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Khe Sanh lyrics video from Cold Chisel's 2011 Light the Nitro tour. This video was created just for the screens at the live concerts. It's a special treat for our Facebook fans, all 100k + of them.
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Lyrics:
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-Day heroes in 1973
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour
Saw an old friend but 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, pay-packets lean
And the telex writers clattered
Where the gunships once had been
But the car parks made me jumpy
And I never stopped the dreams
Or the growing need for speed and Novocain
So I worked across the country 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 worse 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
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
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 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 the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

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@MatthewLatter 9 лет назад

My dad told me once that when he was over in Scotland he was in a pub. He was drunk, so he got up and chose this song for karaoke. He then announced that '"any Australians who know this song, stand up and sing it with me". Apparently half the pub stood up and started singing this song. Shit I love Australia!

@kellyrussell190 9 лет назад

MiniMattMan123 I wanna do that now!

@brucedonnellan5564 7 лет назад

Kelly Russell .Any time , anywhere it is played, the crowd get into it.

@maudemaxwell1923 7 лет назад

Hell yeah

@itzzezit2174 7 лет назад

MiniMattMan123 fucking hell thanks mate I’m an Aussie down here in Kalgoorlie

@margaretbermingham1518 6 лет назад

what an honor to be in my 20's and having all this amazing music!

@wayneharvey4277 8 месяцев назад

I just heard an INXS song on the radio. Good times. I did a search on jimmy barnes and this came up. My time was in Afghanistan and this song still spoke to this old canadian vet. Aussie aussie aussie.

@RumMonsta 2 месяца назад

20 odd years before your time mate, and aussie as fuck, but it still gets me, maybe because dad was a VV but never spoke about it until I got back from my first deployment.

@WolfsH0ok Месяц назад

@@RumMonsta My Uncle was with the 25th Infantry 66/67 . He didn't speak about it until around 2001 Many neighbors didn't even know he served

@pixie3760 Месяц назад

Everyone came from Vietnam a changed person.

@curtist919 7 лет назад

It's so weird being a US Air Force vet and this Australian Vietnam era song hits closer to home than any of popular the US war songs.

@johndrum6613 6 лет назад

The whole family of Don Walker are prize winning novelists and poets. He himself is aPhD in Physics. There would never be anyway that a corporation or popular paradigm would dictate the construction of lyrics and music of this individual. Totally individual. Also, at the time there was a whole gut wrenching movement in Australia to accept that the VETs were not evil. They were screwed by the times in which they lived. The whole thing played was out in stinking sweaty bars and student unions across the country. It could not survive all that without the credibility to which I think you refer.

@ruthboykin9873 5 лет назад

Thank you for your service! I was a WAC 64-65. Noble Army Hospital, Ft McClellan Al

@Carrscreekcritter 5 лет назад

@@johndrum6613 Living here at the creek were he lent to play the piano and now hear the local stories of them wow that is great

@ben-vf 5 лет назад

Respect.

@xxMrBaldyxx 5 лет назад

@Eric Fapton a childish attempt at an insult

@samforwood4991 3 года назад

Earlier this year I was up in Darwin NT from down in Katherine. We were playing in a Masters 10's Rugby tournament and had a Mixed Club dinner at a Chinese restaurant in the City at the end of Day 1. One of the Club members a polynesian and a very fine muso at that, just happened to bring his guitar and pulls it out on arrival and launches into this song . In an instant the entire banquet room, about 35 men and women belt out Khe Sahn from start to finish . Everyone knew the lyrics, it is a bloody Aussie Anthem.

@emancipateu5879 5 месяцев назад

That's cool as thanks

@undersimplified 3 года назад

The US just pulled out of Afghanistan. Feels right to pay my respects for all those who died fighting doomed foreign civil wars for another people by listening to a song that so clearly depicts the struggle of those who served at arguably the most famous of these conflicts. My prayers go to the people of Afghanistan, that they may find a way to flee the Taliban and retake their homeland. May god/Allah bless you and give you strength.

@dfgmetal3624 3 года назад

The Taliban Have already taken over again Afghanistan is doomed

@Kalani_Saiko 3 года назад

@@dfgmetal3624 It is devastating

@sindupetterson4703 3 года назад

The waederer s

@dulinh5257 3 года назад

Love your saying but here I have a few things to say. For the first and foremost, the Vietnam War is NOT a civil war. There is NO reason making sense when an imperialist country set fire in a half-Earth way country with “peace purposes”. Second, although the world calls it “The Vietnam War”, we Vietnamese call it “The Anti-American Resistance War”. Lastly, Vietnam won over America. People keep saying that America won because they just made the tactical retreat, or America has less asualties than Vietnam. Following that kind of argument, the Nazi would have won the two World Wars because they had less casualties. In a war, both sides set their ultimate goal. Whichever side cannot claim their goal, they lose. We Vietnamese reclaim the country, we won.

@guyturnbull1308 3 года назад

@@dulinh5257 Glad to have stumbled by this comment. Thank you. Never have really in depth studied what the Vietnam war was about, but with recent Afghanistan developments, nothing appears to be the way it was framed. 20 years in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban just so they can take it back? Logical answer would be that it was never about the Taliban. And with Taliban removed was the the government much better? Reading about Benghazi boys, or whatever, which Governement didn't oppose, yet Taliban does...I'm not a Taliban sympathist but the middle east culture is in total conflict with western culture. 9/11. 2 planes. 3 buildings. Still stinks to high heaven to me.

@johnogier1925 4 года назад

Every Aussie loves Cold Chisel & Barnsy 👍👍🇭🇲🇭🇲

@gordoncbright 2 года назад

To All the past & present Vietnam veterans who were forgotten but finally recognised years later, and a moving song by Cold Chisel. 🎤🎵🇦🇺🙏

@mindfulness1118 2 года назад

Absolutely 🙏🏼👏🙏🏼🌟

@usmc-veteran73-77 Год назад

Thank you Gordon. Semper Fidelis from an old U.S. Marine Sergeant

@gordoncbright Год назад

@@usmc-veteran73-77 you’re welcome and thanks for your Service

@usmc-veteran73-77 Год назад

@Gordon C Bright you are welcome. As you know there was No parades for America Vietnam Veterans back in 1973. Semper Fi

@SuperMaraki21 7 месяцев назад

Seriously...what?😡🤡

@TheAussiepamela 9 лет назад

Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

@Andrew_h975 2 года назад

Hi there

@TheAussiepamela 2 года назад

@@Andrew_h975 Hi Andrew, My brother is a Vietnam vet with PTSD. He's met John Schumman. Khe Sanh always makes me cry.

@Andrew_h975 2 года назад

@@TheAussiepamela oh really , so how are you doing

@Andrew_h975 2 года назад

Where are you from

@TheAussiepamela 2 года назад

Originally from Newcastle, Australia but now living in Lincolnshire, UK. You?

@michael-bi6tr 10 лет назад

I served at Khe Sanh in the spring of 1968, it was a hotly contested piece of real estate, many Marines, Air Force, Army and Navy personal were killed and wounded there, I love the song, it tells a story of all of us returning

@jmtsicfav 10 лет назад

Thank you for sharing your story much respect to veterans from Australia

@samcocking6934 10 лет назад

brad todd everyone who served in vietnam should be remembered, YES even the Vietnameese, they have feelings to too

@j8kharr1s 9 лет назад

Thanks for sharing.. Can you tell me anything more about it?

@bewmdogg 8 лет назад

he can't because he's a fucking filthy liar

@billsmith6884 7 лет назад

So you know everything do you mate?

@ketaminekeith286 6 лет назад

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them

@peterrobinson9099 6 лет назад

Dennis Power lest we forget

@ryanmerlino1003 6 лет назад

LEST WE FORGET.

@roscosorbs5779 6 лет назад

help us to forget

@raadyusuf6763 5 лет назад

Lest We Forget

@DarkDreamsAndMoonlitNights 5 лет назад

Lest we forget.

@David-up7rv 11 месяцев назад

I JOINED YHE ARMY MAY 75 19 YEARS OLD. LITTLE DID I KNOW THE DRILL SARGENT WERE VEITNAM VETS. MY HAT GOES OUT TO THE BRAVE ME AMERICA SENT TO THIS STRANG COUNTRY. IT CHANGED AMERICA FOR EVER. THANKS FOR THE PROUD SOLDERES OF AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 💙 🙌

@MrDakadaka 6 лет назад

Even though this is a Vietnam war song I think anyone who has served in any military around the world can somewhat relate to this song in some way, shape or form. I dont have PTSD or severe issues but Ever since I've left the army I've felt I have lost my purpose in life drifting from place to place never feeling like I belong anywhere.

@aljohnson3010 6 лет назад

you and me mate

@andrewhansen1299 5 лет назад

Left the Army many years ago, hold down a steady job, am pretty normal in most respects...still drifting.

@jasonwilson2763 3 года назад

God bless mate.

@jamesmcdermott9275 3 года назад

My step dad who was a ww2 vet told me that he never felt more at home than when he was in the English army. He taught me about cleanliness and organisation when I was 10 years old.

@DrDoom890 2 года назад

I hope you found meaning mate. Thank you for your service❤️

@JimmyORizzle 2 года назад

Don Walker deserves so much more credit than he gets, Australia's greatest songwriter

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Год назад

never going to happen they are more interested in the shit Delta and Guy write. Dons work is far too intellectual for mainstream.

@shaytrueblueaussie Год назад

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425Shitty music sells well these days. Awful.

@robertdegraaf8708 Год назад

Paul Kelly and Nick Cave enter the chat.

@thevocalcrone 22 дня назад

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 where's my barf bag .. i'm glad i'm not alone with thinking Guy is a dribbler.

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 22 дня назад

@@thevocalcrone fingers crossed he reads this.

@uyraellsensenmann8931 4 года назад

Grandson of an ANZAC. May Our Aussie Cousins live as long as our Memories, in ours. In Aeternal gratitude, and Fraternity; Kind and Respectful Regards, Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@cefloach9019 3 года назад

love to the ANZACs for carrying us for several wars. Kind and Respectful Regards from across the Pacific, Ander, CA, USA

@uyraellsensenmann8931 3 года назад

@@cefloach9019 : I am reminded of the young Volunteers of 2nd Division, USMC, who arrived in my home city, Wellington, New Zealand, during May of 1942. Many were only 18 or 19, and the bulk of their junior officers were in their mid 20's, or younger. If any 'carrying' was done; and not for one moment do I doubt that such was-so; Believe Me, Friend, it was on all 3 sides: Americans, Aussies, New Zealanders. ALLIES we were and remain, all 3 Nations; regardless of the various doings of the rapidly declining UK. Kind and Respectful Regards CEF Loach, Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@victorwaddell6530 3 года назад

Thank You for allowing our submarines to replish in your ports during WW2 . From a US Navy vet .

@uyraellsensenmann8931 3 года назад

@@victorwaddell6530 Good sir! Without your aid, there-might never have been an place from-which to replenish. IN ALLIED Fraternity, Kind and Respectful Regards, Sir; Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@jurgschupbach3059 5 месяцев назад

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@redrup1969 4 года назад

when I was eighteen a beautiful australian girlfriend introduced me to cold chisel,her favourite joke was hey roo why do aussie guys come so quickly ?because they want to get down the pub and tell their mates,Liane Fryer if you're still alive I'm sorry missed the last plane out of sydney,biggest regret of my life.50 years old now.

@cringlez1096 4 года назад

@@Yeowiepower aww man you got me all in my feels bro

@ranceboreham6984 4 года назад

Hello, on here under my son's name but I went to school with Liane Fryer and there would only be one of her. Last I heard a few years ago she was living in Northern NSW around Dorrigo. You might find her on Linked In. We are no longer in contact - school friendships can become complicated. Australia is a beautiful country.

@redrup1969 3 года назад

@@ranceboreham6984 yes my friend there is only one liane friar and you are right she worked at a yoga retreat in nsw she was a physiotherapist when i knew her,she got pregnant with me in 1989 in london england had an abortion and left in the middle of the night,i called her mother in 2000 because i was in sydney working on olympics,i called her she screamed at me for two hours lol,she must be 60 now?god love her i was young and stupid best woman ive ever loved.

@redrup1969 3 года назад

@@Yeowiepower you are very sweet thank you,i did make it out there in 2000 i worked on the olympics lived in darling harbour, connected with liane,she was still mad ten years later lol.i love australia,a year after liane left i moved to canada,still there but never found love like that ever again.

@redrup1969 3 года назад

@@Yeowiepower i did have a prosperous life thank you joel, i have two beautiful daughters and have had a successful career but love like that has eluded me.

@hueflavor 10 лет назад

Khe Sanh is 165km from my house. Came there many times with travelers, the land has been relived. The local here gets warm hearts.

@guillemcamos Месяц назад

I'm from Barcelona and lived in Australia one year. Back there I used to play with an Aussie Rock band touring around the country and they were ones who showed me this song, what an anthem, it brings me so many good memories from that beautiful country. Damn, I miss having a VB and parma while watching an AFL game and listening to Cold Chisel. Keep rockin' Cush Ryder

@richardsrant5658 Год назад

Respect to all Vietnam vets who were treated with so much disrespect when they returned by people who had no idea what they had endured. You are true heroes. This song is for you.

@obiwankenobi3375 Год назад

I had a family member who was disrepcted but most of my family but fuck he was a hero to me

@carolinegodden4364 Год назад

@@obiwankenobi3375 GREATNESS 🥉 💋 🌟 🐦 🕊 🌌

@ducvu6377 Год назад

Iam Vietnamese, the invaders who killed children, many people in my country are heros? Shit for them, idot

@izackscally6406 Год назад

So much respect bro… losing people I care about because of said war when I was too young to understand makes me even more angry now I know what they went through… the poor cunts

@Liloldliz Год назад

they were drafted, we have to make sure conscription never comes back. it ruined so many lives

@georgehaynes394 4 года назад

Never heard of this band until yesterday as they aren't a household name in the UK, got to say this song and bow river absolutely blew me away!!! Instant love!

