The Fall of Saigon

Officer 1

Sorry, Sergeant, we must accelerate

State department says we evacuate

The word is, we must be out

By dawn

Chris

I have to get my girl!

Officer 2

Sorry, Sergent, it's sraight from

Washington

No one leaves the grounds now, not

Anyone

A fast as we load the planes

We're gone

Chris

(But my girl is in there!)

Marine Captain

Okay! Keep quiet! Don't shout!

The Ambassador won't leave till

Everyone's out

The choppers're on there way there's

Room for you all

Marine 1

They're climbing over the wall!

All marines

Get Back! Tell you, don't shout!

The Ambassador won't leave till

Everyone's out

Marine 2

Th' Ambassador just sent an order to

Freeze

Marine captain

That's it! No more Vietnamese!

Get in!

Chris

But my girl's out there!

Kim

I'm the wife of a soldier

Oh please let me through

Help me, who must I pay?

Tell me what I must do

Chris

Let me out, I got to

Go back for my bride

Kim

Listen someone! My husband

Is waiting inside

Chris

Please Kim, hear the phone!

I can't get there

Please be home

Kim

(in the street)

Please Chris, no one sees!

I am lost here

Find me please!

Both

Please, get me through - I don't care

How

Don't take my love away, Not now!

Kim

Oh Chris,

Chris

Oh Kim,

Kim

I can't get free

Chris

Please get free

Both

Still I'm with you I am with you

Wait for Wait for me

Marine captain

Sorry Sergent, inside the Embassy!

We are pulling out now and there will be

No more reprives

Chris

I got till the old man leaves

Vietnamese 1

Take me with you!

Take my children

Vietnamese 2

I have a letter from...!

Vietnamese 3

I helped the C.I.A.!

All Vietnamese

They'll kill who they find here!

Don't leave us behind here!

Vietnamese 4

I've a wife who left already

Vietnamese 5

I've an aunt in New York!

Vietnamese 6

I have gold, I can pay!

All Vietnamese

There is no one to find here!

They have left us behind here!

Kim

I must get in there - Listen, anyone!

Please tell my husband...look, I have

his gun!

Vietnamese 7

Out of my way, if that's all you've

got

All Vietnamese

If I am here when they come, I'll be shot!

(Inside the compound: MARINES guard the roof

helipad)

Chris

Let me go John,

I can't leave her

Why in the world should I be saved

Instead of her?

All Vietnamese

They'll kill who they find here

Don't leave us behind here!

John

It's not you

It's war that's cruel

And if some dreams get smashed

Perhaps it's best they were

All Vietnamese and Kim

There is no one to find here!

They have left us behind here!

John

Wake up, my friend

Your mercy trip has failed

There's nothing you can do,

That ship has sailed

She's not the only one we'll have

Betrayed

All Vietnamese

Get to the roof, or els we are betrayed!

Kim

Oh Chris-

I still believe!

The heart of you

Is here with me

My heart, against all odds,

Holds Still