Heart Of Indochine Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River 

Where the music's too loud 

While I try to have my dinner 

Stories I've been told of 1954 

When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war 

My friend Michael came in '68 

The bodies still floating with the dinner boats sailing 

Beside all those souls of the American war 

Oh, deliver me to the river of souls 

In the heart of Indochina 

Deliver me to a River at Peace 

In this twenty-first century 

All those souls that floated free 

In these dark war's waters 

All the souls now swim together 

The French the Viet Minn 

Those American boys 

The souls of the Saigon River 

At peace in Indochina 

I am in a caffe in Ho Chi Minn City 

My friend Bobby Muller is sitting with me 

This traffic is maddening 

In his wheelchair he's napping 

I wonder at times, does he walk in his dreams? 

Later I walked all the way from Tu Do Street 

To the banks of the river with the dinner boats sailing 

Beside all of the souls, of a River in Peace 

Oh, deliver me to the river of souls 

In the heart of Indochina 

Deliver me to a River at Peace 

In this twenty-first century 

All those souls that floated free 

In these dark war's waters 

All the souls now swim together 

The French the Viet Minn 

Those American boys 

The souls of the Saigon River 

At peace in Indochina 

Hoa binh, hoa binh 

(Peace in Vietnamese) 

Peace in the heart of Indochina