Heroes in Black Stone
1986 · Power PD 5700 · USA
- Artist
- Glenn Garrett
- Title
- Heroes in Black Stone
- Release
- Heroes in Black Stone
- Year
- 1986
- Label
- Power # PD 5700
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Glenn Garrett, Kathy Garrett, Wayne Kirkpatrick
- Genre
- Rock · Pop Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The post-war 1980s song "Heroes in Black Stone" (Power Discs # PD 5700) by Glen Garrett - originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he moved to Franklin, Tennessee.1 He wrote this song for the 1986 Veterans Day service at the memorial wall in D.C. In his book, he said that Senator John Kerry (Massachusetts), Senator Al Gore (Tennessee), and Senator John Warner (Virginia) asked him to write the song.23 Narrated in the first person, the protagonist approached the Wall, reading the names. Release on the Power Discs label, a subsidiary of Benson Records, based in Franklin, Tennessee. Songwriting credit went to Glenn Garrett, Kathy Garrett, and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Produced by Glen Garrett.Sources1Hot Hits: Ac Charts 1978-2001 (Jeffrey Lee Brothers, 2003)↩2Google News Archive↩3Google Books↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Veterans Memorial Wall Songs
The post-war 1980s song "Heroes in Black Stone" (Power Discs # PD 5700) by Glen Garrett - originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he moved to Franklin, Tennessee.1 He wrote this song for the 1986 Veterans Day service at the memorial wall in D.C. In his book, he said that Senator John Kerry (Massachusetts), Senator Al Gore (Tennessee), and Senator John Warner (Virginia) asked him to write the song.23 Narrated in the first person, the protagonist approached the Wall, reading the names. Release on the Power Discs label, a subsidiary of Benson Records, based in Franklin, Tennessee. Songwriting credit went to Glenn Garrett, Kathy Garrett, and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Produced by Glen Garrett. Sources1Hot Hits: Ac Charts 1978-2001 (Jeffrey Lee Brothers, 2003)↩2Google News Archive↩3Google Books↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Quietly I walked the Wall, one last tear for all / Silent honor paid to every name engraved / To the heroes in black stone, to the heroes... / I saw the children's eyes, surveying line by line / Daddy, who are these men? Did you know any... / For the courage you have shown, for the pain that we don't know / For the ones who made it home, for the heroes in black stone... / One by one they came, a father who gave up his son / Wives and mothers cry, a friend who fought and still survives / He placed a rose against the wall, one last tear for all... / Quietly I walked away / Healing took place today / A single friend had done the honor work of twenty-one guns, for the heroes...
Notes
Power Discs PD 5700 (U-17158), Side A, white label marked "For Promotional Use Only, Not for Resale"; "Heroes in Black Stone", 3:37, written by Glenn Garrett (Paragon Music Corp., ASCAP), Kathy Garrett (Cut Above Music, ASCAP) and Wayne Kirkpatrick (Emily Booth, Inc., BMI); produced by Glenn Garrett. ℗ 1986 DeGarmo & Key, © 1986 Power Discs Records, distributed by the Benson Co. Inc., 365 Great Circle Rd., Nashville 37228. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Nashville, Tennessee, USA.