Christmas Without Daddy
1966 · Decca DL-74817 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Loretta Lynn
- Title
- Christmas Without Daddy
- Release
- Country Christmas
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Decca # DL-74817
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Country · Nashville Sound
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Country singer Loretta Lynn included the Vietnam track "Christmas Without Daddy" (Decca Records # DL 74817) on her festive album. It is narrated from the perspective of a soldier's wife. She said that Christmas would be "sadness mixed with joy...blue and all alone". The soldier's son "wrote to Santa", asking for his father to be sent home, as him present. Thus, this song represented the impact of the war on families in the US.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Christmas Day is getting closer but there's sadness mixed with joy / Every day a few more questions from our little girl and boy / Not alone but there'll be lonely for their daddy won't be here... / We'll send a prayer and all our love to you so far away / Your son just wrote to Santa asked him to send you home / Yes Christmas without daddy we'll be blue and all alone
About the artist
Born 14 April 1932, Butcher Holler, Kentucky, USA