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 ninety seventy-three

How we sailed into

Sydney Harbour

I saw an old friend but

I couldn't kiss her

She was lined and I was home to the lucky land

And she was like so many more from that time on their lives were all so empty 'till 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 novacaine

So I worked across the country for end to end tried to find a place to settle down

Where my mixed up life could mend 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 but the answer sure ain't there

But I'm drifting north to check things out again yes I am

I know the last plane out

Sydney's almost gone in only seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong

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

Yeah, and 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 and oh, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone yeah, and the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, ooh

And it's really got me worried

I'm goin' nowhere and

I'm in a hurry

And oh, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone