Vietnam Cowboys Lyrics - Working Man's Cafe - Ray Davies

You better top off your suntan 

Otherwise your skin's gonna to turn to leather 

We'll make a movie in Vietnam 

Tax break said we're gonna shoot on location 

The rug says made in Korea 

Manufactured in a factory using cheap labor 

And all over Asia 

The third world's becoming a major league player 

[Chorus 1] 

Mass production in Saigon 

While auto workers laid off in Cleveland 

Hot jacuzzi in Taiwan 

With empty factories in Birmingham 

Now it's baby boomers in Hong Kong 

And cowboys in Vietnam 

Making their movies 

[Chorus 2] 

Big confusion in Hollywood 

Now it's American Major League in Japan 

Hamburger in China 

With sushi bars in Maine and Boston 

The dollar sign said expand those 

Now it's cowboys in Vietnam 

Making their movies 

Wake up in the White House 

Zip up your pants and get it together 

Take a look at your overseas neighbor 

Look at their strange behavior 

Take a look at your wigwam 

Inside it says that the product is Asian 

Once it was only in movies 

Now it's a product invasion 

[Chorus 1] 

You better top up your suntan 

Looks like we're in for heavy weather 

Economic meltdown 

Nobody said it would last forever 

Let's make a movie in Baghdad 

Take the culture right to the Third World 

Blow up a brand new civilization 

In the name of globalization 

[Chorus 2] 

Watch out! 

Ride off with your debts into the sunset