Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
1966 · Sims 308 · USA
- Artist
- Tommy Dee
- Title
- Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
- Release
- How's Your Momma 'em / Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Sims # 308
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tommy Dee
- Genre
- Pop · Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)" "Goodbye high school, hello Vietnam
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Goodbye high school, hello Vietnam / Goodbye to ball games and to senior prom / Please wait my darling, soon I'll be coming home... / With a gun on my soldier and an ache in my heart / I kissed Mary-Ann goodbye at the docks / Just 18 but needed by Uncle Sam / My folks think I'm just a boy / But the president calls me a man... / The jungle is hot and steamy, lord, I'm so afraid / What does it take to make a boy a man, big and brave / As I write this letter we go on patrol tonight... / It's 9o'clock, it's time to go...I pray tonight I won't have to kill / If you should receive this letter unfinished / You'll know a bullet found its mark
Notes
Sims Records 308B, "D. J. Copy"; "Goodbye High School" (Tommy Dee), 2:36, Hotpoint Music Inc., BMI; vocal by Tommy Dee. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Tommy Dee (Thomas Donaldson, born 16 July 1933 in Vicker, Virginia; died 26 January 2007) was a country DJ turned singer, best known for "Three Stars" (1959), the Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens/Big Bopper tribute cut with Ruby Wright, recording on through the 1960s without further chart success. "Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)" is the flip of "How's Your Momma 'Em" (Sims Records 308), confirmed in his Discogs discography. [Source: Wikipedia; Discogs; Legacy.com]