I Am the Six O'Clock News

I got a ticket for southeast Asia
 I packed my camera and press card badge
 They only paid me to stay the weekend
 What if I never come back?
 The flight was pretty rough
 I got a room, took a sauna
 The bell boy gook put my bags on the bed
 He left without his tip
 Then I loaded up my Hasselblad full of film
 And I stepped outside
 I'm taking pictures of burning houses
 Colored movies of misery
 I see the flash of guns
 How red the mud becomes
 I've got a close up view
 I'm the six o' clock news
 What can I do?
 Military coups
 What can I do?
 All those kids without shoes
 What can I do?
 I'm just the six o' clock news
 I got a suite at the Saigon Hilton
 Cocktail parties with premiere Ky
 We talk about how the war is goin'
 And watch his color TV
 I'm the six o' clock news
 What can I do?
 Drinkin' black market booze
 What can I do?
 I'm red and white and true blue
 What can I do?
 I am I am I am I am the six o' clock news
 Catch my plane flight back to the mainland
 Fall asleep to the engine's drone
 I see the flash of guns
 How red the mud becomes
 I've got a close up view
 I am I am I am I am I am the six o' clock news
 What can I do?
 Guerilla rendezvous
 What can I do?
 All those kids without shoes
 What can I do?
 I'm just the six o' clock news
 What can I do?
 Napalm tattoos
 What can I do?
 I am I am I am I am I am the six o' clock news
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