[Intro: solo accordion, slow waltz] [Verse 1] They built a camp in Florida Out of two-by-fours and sheet, And they walked it every night that summer Till they knew it in their feet. [Verse 2] They flew three hours in the dark With the lights all turned away, And they came down on the wrong camp, Four hundred yards astray. [Chorus] And the accordion played, the accordion played In the school across the wall, Somebody's accordion played all night, And only one man heard it at all. [Verse 3] Big men came out of the barracks In their undershirts and bare, And the yelling wasn't Vietnamese, And the music filled the air. [Chorus] And the accordion played, the accordion played In the school across the wall, Somebody's accordion played all night, And only one man heard it at all. [Verse 4] Then they flew to the right camp And they opened every door, And the record says the cells were empty, Nobody on the floor. [Verse 5] But an old man tells a young man There were three men on the floor, And one of them asked him, "Is this real?" And wanted a Lucky Strike, nothing more. [Bridge] Twenty-seven minutes on the ground, The record has that right. The rest of it's an old man's word And a song he heard that night. [Final Chorus: harmonies swell] And the accordion played, the accordion played In the school across the wall, Somebody's accordion played all night, And only one man heard it at all. [Outro: accordion alone, stops mid-phrase] [End]
