Big Time in the Jungle Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Down in Eutaw, Alabama [C]in [G]1965
A [D]young man ‘bout 21,
no dif[C]ferent than you [G]or I
He's [Am]catchin' catfish,
and gettin' [D]drunk
But Uncle [Am]Sam called,
he called [D]him up
Sent him out to Vietnam
[G]

[Verse 2]
That [Am]young man
Got his [D]life turned upside down
Turned his smile into a frown
Robbed that king of his crown
For an ideal he didn't even know about
[G]

[Verse 3]
He [D]was gamblin' at the wagon
when that [C]army man showed [G]up
And he [D]flashed that pen and paper
And [C]ol' Flukie he signed [G]up
There's gonna [Am]be a big

[Verse 4]
time
in [D]the jungle
Gonna be [Am]a firefight
Gonna be a [D]rumble
Send me out to Vietnam
[G]

[Verse 5]
I'll fight [Am]ten men
I got [D]nothin' left in the States for me
I wanna see the world you see
I know that Uncle Sam needs me
To fight for an ideal

[Interlude 1]
I know nothing about
[G][D][C][G]
[D][C][G][Am][D]
[Am][D][G]

[Verse 6]
Oh the [D]drop point was dusty
and the [C]drill sergeant was [G]loud
And he could [D]not see the corpses
for the [C]ragin' dust [G]cloud
Grab [Am]your duffle

[Verse 7]
bags,
head to [D]the checkpoint
Welcome to Vi[Am]etnam, boys,
you're in for a [D]hell of a fight
Take it from the ones [G]who know

[Verse 8]
[G]
The army [Am]moves slow
Hurry up and [D]wait, don't sleep late
And learn to hate your brother
Before you hate your foe
[G]

[Verse 9]
On [D]patrol out in the rice fields,
them [C]choppers flew [G]low
[D]Glancing for the hand signal
[C]to tell you where [G]to go
Then the bombs [Am]started fallin'
And they pounded his [D]brain
And he thought [Am]about Eutaw and
who was [D]to blame

[Outro 1]
For sendin' him to Vietnam
[G][Am][D][Am]
[D][G]