Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
1966 · Sims 260 · USA
- Artist
- Tommy Dee
- Title
- Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
- Release
- Missing While Surfing / Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Sims # 260
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tommy Dee
- Genre
- Pop · Pop
Annotation
The song "Goodbye High School (Hello Vietnam)" "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"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
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]