An Eleven Year Old Man
1970 · United Artists UA50634 · USA
- Artist
- Randy Harris
- Title
- An Eleven Year Old Man
- Release
- An Eleven Year Old Man / Visions
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- United Artists # UA50634
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- N. Simon, H. Jerome
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
An Eleven Year Old Man (Harris, Randy) Anti-war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: 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
Notes
United Artists UA50634, "Promotion Copy – Not for Sale", matrix UAST 5750; "An Eleven Year Old Man" (N. Simon, H. Jerome), 3:17, United Artists Music Co., Inc., ASCAP; arranged by Marty Gold & Henry Jerome; Liberty UA Inc., Los Angeles, California. [From the record sleeve and labels]