Eleven Year Old Man
1970 · United Artists UA50634 · USA
- Artist
- Randy Harris
- Title
- Eleven Year Old Man
- Release
- An Eleven Year Old Man / Visions
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- United Artists # UA50634
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
An Eleven Year Old Man (Harris, Randy) Anti-war In an empty bombed out village in the heart of Vietnam My friend and I had run into an eleven year old man We heard the lonesome strumming of a broken down guitar And heard a frail voice singing from a burned out army car One hundred years we had fought to be free To be free to belong to ourselves For twenty years we had fought the French And now we are fighting ourselves His mask like face was hard as stone His voice was sad and fine Without the slightest trace of pride
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
An Eleven Year Old Man (Harris, Randy) Anti-war "In an empty bombed out village in the heart of Vietnam / My friend and I had run into an eleven year old man / We heard the lonesome strumming of a broken down guitar / And heard a frail voice singing from a burned out army car / One hundred years we had fought to be free / To be free to belong to ourselves / For twenty years we had fought the French / And now we are fighting ourselves / His mask like face was hard as stone / His voice was sad and fine / Without the slightest trace of pride"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "An Eleven Year Old Man" b/w "Visions" (United Artists UA/SUA 50634, 1970), with US promo and stereo pressings and an Australian pressing licensed to Festival Records. Discogs disambiguates the billing as "Randy Harris (2)". The title's premise reads as a novelty conceit; there is no evidence the performer was a minor, recorded as a title observation only. No biography located. [Source: Discogs]