@avengernemesis7990 4 года назад

George Haynes.. Aussie music is just great! 👋👋

@georgeibrahim7945 4 года назад

Have you heard of John Farnham, check him out singing the Beatles song “Help” live with MSO

@georgehaynes394 4 года назад

Yes John Farnham did the voice song didn't he , he's got a good voice, I'll listen to that cheers

@georgeibrahim7945 4 года назад

George Haynes yeah that’s right he was never big overseas, look at this version of him singing help on his whispering jack tour I think in 1987 in Melbourne. His vocals for singing the song “Help” are awesome and look at the crowd how they interact with him. He himself also sings a song with Jimmy Barnes the member from cold chisel in a duet another song worth checking out “when something is wrong with my baby”

@rupertgrech7097 3 года назад

Great era of Aussie music ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-07oZHDgPiqo.html

@alysiaciottarello4703 9 лет назад

It's sad. The Vietnam veterans had to go through so much, had to endure horrors that no human would ever wish upon their worst enemy in their lifetime, and were welcomed back home by abuse and neglect. We respect you, V Day heroes! We are thankful for your service!

@akhan3682 9 лет назад

Alysia Ciottarello I believe the Vietnamese had it slightly worse (or maybe not?!)

@adznz11 9 лет назад

+moustachio cowboy They did. They had been at war for generations. We only remember the war we where involved in. Before us they had the french, Chinese and so on and so on. After the U.S lead invasion was fended off they finally had peace and an unoccupied country. Vietnam today is doing really well and is probably on of the fastest growing economy's in the world. What the west failed to admit was that communism was good for them it bound them together. Ironically in some ways though while America actually lost the war itself they kind of won the cultural battle. The introduction of western ideas really stuck with the people and today is as or even more capitalistic than alot of European country's today. Alot would say it was an entirely pointless war and in someway's that's true but i don't think Vietnam would be the country it is today Without the American influence it was exposed to during the war. The Vietnamese are an amazingly tough and resourceful people that only generations of real hardship can produce. I have alot of respect for them and they have one of the oldest cultures in the world a little known fact. Its a shame everyone's had a go at them. But it has made them what they are today. New Zealand was there to but today we have a good relationship with Vietnam as does Australia and America it speaks alot about their character as they are able to put things behind them and just get on with it. Admirable people.

@Rajj854 9 лет назад

yep, they really suffered. its so stressful bombing rice fields and thatched huts in some yellow country. those vets were the real victims. lets all not lose sight of that.

@adznz11 9 лет назад

No not saying they didn't as tough as it was for them i would venture to say they veit cong suffered more. The body count alone is glaring proof then you factor in the hardships they fought under. There was no medical fields. No dust off waiting for them to go to a warm beds with hot food. No air defence. Often only a little bag of rice to keep them going for days. Even the Vets them selves will tell you the cong where tougher than old boots. But at the end of the day they had one comfort the allies never had in that war. They really where fighting for their country. They believed in what they where doing. And i think the lack of that on the allies part (particularly for the conscripts) only compounded psychological war that the Vets suffered under. In the end there is no such thing as a good war but this one was particularly ugly for both sides.

@Rajj854 9 лет назад

+adznz11 Absolutely. I was just being sarcastic

@Mattube1983 Год назад

It’s not an Aussie party until this song plays at the end of the night

@grayh7529 10 месяцев назад

This and "I was only 19" 🇦🇺

@711ROWDY 5 месяцев назад

Guess my party is ending... F#$K the neighbours they can listen to it too

@friedchinese4465 5 лет назад

R.i.p to all the indigenous brothers who lost there lives in the war. my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

@daroachdoggjr1069 4 года назад

Was your grandad an American going into Vietnam?

@mistersmarteleimon1500 4 года назад

@@daroachdoggjr1069 There were Australians in Nam too iirc

@daroachdoggjr1069 4 года назад

Yes I’m aware, but I’m American; and I respect all who went into that war.

@daroachdoggjr1069 4 года назад

@It’s ya boy yes, I'm american and here in america we teach about our wars, in 8th grade we did a vold war unit focusibgbon Vietnam and Korea.

@sonofportsmith4435 4 года назад

It’s ya boy stop putting words in his mouth, he said he knew there were other countries

@MissGabi45 5 лет назад

Hell Yea!! Even us kiwis get stuck into it when this song comes on.. We do respect great Australian songs👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

@geoffreid88 4 года назад

Barnsey is a hero in nz

@CallumTalksTech 3 года назад

A true Anzac, nothing respect across the ditch

@saturdaybeavers4415 2 года назад

And vice-versa! Some great music from Aotearoa.

@peterfromgw4615 2 года назад

Mate, you Kiwis were with us in South Vietnam…..

@craigjohn3524 2 года назад

Great to know our anzac brothers love barnsey.but there is talent in new Zealand too.😉

@MMAEmperor 4 года назад

Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!!

@illuwe 4 года назад

He's an amazing man, and there is not a doubt in my soul he will be back stronger than ever.

@PUMA4LIFE101 4 года назад

I enjoyed watching whittake but I have known Izzy for years in NZ. Glas izzy won but did feel sorry for whittaker

@GM-qg7zb 4 года назад

The scary part is that he is just 28 he can be a champion again if he wants to

@BuR70N 4 года назад

He'll be back

@sixanddone9621 3 месяца назад

Best part of being an aussie born in the late 80's is your parents would pump solid music at bbqs nearly every weekend..

@stuckinseasia 9 лет назад

I just want to say that this song, as well as being the most well known pub anthem in Australia's history has special meaning to me. I came to Vietnam for a ten day holiday and four years later I live in Saigon and am married to a local. I used to listen to this song every day to give me a taste of back home, but now I use it to empathise with the feeling of living your life out-of-step... aching for something different from what you came from but not really sure how to fulfil it because you never truly fit in anywhere. I took a road trip out to Khe Sanh and everyone asked "Why would you go there ? It's in the middle of nowhere and there's nothing there". I just explained that Khe Sanh was the most well known song in Australia and a place of important significance because of this. They were right. The town is tiny and run down, the war memorial is overgrown with weeds and untended. But I still got my photo of myself standing beside a road sign that said "Khe Sanh 1km" just outside the entrance to town. Priceless.

@znicholas145 9 лет назад

Good onya, bud.

@morsul86 9 лет назад

Well said mate. You may be in another country but you know Australia is still with you. Hope you find what you're looking for.

@jbfrodsham 9 лет назад

Great stuff. I am the same as you, I play this song all the time. I have lived here in VN for 4 years and married to a local. I live in Bien Hoa and watch fighter jets from my flat roof taking off and landing on the old US/Aus air base. We should catch up :-)

@Brandon210-q4n 9 лет назад

+J Frodsham I performed this song at a school talent show 2 years ago. I remember all the teachers were jumping up down with excitement simply because a 16-year-old knew the song!

@Blackstock123 7 лет назад

my story isn't anywhere near as close to yours but I share similar sentiments, kiwi born but grew up in aussie I am now back in NZ but love both countries but I truly miss Australia and the aussie culture hence why I listen to such songs.

@alexsmith3164 Год назад

All stand, for the Australian National Anthem…

@usmc-veteran73-77 Год назад

Thanks for being there. Semper Fidelis from an old United States Marine Corps Sergeant

@SouEuSouEu-z9e 2 месяца назад

Brazilian too

@SouEuSouEu-z9e 2 месяца назад

Education

@glenstacey9247 Месяц назад

Flame trees

@christellealtenwerth1743 4 года назад

those 800 people who disliked, shame on you my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014 Why do we teach Shakespeare but not this in English classes?

@brandon6347 3 месяца назад

Those 800 people don't care bro. Chill

@user-fo1lc8bm1y Год назад

This song is beyond Brilliant! Not only does it poetically portray and honour the Australian Viet Vet; but it documents Australia's position on the periphery of Asia in the 20th century better and more skillfully than any academic or cultural historian ever has...

@TsarZaf 4 года назад

These guys were/are absolute timeless legends, such a shame they never blew up outside of Australia as much as they should have. One of the greatest bands period if you ask me. Their music will be played many more generations. Underrated.

@bunnykins8301 11 месяцев назад

That's 100% spot on a very underrated band

@guillermohoffmann8417 4 года назад

I'm a veteran from Malvinas (Falkland) war and after 38 years I will be returning to the island to pay respect to my fallen comrades. I'm argentinian living now in Brisbane and this song has been one I had listened over and over again..... now when I finally I'm closing the circle as Veteran coming back to the place I fought a bloody war...not being sure if it will be kinda healing time I can't help to remember this part of the song "I've been back to southeast Asia (Malvinas/South Atlantic for me)....and the answer sure ain't there......"...(even "and when the last plane out of Sydney almost gone...makes me remember those few times I lost the plane from Sydney to Brisbane....... bloody hell mate!! LOL)

@nathanmooney1617 3 года назад

Add me on fb Nathan oner would love to pick your brain abit. In Brisbane also. Cheers

@Ggdivhjkjl 2 года назад

Given the time stamp on your post, hope they let you go mate.

@MichaelRoosendaal 2 года назад

..You're being understood, Compadre..

@bigears4014 Год назад

The lyrics are real when you can read them , the torment of war on the brain

@marysouthgate830 5 лет назад

one of the best anti-war songs ever my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014 those 800 people who disliked, shame on you

@reginaldwooster235 Год назад

The best anti-war songs always respect veterans.

@huseyintopcu3370 6 лет назад

I'm from a city called "Kesan" in Turkey. One day while i was playing in a bar with my band, some Aussie guys came to listen to music and one of them told me about this song. Since then, I started to listen this song almost everyday.

@bayleamussen694 6 лет назад

Hüseyin Topçu Aussie Music ❤️

@indrazable 6 лет назад

well.. what a coincident..'Kesan' in Turkey..'Khe Sanh' in Vietnam :)

@anthonykane1250 5 лет назад

Great stuff mate..

@wadeluxon3588 5 лет назад

Good on you you have great taste

@ben-vf 5 лет назад

Australia now has a special bond with Turkey. We are now bonded as brothers.(and sisters) Not so much the English.

@mikaelalagerfors3374 5 лет назад

God bless Cold Chisel and the Song Writing by Don Walker...xoxoxox All rise for the national anthem.

@Indigenousaustralian 3 года назад

This song screams AUSTRALIA !!! ❣️🇦🇺

@tyruszealz Год назад

God bless everyone who has ever served, know it will never go unnoticed by most of us, we love you.

@OzzysRadioHalfHour 3 года назад

After a long flight from an overseas holiday. Hearing this on a flight on the way home on an overseas holiday. Nearly broke down in tears. Gives you chills.

@slaskigorol9538 Год назад

Jest rok 1993. Moja pierwsza wizyta w AU 🇭🇲. I w radio słyszę ! Cold Chisel!! Piękna muza ! Wtedy też byłem na grobie BON SCOTT. W port Fremantl West Australia 👍🇭🇲🇵🇱👍🎸🎸

@jamiemartinez8674 7 лет назад

Im American had 3 uncles serve in Vietnam, 2 came back alive. I was too young at the time to understand bit as I got older I got it.Thanks for your service Austrailia and I love this song...

@arthurburns1519 8 лет назад

Vietnam: I wasn't there, I didn't have to go. But I emigrated here, and I now live in Australia and this country has been very good to me. I won't tolerate bullshit about the guys who were sent to serve. Read and understand the history and the conflict. In my mind, this piece of music encapsulates the Australian/Vietnamese experience.

@mins2memories 2 года назад

totally relatable, as I write from Viet Nam. thanks for sharing.

@RootDoktorSangraal 3 года назад

I haven't heard this song since I feel in love with a beautiful Aussie woman almost 20 years ago. Lisa, you were everything to me. I pray you're doing well and happy.

@GoldCoast85 Год назад

🧡

@MrHollisterboi420 4 года назад

All rise for the national anthem. Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

@lmacca6651 3 года назад

I’m still here wondering why we don’t learn about Australian involvement in Vietnam at school. Here’s to all the vets 🍻

@callumtaggart9392 3 года назад

In NSW I did a whole term on it in year 9 back in 2005

@crispchaos4416 3 года назад

🍺🍻🍺

@andoo500 3 года назад

I learnt about it in year 5 or 6 around 2010 for a whole term

@managerialelitetoaster3456 3 года назад

Don't learn much about the New Guinea or Borneo campaign in WW2 either.

@kakattack9618 3 года назад

Don't learn shit about the Malayan Emergency either, it's because there wars they are ashamed of because Australia and our allies had no reason to get involved in it and we were absolutely hammered in both wars.

@coolsoap8 Год назад

This is one of the greatest songs ever made. 80's/70's music will forever be the best

@rachellynch50 5 лет назад

I'm only 26 years old and I'm a new Zealander and totally in love with this song

@seanh4841 10 месяцев назад

Kia Kaha my bro

@tisneyherenorthere 5 лет назад

As a Son of a Vietnam veteran,1964-65, who was still "technically" an Advisor to the ARVN's I thought I knew all of the songs about that terrible war. Figures, 1978 was still years away from MTV, and I doubt it highly they would have even played it. Much respect to the Australians, South Koreans, and other allied nations that slugged it out in a place that none of us should have even been there in the first place.

@joshua6393 Год назад

Not sure why, but I cried listening to this

@pixie3760 2 месяца назад

Because it hurts.

@user-tk5bm6cz2y 5 лет назад

Never realised how dark this song was My parents listen to this all the time and I never get tired of a bit of Cold Chisel its nice!

@l.hendleyeleanor7055 4 года назад

The unofficial Australian national anthem. All rise for the national anthem. Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

@razn4571 2 года назад

never heard this until i started working my first job in Australia (british born moved to Australia this year)... love this!!

@elizabethhann4028 4 года назад

[29 July 2020]: A poignant and beautiful song. A gritty heartfelt voice-of-the-forgotten-veteran folk song; right up there with John Prine's "Sam Stone" (which also tells the story of a Vietnam vet). All of my love to Don Walker, for writing the lyrics, and to Jimmy Barnes for singing them.

@jasonwilson2763 3 года назад

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda also a sad but lovely song about Aussies in WW1.

@pfdrtom 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, Australia. From Texas.

@nicholassherwin4292 6 месяцев назад

No worries tiger

@margathea7072 5 месяцев назад

No bloody worries mate ...enjoy!

@hejjsndhejsh8391 4 года назад

The Aussie version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

@UDimwit 8 лет назад

I just wanted to say thank you for all those awesome songs over the years.. I can not think of a greater Australian band than Cold Chisel..

@sharonmcgregor4792 Год назад

Love it...true Australiana...

@chrismartinofficial_ Год назад

@Sharon 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸💖

@kylekalashnikov1212 Год назад

I’m ex JGSDF (Japanese army) and was first introduced to this song by the ADF when they came to Japan for orient shield. It seems like a universal theme song for veterans 💯🤙🏽

@stylianosorphanoudakes56 5 лет назад

Amazing song and amazing band. I play the whole self titled disc every day in my car, when I go to work, especially this masterpiece wich ''travels me around the world from year to year''. Greetings by a fan from Thessaloniki, Greece my folks.

@lisanealon6242 11 лет назад

Love it! Any Australian of my age knows these lyrics before the national anthem. I remember being in a pub (The Ship Inn) at Expo 88 and started singing it with my mates. Every Aussie in the place joined in and the tourists loved it............. or maybe I was just drunk and remembered irt that way.

@AllThatIKnowNow Год назад

You're a legend Mossy, I remember when you came to Adelaide from Alice, to Marion High School and You guys, Cold Chisel won Battle of the Bands! Those were great times.

@usmc-veteran73-77 Год назад

Great song. So glad you all celebrated the end of the Vietnam War. In January 1973, when the War ended. No parades, no celebration, here in the United States. Thanks to all who were involved in this song. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine Sergeant.

@matics898 5 лет назад

Temon, estoy llorando. Recuerdo las selvas de dah nang y lo que la sufri ahi y este tema me lleva a esos momentos y mis amigos perdidos. STAND UP AND SALUTE THE FLAG

@kerrygraham3544 Год назад

Eu traduzi. Bom para você cobber.

@danielclarke3852 3 года назад

Brings a tear to the eye

@badinhbk 8 лет назад

From a Vietnamese guy: Thank you for uploading. Such an awesome song :D. I heard it the first time 2 weeks ago, when I did my first road trip from Brisbane to Whitsunday. The country-rock style was totally fitted with my mood.

@antt1979 5 лет назад

@@BillWalters-kx8sw its played only in tourist bars mate.

@philinn4788 Год назад

respect to the Vietnamese warriors who defended their county against the invaders

@JustMe-mg6vw 3 года назад

I wish as a Vietnam Vet 70 to 71, that we had the commaderie that you seem to have..

@Moon-il1te 4 года назад

Love from Khe Sanh- Quảng Trị- Việt Nam

@Creees Год назад

I just recently did a border run and drove through Khe Sanh 3 times. Its a beautiful mountain drive close to Vietnam Laos border but its super small. It felt very special being an aussie growing up with this song and seeing this town. Wow the hotel reviews are quite bad. They have a war monument as you drive through. Such hard times for all involved god bless both sides and especially Vietnam for always fighting off everyone who tried to take this special land away from them

@Kryptomaniacal 4 года назад

First time hearing this song thanks to the reaper. Jesus's this is an awesome tune

@terecee1204 4 года назад

I have the absolute pleasure to work for Open Arms and I hear the stories of veterans and counsel them through their PTSD. Thank you to all veterans past, present and future. You are brave, and heroic in my eyes. Thank you Cold Chisel for immortalizing the plight of our Vietnam Vets.

@Onceuponastreet 3 года назад

As the daughter of a vietnam Veteran - your service is open to me also. For that I thank you for your ongoing support. Especially with now what is happening in Afganistan. I appreciate hearing that the staff truly love doing their job ❤️

@samtw1979 6 лет назад

i'm glad i lived in aussie for 20 years. was introduced to the best of aussie bands over time. will never forget them.

@sebastiansmith8097 6 лет назад

We don't need patriotism, wealth or a thousand years of history, all we need is some good rock and that Aussie mate-ship found nowhere else in the world. I love you Australia

@CodPast Год назад

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh” - Jimmy Barnes This line makes me tear up every time

@BigDeerave 6 лет назад

My grandfather fought in Nam RIP Ray

@spadgm Год назад

Absolute timeless classic!

@allstarwatt7246 Год назад

👍

@arlionheart9744 7 лет назад

this is the aussiest of aussiest songs ever produced.

@arlionheart9744 7 лет назад

except these days HONG KONG would be replaced with BALI.

@tamsyn884 7 лет назад

ARLionheart idk down under is a pretty aussie song

@sub-nautical_chill4379 5 лет назад

ARLionheart Nah I dont want to come back and flood my dunny with puke...

@bronvanhelderheid4237 2 года назад

I have suffered from PTSD for a long time; and when it threatened to overwhelm me, I would play this song. Especially the line "And it's really got me worried: I'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurry!" would then press the right button.

@motoringmania8111 2 года назад

I met an old Vietnam Vet the other day, he had some stories to tell, and I could listen all day, thankyou to those who have served and are currently serving in the armed forces

@Guillermo1962 9 лет назад

I took that last plane outta Sydney in 2012....I miss Australia a lot...

@johncalabria1607 6 лет назад

Yeah I’m with you mate, it’s been three years now, coming home in December. First time I’ll be stepping on Australian since joining the US Military

@jasmineisaac4130 5 лет назад

It ain't that special

@mokeymadness12 5 лет назад

Always welcome back home brothers ❤🇦🇺

@k-leb4671 3 года назад

@@johncalabria1607 Wait, Australians can join the US military?

