This is the greatest recording of this song, I'm sorry but this is the recording I grew up with, not the other ones on youtube. Glad to see this one is still around!!
It's the 2:20 part for me! I can't find this version on Spotify and it kills me inside 😭 they even play this one on the radio here! I need it in my life!
@@MELLYWENDT Yep 100% - compare the same line from the re-recorded, and now only verson you can get in high-bitrate ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ub7CRV8_e2g.html 2:19:99 Even with the lower quality recording and what sounds like compression artifacts from being maybe downloaded from RU-vid and re-upped again - it's this this one (is still better than the one I linked above).
As a Marine who fought during the "Battle of the Hill" at Khe Sanh, I wish I'd found this earlier. I knew about Cold Chisel, but not that they'd published this particular song. BRILLIANT!
Thank you Jay, this song is one of my all time favorites, I'm pleased the very tough hard young men like you were around in the day. , would the young men of today stand a chance under the same circumstances.
In high school (Australia 1999) our Society and Environment teacher sat us all down, handed out the lyrics and played this for us a few times. What a man.
This reminds me of driving round Australia in '96. Irish fella who owned the 1973 Toyota Hiace I was in, loved it. Had it going round and round. He was right. Great tune.
It never ends, just the drugs change, but the blood's always red and the PTSD is always real. Respect. I'm glad Vietnam was one where our women didn't serve.
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.
One of my all time favorite song amazing to think that cold chisel released this song on there first album in 1976 when no one wanted to mention Vietnam total respect to all services men and women from all sides and combatants, kia kaha
There are days when I feel ashamed to be a human. Our hypocrisy and disregard for others chills me to my core. But whenever I hear this song, it reinforces my belief in Australia. In our way of life. In our belief of giving our all for our mates, something instilled in every single Australian man, woman and child. I may not be proud to be a human, but by God I am proud to call myself Australian. God bless Australia.
Unfortunately, a lot of our way of life has been eroded since you posted this comment 11 years ago. Personally, I'm ex army, current serving police. Do I still consider myself to be a proud Australian? I'm honestly not sure anymore.
@iuudou2 Jay. Thank you for your service. This song was released in 1978 and banned by all commercial radio stations in Australia.. natrually it made no 1 . Australia in the Viet war period did no better than the US in our treatment of returned servicemen. as a 45 year old male I salute you. Thank you ..
I have a very soft spot i my heart for our Vietnam vets. Well done boys, Our boys could not do what they do today without you guys. You set the bar high. You guys are awesome.
I saw this played live last night, I am aussie, and the croud were aussie, regardless of the colour of their skin or their acent, it was beutiful and it was then i relized i could call the lucky land home :) god bless cold chisel and god bless australia!
@drillerchina hey man i appreciate everything the Aussies have done for the world, in WW2 they fought in the pacific when not many others would, and in Afghanistan...hats off to you boy! be proud!
I adore this song! Cannot wait to see Jimmy in March! 19 years old and love the man! Well said Bro. I'm an Aussie and you nailed it ewith that comment!
I love this song as well. Perhaps someday our peers will agree. Oh right sorry I am 16...that's why the whole peer thing works. If you have not you should try I was only 19 by Redgum.
Me and my mates drink ourselves stupid and listen to great aussie rock songs all the time, but who cares we have fun and dontharm anyone or trash anything. We just enjoy ourselves and sing along passionately and just love every second of it, drinking doesnt make you a bogan.
@stevelewis3 - Thank you for your kind words Steve. I've written several poems and have finally started on a book about PTDS and why so many of us could not function after our time there. For us, there was never a time when we were able to "just get over it", as some would have us do. And that was true for all veterans of all wars. It's too bad we here in the US never seem to learn that war is not the answer to anything.
** I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh And I sold my soul 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 1973 And 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, 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 And 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 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 worse 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 , melodi ** Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone You know there's 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 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
got one uncle with half a right hand (kiwi) and another trying to keep half his mind( aussie) from that war. they're both sweet as. we are a lucky bunch of bastards.
this song has become part of a tradition sort of thing at our parties. for us its not a birthday or a celebration unless this song gets played on the juke box. good song.
went to Khe San last year, hell of an eye opener to talk to the old locals, bit different to watching hamberger hill, platoon, full metal jacket and the rest of movies. Vietnam was a F(%*%cked conflict, both US and Oz troops were vilified for duing their "Duty" to the government. I was 1 yr from conscription (Australia) to this war I am so glad I never had to go, interesting as the locals only see Oz visitors due to this song, Oh yes they can all sing this song as well
Truly a TOP song! I posted it on facebook when over in Vietnam a few weeks ago only to find the original was blocked here in Aus' on copyright grounds. To see this song brought down to a debate about Aus' being involved in major wars alongside the U.S. throughout "modern" history is = to watching drunken uneducated teenagers argue over "who's Dad is tougher!"... Wake up you clowns! Its not a song glorifying WAR! Its about the scars & messed up lives left over at the end!
If we're going to be technical, there is a basis for a historical Australian grudge, but that's WWII era when the Japanese were coming through southern Asia, when we were basically told to fend for ourselves.
Love that someone did Cold Chisel lyrics vid....@ 30 seconds in, should read: "About the long forgotten Dockside guarantees.."... (Is to do with the terrible reception, and utter Lack of recognition for their service, suffering, and utter sacrifice that the Nam veterans suffered on arrival back home..[ across all serving nations], in stark contrast to the promises to the contrary, that they had looked forward to upon their return...Something that majorly contributed, perhaps most of All, in many ways, to the hardships suffered by those who served therein, and survived...)
@mcpheefive02011 Not only is Khe Sanh mentioned in Five-O but in COD Black Ops you fight in Khe Sanh. Love playing that level while playing this level.
Does anyone happen to know where this particular version of the song came from? If you compare this to the studio releases that featured Khe Sanh, there are subtle differences throughout the song. The lyrics, melodies and harmonies are different in this version to the album version. I'd love to know so I can hunt down a copy of whatever this is from
Three studio versions of "Khe Sanh" were released by Cold Chisel. The first featured on the band's 1978 debut self-titled album. A second version was included on the international version of the 1980 album East.[8] and omits the piano introduction. A third version with a re-recorded vocal from Barnes was released on the Radio Songs greatest hits album and all future compilations.
