,

Is that dried clay your sitting on my friend,
Or is it sandstone, might I ask you once again.
Do you know what it is or does that shotgun Come around too fast
Is that dried mud your sitting on my friend.

You may climb the walls of Dover, but you can?t climb these walls here
The holes not for climbing, you fly when you come down here
If you try I?ll shoot you donw with that shotgun coming round
Theres a meeting in the hole, everybody?s getting down,
Going round, up and down, all around , ok head!

It?s Five forty five in the afternoon,
Everybodys going yes there going somewhere
It?s Five forty five in the afternoon,
Everybodys going yes there going somewhere

We?ll won?t you, come along,
Won?t you, come together,
Won?t you, come along,
Won?t You