Homesick Soldier
Voice of Country VOC 132 · USA
- Artist
- Big Jim Ashford
- Title
- Homesick Soldier
- Release
- Women and Wine / Homesick Soldier
- Label
- Voice of Country # VOC 132
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Jim Ashford
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
"Homesick Soldier" (Voice of Country # VOC 132) by Big Jim Ashford - recorded on the Nashville, Tennessee based label, distributed by the larger country music label Stop. No further information on artist or label. Plight of the soldier, narrated from soldier's perspective. Feeling lonely in Vietnam - has not received letter from loved one in a long time, wonders whether she has left hi for someone else (a familiar theme in this area). Also reports on the death of the soldier's army buddy. "I'm a lonely homesick soldier sitting here tonight in Vietnam and I'm so blue And my eyes are blurred with tears as I try to write to you Darling, I'm so homesick, don't know what to do I keep looking everyday for a letter dear from you But you haven't wrote me for so long You promised that when I went away you'd write me everyday Now I'm wondering if someone has taken my place with you I'm a lonely homesick soldier, sitting here tonight in Vietnam and I'm so blue... Darling, you remember my buddy Tom, we came here just a year ago tonight We'd been together for so long he seemed just like my brother to me They shot him yesterday, and as he fell dead right beside of me I knew right then that I'd…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - no citable documentation of 'Homesick Soldier' found on Discogs, 45cat, Praguefrank's, or trade archives; no label or year could be established.