Hell in Vietnam
Rimrock RS 216 · USA
- Artist
- Ben Showalter
- Title
- Hell in Vietnam
- Release
- Hell in Vietnam / The Way That I Am
- Label
- Rimrock # RS 216
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- B. Showalter
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
"Hell in Vietnam". Country track, plight of the soldier, about platoon surrounded by Vietcong, soldier wishing he was back home.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: For home and kin the soldier longs / And also an end to the Vietcong / How many more must I cut down / To be sent back to my home town / If I don't reach those trees ahead / This hole will serve as my death bed / The mud hole I've been lying in / The past three days and nights... / Whether we have a purpose here, I'm not qualified to know / I don't claim to be a genius, I'm just another Joe... / Someone comes and reads this note I leave here on this ground / Lord I hope he has more luck then I can here and found / Alone and lost this platoon...to be tortured by the enemies / Who are hardened by their aim
Notes
Rimrock Records RS 216-A, 45 RPM, red label with deer and mountain scene; "Hell in Vietnam" (B. Showalter), Oleta — BMI; "Rimrock Records .... Concord, Arkansas". [From the record sleeve and labels]