Nanci Griffith - Heart Of Indochine lyrics

rate me

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River

Where the music's too loud

While I try to have my dinner

Stories I've been told of 1954

When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war

My friend Michael came in '68

The bodies still floating

With the dinner boats sailing

Beside all those souls of the American war

(chorus)

Oh, deliver me to the river of souls

In the heart of Indochine

Deliver me to a River at Peace

In this twenty-first century

All those souls that floated free

In these dark war's waters

All the souls now swim together

The French the Viet Minh

Those American boys

The souls of the Saigon River

At peace in Indochine

I am in a caffe' in Ho Chi Minh City

My friend Bobby Muller is sitting with me

This traffic is maddening

In his wheelchair he's napping

I wonder at times, does he walk in his dreams?

Later I walked all the way from Tu Do Street

To the banks of the river

With the dinner boats sailing

Beside all of the souls, of a River in Peace

(chorus)

Hoa binh…Hoa Binh, ("peace" in Vietnamese)

Peace in the Heart of Indochine