Freedom Boys
Tin Pan Alley 53-549 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Mike Thomas
- Title
- Freedom Boys
- Release
- Too Young / Freedom Boys
- Label
- Tin Pan Alley # 53-549
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Glenn Dalman
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Freedom Boys (Thomas, Mike) Song poem. Garage rock. Patriotic. Combat description. Anti-communist
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Freedom Boys" - Label: Tin Pan Alley # 53-549 - Songwriter: Glenn Dalman - Song poem. Garage rock. - Patriotic. Combat description. - Anti-communist
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: The sunsets in its usual way, he made it through another day / Another day of grime and mud, another day of sweat and blood / Here like 10 thousand others guys, made it through this day alive / But some didn't make this day we're through, but paid them with there highest due / Caught ? an ambush ? each trying hard to close the gap / Paying with their youthful lives, leaving lover and a wife / Why must this awful war go on, why overseas in Vietnam / Why must we pay this terrible price, in human torment and in life / Why can't they eat and ? come home and live in freedom's land / Because my son if we quit now and pull our troops above the ground / Of each and every hill we've won, that country soon would be overrun / And commie flags would fly over there and justice soon fly everywhere / So here is to you boy, son and man, we give you boys a great big hand / A great big thanks for all you've done, not for terror ? / But for a freedom you preserve, may god grant blessing you deserve
Notes
Tin Pan Alley Records TPA 53-549B ("Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off."), light-blue label; "Freedom Boys" (Glenn Dalman), Juke Box Alley (ASCAP), time 3:45; Tin Pan Alley, Inc., Lake Grove, New York 11755. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American song-poem vocalist: house singer for the New York-based Tin Pan Alley song-poem label in the 1960s, credited with recording thousands of song-poems, including many Vietnam-themed titles; 'A Fearless Soldier' (1967) was anthologised on Bear Family's 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' (2010). [Source: Bear Family 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' / song-poem collector archives]
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]