Just Remember Me

Annotation

The song "Just Remember Me" by the Creations (Globe Records # C 102), a Chicago soul group, whose members were Eugene Amos, Charles Boyd, Gerald Dickerson and Michael Wiggins - the final three went on to form The Contributors of Soul. They also worked with the Detroit soul group Brothers of Soul (who released a Vietnam War song a few years later in 1969 - "Wait for Me"). This song told the story of a soldier on his way to Vietnam: "the boys in Vietnam are waiting for me to come". The new soldier asks his sweetheart not to forget him, and that it is better if they remain just friends because "I may never see you again". However, he does not know this for a fact, so just in case, he pleads with her to "remember me".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Girl, it's been so good the times that I've spent with you / Sweet loving, but my dear, sit down and listen / The boys in Vietnam are waiting for me to come / I don't want to go, but it must be so / So all I want you to do, it to just remember me girl / I'm so afraid that I may never see you again / So I think it would be better if I leave you as a friend / I don't know for a fact that I'll never come back / So all I want you to do, is to just remember me / Girl while I'm away, write everyday / So that I won't feel so sad / All the good times that we had / I love you so and this you already know / So all I want you to do, is to just remember me

Notes

Globe C 102 A, light-blue label; "Just Remember Me" (Middlebrook & Dickerson), Colfam, Giant Ent., time 2:30. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes

Soldier's Perspective

In collections

Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs · US Combat Perspective Songs [War Years]