Dear Mama
Govinda GO11 · USA
- Artist
- Ward Frederick
- Title
- Dear Mama
- Release
- Dear Mama / Sound of My Life
- Label
- Govinda # GO11
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Ward Frederick
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Dear Mama" by Ward Frederick - claims that it is neither for or against the war. But the narrator, a soldier in Vietnam, expresses major doubts about the purpose of the war and the lack of support from home, suggesting that there should not be a war. Category: anti-war. Reference to anti-war demonstration. Singer/songwriter
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Dear Mama" b/w "Sound Of My Life" (Govinda Records GO11, undated, folk/country) - the label name suggests a devotional (Hare Krishna-adjacent) private imprint, and both Discogs listings print the credit "Ward Frederick" as the master has it. No biography was found under either name order. [Source: Discogs]