Heart Of Indochine

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River



Where the musicÔÇÖs too loud



While I try to have my dinner



Stories IÔÇÖve been told of 1954



When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war



My friend Michael came in ÔÇÖ68



The bodies still floating



With the dinner boats sailing



Beside all those souls of the American war







(chorus)



Oh, deliver me to the river of souls



In the heart of Indochine



Deliver me to a River at Peace



In this twenty-first century



All those souls that floated free



In these dark warÔÇÖs waters



All the souls now swim together



The French the Viet Minh



Those American boys



The souls of the Saigon River



At peace in Indochine







I am in a caffeÔÇÖ in Ho Chi Minh City



My friend Bobby Muller is sitting with me



This traffic is maddening



In his wheelchair heÔÇÖs 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







(chorus)







Hoa binhÔÇŞHoa Binh, ("peace" in Vietnamese)



Peace in the Heart of Indochine