Karaoké Khe Sanh Cold Chisel & Jimmy Barnes

I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh

And my soul was sold with my cigarettes to the blackmarket man

I've had the Vietnam cold turkey from the ocean to the Silver City

And it's only other vets could understand

About the long forgotten dockside guarantees

How there were no V-dayheroes in ninetee seventy-three

How we sailed into

Sydney Harbour

I saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss her

And she was lined and I was home to the lucky land

She was like so many more from that time on

Their lives were all so empty until they found their chosen one

And their legs were often open but their minds were always closed

And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains

And the legal pads were yellow hours long, paypacket lean

And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been

The car parks made me jumpy and I never stopped the dreams

Or the growing need for speed and novocaine

So I worked across the country from end to end

I tried to find a place to settle down where my mixed up life could mend

I held a job on an oil-rig flying choppers when I could

But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend

And I've travelled round the world from year to year

And each one found me aimless one more year the more for wear

And I've been back to South East Asia

You know the answer sure ain't there

But I'm drifting north to check things out again

Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

And only seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong

And there ain't nothing like the kisses from a jaded Chinese princess

I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long

Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

And it's really got me worried

I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

Yeah, you know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

Yeah, it's really got me worried

I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone