Letter to a Dad
Country Road CR-102 · USA
- Artist
- Jill Norris
- Title
- Letter to a Dad
- Release
- No, Not Really / Letter to a Dad
- Label
- Country Road # CR-102
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Norris
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
"Letter to a Dad" by Jill Norris Country. Daughter's father fighting in war dies. Military man delivers news.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I cried a tear last night, I cried, I've never felt so blue / Cause last night I wrote a letter dear, to you / 'Dear dad', it said, 'I miss you so, mum said there was a war / And you had to go, I didn't understand what she meant by war / But I do understand that you had to go away so far / Dad, mum says that I look like you, that made me feel good / Mum's kind of sad now, she doesn't laugh anymore / And she always seems sacred when there's a knock at our door / A man in a uniform came over last night, mum started crying... / Oh I cried a tear last night, god help me... / There was a war and you had to go / And you won't come home again
Notes
Country Road CR-102, white "DJ Copy" label, "Dist. by: International Artists"; "Letter to a Dad" (Norris), time 2:25, Tapier Music Corp. - BMI; produced by Ray Rush; matrix CR-5002. [From the record sleeve and labels]