@johncalabria1607 3 года назад

@@k-leb4671 You have to be either a green card holder or a US citizen. I was naturalized through my father, who is a US citizen through marriage

@marksposito817 3 года назад

Me and my Regiment loved this song, seeming most of us were Sappers. Thanks Chisel!

@frazerman1 4 года назад

I was at a pub in thailand called the Australian and requested this song and they killed it! Will never forget that night

@sharonmcgregor4792 Год назад

Love you C Chizel...

@madilenurra7510 5 лет назад

Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget. God bless Cold Chisel and the Song Writing by Don Walker...xoxoxox

@michael-bi6tr 7 лет назад

We lost 18 USMC MARINES one day in battle, I was with them when it happened, the lyrics stating "I left my heart to the sappers around Khe Sanh" is real.

@primahlynx5585 3 года назад

This was my dad favourite song I played this song at his funeral a couple of years ago I bet now he’s kicking back having a beer watching over me

@sisenorrr 3 года назад

So sorry for your loss. I’m sure he’s always watching over you mate, stay strong 💪🏼

@francescodicasacavallo5386 6 лет назад

50 years ago these days...... 77 days of siege for a great Victory! Prayers for all KIA, you are always in our heart and soul! Semper Fi Brothers

@raulrecio92 Год назад

This song makes me want to go back and check things out again in Khe Sanh; and I’ve never been to Vietnam

@xlorenzolamm8037 4 года назад

Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget. my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014 those 800 people who disliked, shame on you

@desassa33 10 лет назад

My parents listen to this all the time and I never get tired of a bit of Cold Chisel its nice!

@antonsanipes6328 4 года назад

The Aussie version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget. All rise for the national anthem.

@jrewing2383 4 года назад

Fuck Bruce and fuck born in the DSA ' divided states of America' this song had so much more layers and so much meaning, and this comes from an American.

@gohjohan 2 года назад

That's a good comparison.

@cman3264 7 лет назад

Great memories living in Australia hearing Chisel and Jimmy Barnes all the time on the radio.

@davidlp3019 Год назад

still on the radio in Sydney in 2023 :)

@pretzel876 9 лет назад

In my life I've "travelled round the world from year to year". I took "the last plane out of Sydney" to go to Hong Kong on 14th January 2009. "Another seven flying hours and be landing in Hong Kong". This is a song that I can relate to abit :) x

@jarrahbeattie2795 9 лет назад

Ainsley Carter You don't know the true meaning.

@aquamelon0087 5 лет назад

On of my mates told me about when his family was on holidays in America and another Australian at the bar got up and started playing this. He claims like 30 of the people in that pub were able to sing the entire song. Pretty cool

@xuanvinguyenwright 5 лет назад

I cried for the song. My paternal grandpa worked with Australian recovery team during the war whereas my maternal grandpa worked as a VC. My maternal passed away, but I still remember him sitting in the same spot for over 10 years after the war. I was told several stories, but he would usually go crazy and scream if I asked him about the war. I know that both of them still suffer(ed) the pain and don't/didn't really want to remember it. So I feel really moved when I listen to the song. I wish I can/could translate it to them, but it will/would just remind them about a difficult time that they'd better off forgetting.

@theaussieyoutuber4887 9 лет назад

my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

@brandilee4056 8 лет назад

Respect brotha

@darlingharbourmassage370 8 лет назад

The politicians were to blame...not the viet nam people...show the liberals how you feel in 2016

@ellwaugh8796 8 лет назад

Liberal4life

@bewmdogg 8 лет назад

his birthday doesn't really work out liar.

@camb6017 8 лет назад

how does his birthday not work out? The war finished when his grandad was 23 mate, dont be a fuckwit and do the math before jumping to conclusions and being disrespectful

@rohanbailey2900 7 лет назад

18 years old and this is still a banger 🤘🤘🤘👌👌👌

@lukebrady3728 7 дней назад

Please be upstanding for Australia's national anthem. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.

@vanessaroberts1682 2 года назад

Just left the memorial at hide park Sydney and took a few beautiful photos especially of of the their clothes blades compass and the nurses outfits and boots with Vietnam mud on them took a photo of the flame and looked at the photo and the flame is a dove thay used them back then we love yous soldier's and THANK YOUS SO MUCH one last thing HOORAAAAHHH

@chrismartinofficial_ Год назад

@vanessa 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸💖

@SealAngel 2 года назад

Cheap wine and a chiko roll

@cheriemcleod-cv8hu 8 месяцев назад

I respect there time I Scotland totally

@andybrowne1561 5 лет назад

SEMPER-FI to the Marines who fought the hill fights. Never realised how dark this song was R.i.p to all the indigenous brothers who lost there lives in the war.