Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel

If you read and listen to the lyrics you'll know it's about the Vietnam War. It was named after the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. According to Wikipedia it is about "a bitter and disillusioned Australian Vietnam veteran." "Censors gave it an A Classification, meaning that it was "not suitable for airplay", due to sex and drug references". Apparently the line; "their legs were often open, but their minds were always closed" was offensive to some. So it was pretty much banned everywhere, however, a radio station in Adelaide, South Australia played the song. Banning something tends to make more people want to have, do, read or hear it. It became extremely popular, one of the most popular songs ever recorded by an Australian artist. You could go so far as to call it 'iconic'. I really like the song. The thing that's really funny is, people always balls up the lyrics "the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone", they like to think it's a train. You can't catch a train from Sydney to Vietnam!!!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH07B90NFjE
Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel

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-dayheroes 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, paypacket 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 novacaine

So I worked across the country from 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 more for wear
And I've been back to South East Asia
And 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

Sorry about the shitty quality!!!