Johnny's Not a Toy Soldier
1970 · Z Record 1651 · Popular Bluff, Missouri
- Artist
- Bobby Zehm
- Title
- Johnny's Not a Toy Soldier
- Release
- Johnny's Not a Toy Soldier / You Give Me a Reason
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Z Record # 1651
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Popular Bluff, Missouri, USA
- Songwriter
- Robert Zehm
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Johnny's Not a Toy Soldier (Zehm, Bobby) Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Country. Early 1970s. Johnny not a toy soldier, not a game He is in Hanoi fighting. Paris Peace talks are under way - taking too long, many more are dying War going on for over a decade, we must not fall to the communists Johnny to young to vote for politicians who sent him to war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Johnny's Not a Toy Soldier (Zehm, Bobby) Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Country. Early 1970s. Johnny not a toy soldier, not a game He is in Hanoi fighting. Paris Peace talks are under way - taking too long, many more are dying War going on for over a decade, we must not fall to the communists Johnny to young to vote for politicians who sent him to war Both patriotic, and anti-war sentiment
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American country singer active from the early 1960s to the 1980s; early sessions possibly in Poplar Bluff, Missouri (some sides issued as 'Bobby Darrell'); recorded at Glaser Sound Studios, Nashville, in 1969 with producer Johnny Russell, releasing the album 'Presenting Bobby Zehm: Without Your Love' on his own Z Record Company / BZ label. Personal biographical details not documented. [Source: Praguefrank's Country Discography / Rate Your Music]
Themes
Soldier's Perspective · Hanoi · Paris Peace Accords · Anti-War
In collections
Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs