This was written by the keyboardist Don Walker from the point of view of an Australian soldier returning from the Vietnam war. Australians had more to do with Nui Dat than Khe Sahn like the Americans but Nui Dat wouldn't sound the same!
An unusual arrangement - this song breaks all the rules, has no chorus .. tells the story of a returning vet, troubled and restless, PTSD, eventually heads back to Hong Kong for some cheap sex 😂 Most Australians know every word..
@@mrmockatoo6786 Dr_KAP is correct. Don Walker himself described it as the type of song that would be written by an author who had yet to learn the established forms of songwriting. "It doesn't follow any of those rules, it has no chorus. The punchline of it is a line out of a verse, it had nothing to do with the title. Walker said he "killed a couple of afternoons" putting down the lyrics, "for my own enjoyment and amusement," in the days before the band had a recording contract. "If I had imagined anybody would see those lyrics, I probably would have written them a bit differently."
@@Laraine3 Far be it for me to argue with Don Walker, you or the incredibly ubiquitous Kapster, I was just commenting that the plane/Sydney part was the closest thing to a chorus in the song. being oft repeated.
@@mrmockatoo6786 I agree and I thought the same about that line and then read this on the Conversation:- “For a start, Khe Sanh has no chorus. It uses a song structure that is less common in the modern era known as one-part - or AAA - form. One-part refers to the fact that one musical idea is repeated throughout the song, and AAA is a more technical form of song structure analysis where sections of music are assigned letters, with different letters for different sections. AAA, clearly, is a situation where all sections use the same musical material. Another commonly used word for the form is strophic.” Apparently it is repetition of a popular verse line, kinda like cockatoos repeat stuff 😉
@@mrmockatoo6786 ubiquitous 🤣 one of these days I’ll get a real life or even some sleep 🤦♀️.. on a long break from work and I just can’t do TV - it isn’t interactive enough for me.
The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January - 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. The main US forces defending Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) were two regiments of the United States Marine Corps supported by elements from the United States Army and the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as a small number of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops. These were pitted against two to three divisional-size elements of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam
Khe Sahn was a US base in Vietnam, there was a big US Battle there, a few Australians where there on army and personal business at the time and got caught up in the fighting, but also Australian Chopper Pilots would fly in overloaded with Ammo wile taking heavy ground fire, and would fly out with wounded. there where more men in in the aircrews flying in and out than where traped on the ground. the Song is about a Vet caught on the fringes of "Normal" society, he works high paying short term gigs only to blow it all on Booze, Sex, Drugs and world travel trying to run away from the War, come to terms with it and try to find himself again. This song and "I was only 19 (a walk in the light green)" by Redgum helped the general public come to terms and again except our Vietnam Veterans, it also helped the Vets come together and sheer their experiences and begin to heal.
Songs about a veietnam vet and struggles to adapt to life afterwards. You should do ‘you got nothing I want’ song about their rejection by the American big wigs.
Monty Mate! Speak to one of your Vietnam Vets. They would be able to explain it better then anyone, also get them to listen to this song. They’ll understand it, hell man they lived it.
Let's be honest, Jimmy could sing a shopping list and make it sound like 🔥. Like the lyric video as didn't need to cut it up. Would much prefer you stop and chat to get it through copyright rather than cut it.
this song is about a war that conscripted Australian men and boys by the American President L.B.J. to go fight a war that Australia should have never got involved in. It tells of the suffering he saw and how hard it was to try and fit back into society. Perhaps you should try and find a Vietnam Veteran and ask him if he would like to react to this song with you. And then ask him to stick around and react to "I was only 19 (a walk in the light green") by another great Australian band Redgum. If you want to blow up on you tube, that will help you.
Don Walker writes most of the songs for Cold Chisel some from Ian Moss and Jimmy Barnes This song was written by Don about a friend that come back from the war cheers
Yes, it's a Vietnam vet's story struggling between his experience in-country & home, "no V-day heroes in 1973" because they were spat on & booed. "Carparks make me jumpy" "I'm going nowhere in a hurry" it's all there to read in the lyrics. Khe Sahn pronounced 'Kay San' was a fire base that was almost overrun by the Vietcong and NVA. The French lost their own fire base in the 1950's called Dien Bien Phu when they surrendered & it was an international disaster/embarrassment for them. America found herself in the same situation in 1968 when they were there. It became so desperate that C130 transport aircraft would land with the ramp down, throw out all the supplies & take off without even stopping as the base was under constant artillery & mortar attack. Cold Chisel wrote an Australian song/anthem about our Vietnam war but used an American experience as inspiration.
Khe, is pronounced like Kay. Back in the day Sydney Airport was the gateway to the world, meaning only international flights arrived & departed from Sydney then you'd need a connecting flight to the other state capitals. And like everybody in the comment section has said, this is the unofficial national anthem, along with over songs like Great Southern Land by Icehouse This is Australia by Ganggajang I Still Call Australia Home by Peter Allen We Are Australian by The Seekers Down Under by Men At Work altho the song is putting shit on how Straya sold themselves to other countries by foreigners especially the Chinese & Japanese countries buying something that they had no right sell
Shout out from The Gold Coast, QUEENSLAND! I love Jimmy Barnes too! Real Aussie Legend! But if your interested check out “Beds Are Burning 🔥 “. Midnight Oil! And also another Aussie Legend is John Farnham - his our Frank Sinatra of Australia 🇦🇺 cheers, Kate
Pronounced Kay S-aahn.. (Kay S-anne in US).. A big village/battle in the Vietnam War.. 1963-1972 A sapper is an Army Engineer.. V Day is Vietnam Day.. (they never had one until a few years ago). Barnsey has done a few jobs but nothing like in the songs.. he has been in bands (especially in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia) since he was a teenager. The harmonica player jams out at local blues venues. Oz has fought side by side in every war with the USA since we Federated in 1901. (First joint service was 1904, under Australian Command).
Nice work, brother! ✌😄 The Aussies and the New Zealanders were the only 'western' nations that went in alongside the US. This tune is one of our national anthems.
Pronounced "Kay San". This song is a fictionalised account of the experiences of a returning Vietnam vet to Australia. Written by Don Walker, the keyboard player. It was banned from radio back in the day due to the "Legs were often open" line.
This is a more 'country' version of Khe-Sanh (Kay-San). You'd like the heavier version more probably. Chisel would've been the biggest Aussie band throughout the 80s I'd reckon. Though there's so so many more you've not heard or heard of Keep enjoying👍🤘 💡 Do an Australian music week dude🤘🤘🇦🇺 (& get some Spy vs Spy (v.spy v.spy) onto your channel)👍 ✌️
How did I miss this one? Their first big hit from their first album. Cold chisel is one of the most solidly great bands ever, from the beginning to the end, well, they still get together. But always tell a good story, relevant and heartfelt, their songs have a lasting influence.... On me anyway. 😁 There's plenty of excellent bands in this country that the world missed out on, like Chain with black and blue, Masters apprentices with turn up your radio, Billy Thorpe with children of the sun, the loved ones with the loved one and ever lovin'man, the easy beats (although they did have a big hit that knocked the Beatles off their spot on the English charts in the 60's with their song Friday on my mind), with lead singer Stevie Wright, who had a big hit with Evie part 1, 2 & 3. You might also like Rose tattoo's rock and roll outlaw (my favourite) and to quote Molly Meldrum, host of us older Aussies favourite music show countdown, "Do yourself a favour", and check out Jeff St John singing Teach me how to fly. Those are all just the rock and rollers, there's plenty of great pop artists as well. But I think that'll keep you going for quite a while. 😂😉
Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool live performance at the concert for Bangladesh. That way you'll get to see what was a cultural phenomenon from the past called Sharpies. Dancing like no other. It's worth a watch just for the dancing.
You might want to check out Jimmy doing a cover of Deep Purple's 'Lazy' with Joe Bonamassa again - I think it was done the same session he did "Stone Cold' - Instrumentally fantastic version
If you want to know how to get around having videos blocked check out ThatSingerReacts look at His reaction to Delta Goodrem Wing's. To see how he gets around it. I suggest this one because it's live from the voice and they always block videos.
Love your stuff matey. If you want to hear Cold Chisel chipping the music industry, try their song, "you got nothing I want". Serious rock song :) Keep it up buddy, from far north Qld, Australia
the tough job is going to Vietnam war , young and conscripted. Coming back to discover youth of the nation are angry at each solider for participating in a war , they do not agree with.
I gotta tell you mate, our Aussie society NEVER truly forgets it's soldiers... no matter what fucked up situation the Yanks (read USA) get us involved in (before the Yanks it was the British who led us on the Highway to Hell... and, more often than not, left us there!). Most sentient Aussies know about our involvement in the Vietnam war, and what a waste of life it was.
@@samueladams9237 I seriously doubt that the Yanks were sacrificing themselves for Oz mate... the fact that they needed a base closer to the fight was more likely the case... and it didn't happen until we Aussies first turned back the Japanese from entering Port Moresby! Btw, I spent the first 10 years of my life in Northern PNG, and I do love Pacific history as it pertains to that area.
There is still a foul taste in Australian mouths about the Vietnam war. A lot of spite of following the the US into a situation that funked a whole generation of young men's minds in Australia. Jimmy is too young to be a vet. IN ANOTHER SONG OF THERE'S 'Working Class Ma' one line says 'still mad at uncle sam'.
This was written by the keyboardist Don Walker from the point of view of an Australian soldier returning from the Vietnam war. Australians had more to do with Nui Dat than Khe Sahn like the Americans but Nui Dat wouldn't sound the same!
An unusual arrangement - this song breaks all the rules, has no chorus .. tells the story of a returning vet, troubled and restless, PTSD, eventually heads back to Hong Kong for some cheap sex 😂 Most Australians know every word..
I think "the last plane out of Sydney" might be the chorus...it gets a fair run in the second half, Kappy... eeeeeh?
@@mrmockatoo6786 Dr_KAP is correct. Don Walker himself described it as the type of song that would be written by an author who had yet to learn the established forms of songwriting. "It doesn't follow any of those rules, it has no chorus. The punchline of it is a line out of a verse, it had nothing to do with the title. Walker said he "killed a couple of afternoons" putting down the lyrics, "for my own enjoyment and amusement," in the days before the band had a recording contract. "If I had imagined anybody would see those lyrics, I probably would have written them a bit differently."
@@Laraine3 Far be it for me to argue with Don Walker, you or the incredibly ubiquitous Kapster, I was just commenting that the plane/Sydney part was the closest thing to a chorus in the song. being oft repeated.
@@mrmockatoo6786 I agree and I thought the same about that line and then read this on the Conversation:-
“For a start, Khe Sanh has no chorus. It uses a song structure that is less common in the modern era known as one-part - or AAA - form. One-part refers to the fact that one musical idea is repeated throughout the song, and AAA is a more technical form of song structure analysis where sections of music are assigned letters, with different letters for different sections. AAA, clearly, is a situation where all sections use the same musical material. Another commonly used word for the form is strophic.”
Apparently it is repetition of a popular verse line, kinda like cockatoos repeat stuff 😉
@@mrmockatoo6786 ubiquitous 🤣 one of these days I’ll get a real life or even some sleep 🤦♀️.. on a long break from work and I just can’t do TV - it isn’t interactive enough for me.
Their legs were often open but their minds were always closed.😅
The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January - 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. The main US forces defending Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) were two regiments of the United States Marine Corps supported by elements from the United States Army and the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as a small number of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops. These were pitted against two to three divisional-size elements of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam
Khe Sahn was a US base in Vietnam, there was a big US Battle there, a few Australians where there on army and personal business at the time and got caught up in the fighting, but also Australian Chopper Pilots would fly in overloaded with Ammo wile taking heavy ground fire, and would fly out with wounded. there where more men in in the aircrews flying in and out than where traped on the ground.
the Song is about a Vet caught on the fringes of "Normal" society, he works high paying short term gigs only to blow it all on Booze, Sex, Drugs and world travel trying to run away from the War, come to terms with it and try to find himself again.
This song and "I was only 19 (a walk in the light green)" by Redgum helped the general public come to terms and again except our Vietnam Veterans, it also helped the Vets come together and sheer their experiences and begin to heal.
Sydney is the capital city in New South Wales Australia.
Songs about a veietnam vet and struggles to adapt to life afterwards. You should do ‘you got nothing I want’ song about their rejection by the American big wigs.
Monty Mate! Speak to one of your Vietnam Vets. They would be able to explain it better then anyone, also get them to listen to this song. They’ll understand it, hell man they lived it.
This is almost an anthem in Australia if you're over 40. Great review.
Exactly, everytime the song would come on in club's & pubs everybody with stand, hand on ur heart & belt it out
Let's be honest, Jimmy could sing a shopping list and make it sound like 🔥.
Like the lyric video as didn't need to cut it up. Would much prefer you stop and chat to get it through copyright rather than cut it.
this song is about a war that conscripted Australian men and boys by the American President L.B.J. to go fight a war that Australia should have never got involved in. It tells of the suffering he saw and how hard it was to try and fit back into society. Perhaps you should try and find a Vietnam Veteran and ask him if he would like to react to this song with you. And then ask him to stick around and react to "I was only 19 (a walk in the light green") by another great Australian band Redgum. If you want to blow up on you tube, that will help you.
Getting Vietnam veterans to react to this & ONLY 19 is a fantastic idea! Maybe even AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 thank you, now all we need to do is convince him.
Check out an old band called Daddy Cool "Eagle Rock". A definite thumbs up from me. 👍
@Harry Betteridge can you not read?
a lot of south east asian night club districts ,skippy bars etc have Cold Chisel as a mainstay for decades
Don Walker writes most of the songs for Cold Chisel some from Ian Moss and Jimmy Barnes This song was written by Don about a friend that come back from the war cheers
Yes, it's a Vietnam vet's story struggling between his experience in-country & home, "no V-day heroes in 1973" because they were spat on & booed. "Carparks make me jumpy" "I'm going nowhere in a hurry" it's all there to read in the lyrics. Khe Sahn pronounced 'Kay San' was a fire base that was almost overrun by the Vietcong and NVA. The French lost their own fire base in the 1950's called Dien Bien Phu when they surrendered & it was an international disaster/embarrassment for them. America found herself in the same situation in 1968 when they were there. It became so desperate that C130 transport aircraft would land with the ramp down, throw out all the supplies & take off without even stopping as the base was under constant artillery & mortar attack. Cold Chisel wrote an Australian song/anthem about our Vietnam war but used an American experience as inspiration.
Never worked oil rigs lol Jimmy joined Cold Chisel when he was only 16
“And I never stopped the dreams” he says... they are nightmares of the horrors he saw in the Vietnam war.
love that line "going knowhere and in a hurry"
Young Man you know music.
Jimmy Barnes Daylight Live 1984
Please please please
Almost every Aussie knows this song.
Khe, is pronounced like Kay.
Back in the day Sydney Airport was the gateway to the world, meaning only international flights arrived & departed from Sydney then you'd need a connecting flight to the other state capitals. And like everybody in the comment section has said, this is the unofficial national anthem, along with over songs like
Great Southern Land by Icehouse
This is Australia by Ganggajang
I Still Call Australia Home by Peter Allen
We Are Australian by The Seekers
Down Under by Men At Work altho the song is putting shit on how Straya sold themselves to other countries by foreigners especially the Chinese & Japanese countries buying something that they had no right sell
Check out a band called Spectrum and their song called "I'll be gone" love you work mate
Shout out from The Gold Coast, QUEENSLAND! I love Jimmy Barnes too! Real Aussie Legend! But if your interested check out “Beds Are Burning 🔥 “. Midnight Oil! And also another Aussie Legend is John Farnham - his our Frank Sinatra of Australia 🇦🇺 cheers, Kate
its about returning home from war
Pronounced Kay S-aahn.. (Kay S-anne in US).. A big village/battle in the Vietnam War.. 1963-1972
A sapper is an Army Engineer.. V Day is Vietnam Day.. (they never had one until a few years ago).
Barnsey has done a few jobs but nothing like in the songs.. he has been in bands (especially in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia) since he was a teenager. The harmonica player jams out at local blues venues.
Oz has fought side by side in every war with the USA since we Federated in 1901. (First joint service was 1904, under Australian Command).
kay san
Nice work, brother! ✌😄 The Aussies and the New Zealanders were the only 'western' nations that went in alongside the US. This tune is one of our national anthems.
Pronounced "Kay San". This song is a fictionalised account of the experiences of a returning Vietnam vet to Australia. Written by Don Walker, the keyboard player. It was banned from radio back in the day due to the "Legs were often open" line.
Also the Drug references where he admits to being a Speed (Meth) and Novacane (a Sedative and pain blocker normally used in Dysentery).
I heard this on the radio in NZ all the time when I was a kid.
Don Walker said he loosely based this song on the experiences of two Vietnam vets he knew.
You asked after watching Stone Cold by Jimmy and Joe Bonamassa if there any more by both of them try Mustang Sally. This one won't be blocked.
This is a more 'country' version of Khe-Sanh (Kay-San). You'd like the heavier version more probably.
Chisel would've been the biggest Aussie band throughout the 80s I'd reckon. Though there's so so many more you've not heard or heard of
Keep enjoying👍🤘
💡 Do an Australian music week dude🤘🤘🇦🇺
(& get some Spy vs Spy (v.spy v.spy) onto your channel)👍
✌️
This is the original version first chisel single ever
And definitely need some spy's! Don't burn it down 🙂
@@peterdubois65 don't Tear it down
@@sandgroperwookiee65 shit! Lol I know that I've heard the song nearly every week for over 30 years
I'd put Chisel above Acca Dacca & INXS as the country's most loved band.
How did I miss this one? Their first big hit from their first album. Cold chisel is one of the most solidly great bands ever, from the beginning to the end, well, they still get together. But always tell a good story, relevant and heartfelt, their songs have a lasting influence.... On me anyway. 😁
There's plenty of excellent bands in this country that the world missed out on, like Chain with black and blue, Masters apprentices with turn up your radio, Billy Thorpe with children of the sun, the loved ones with the loved one and ever lovin'man, the easy beats (although they did have a big hit that knocked the Beatles off their spot on the English charts in the 60's with their song Friday on my mind), with lead singer Stevie Wright, who had a big hit with Evie part 1, 2 & 3. You might also like Rose tattoo's rock and roll outlaw (my favourite) and to quote Molly Meldrum, host of us older Aussies favourite music show countdown, "Do yourself a favour", and check out Jeff St John singing Teach me how to fly. Those are all just the rock and rollers, there's plenty of great pop artists as well. But I think that'll keep you going for quite a while. 😂😉
rosee tats made it pretty good in US and Europe
A cult hit only. This song was banned from the radio their first top ten hit was Cheap Wine off the East album
Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool live performance at the concert for Bangladesh. That way you'll get to see what was a cultural phenomenon from the past called Sharpies. Dancing like no other. It's worth a watch just for the dancing.
You might want to check out Jimmy doing a cover of Deep Purple's 'Lazy' with Joe Bonamassa again - I think it was done the same session he did "Stone Cold' - Instrumentally fantastic version
If you want to know how to get around having videos blocked check out ThatSingerReacts look at His reaction to Delta Goodrem Wing's. To see how he gets around it. I suggest this one because it's live from the voice and they always block videos.
I recommend driving wheels, I'd die to be with you tonight and Saturday night. They have so many hits for you to still check out 😁🐨
Kay as in May, San as in sand. It's an area in vietman
You need to check out the live version of this song, the harmoica playing makes it 👌
Love your stuff matey. If you want to hear Cold Chisel chipping the music industry, try their song, "you got nothing I want". Serious rock song :) Keep it up buddy, from far north Qld, Australia
If you like Diesel, you should have a look at “Short Cool Ones” an album by Diesel and Chris Wilson. Enjoy!
Sydney, capital city of NSW, largest city in Australia, do they teach American's anything out side their own country !
This about a man who has returned from the Vietnam war.
Nar he was a tradie sparkle you'd know as electrician
Sydney is a city in Australia 🇦🇺 The country their from
Guy.... You need to understand what it is about>>>>>>> A returned VET trying to live life and find his place
Pronounced Kay- san.
K San Vietnam War.
the tough job is going to Vietnam war , young and conscripted. Coming back to discover youth of the nation are angry at each solider for participating in a war , they do not agree with.
I gotta tell you mate, our Aussie society NEVER truly forgets it's soldiers... no matter what fucked up situation the Yanks (read USA) get us involved in (before the Yanks it was the British who led us on the Highway to Hell... and, more often than not, left us there!). Most sentient Aussies know about our involvement in the Vietnam war, and what a waste of life it was.
probably paying back the for the tens of thousands of young "yanks" who lost their lives saving our arse in the Pacific war.
@@samueladams9237 I seriously doubt that the Yanks were sacrificing themselves for Oz mate... the fact that they needed a base closer to the fight was more likely the case... and it didn't happen until we Aussies first turned back the Japanese from entering Port Moresby! Btw, I spent the first 10 years of my life in Northern PNG, and I do love Pacific history as it pertains to that area.
Pronouced kay-san.
change Vietnam to Iraq or Afghanistan - war is shit
There is still a foul taste in Australian mouths about the Vietnam war. A lot of spite of following the the US into a situation that funked a whole generation of young men's minds in Australia. Jimmy is too young to be a vet. IN ANOTHER SONG OF THERE'S 'Working Class Ma' one line says 'still mad at uncle sam'.
Highly overrated song here in Australia. Gets played more often than I fart, and I fart a lot.
yep out of ya mouth