A Letter for Christmas
1968 · Checker LPS 10050 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- The Salem Travelers
- Title
- A Letter for Christmas
- Release
- A Christmas Dedication
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Checker # LPS 10050
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- R. Bass
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs
Letter for Christmas, A (Salem Travelers) (Checker Records # LPS 10050) 1968 The Salem Travelers. Various artist compilation. Christmas. Soul Formed 1962, Chicago, IL, United States 1 "I received a letter from my brother fighting Over in the war, he wrote me brother, I want To come home, but tell the family I'm just too Far, tell mama I want to come home, tell her I wish I could come home for Christmas Wish I could be there, he wrote it's bad living Here, everyday your'e living in fear, knowing When you lay down at night, in the morning You might not be here, I wish could come home Wish I could make it home, wish I could make it For Christmas...this is between you and I, I might Not see the family again...tell them I said goodbye Sources1A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music (Robert M. Marovich, 2015)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Formed 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Themes
In collections
US Domestic Perspective Songs [War Years] · Christmas Songs · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs