Long Time Coming Home
1984 · Hillbilly Heaven AGFA 468 · Lorton, Virginia
- Artist
- Larry Green
- Title
- Long Time Coming Home
- Release
- Long Time Coming Home / Hearts Working Overtime
- Year
- 1984
- Label
- Hillbilly Heaven # AGFA 468
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Lorton, Virginia, USA
- Songwriter
- Larry Green
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Released in Lorton, Virginia, USA, the song "Long Time Coming Home" (Hillbilly Heaven Records # AGFA 468) by Larry Green, is a post-war 80s country pop song about the Vietnam Vet memorial wall in Washington D.C. The song started with the spoken-word introduction: "as they unveiled the statue at the Vietnam Memorial I would like to dedicated this song to all the men and women who fought and died in South East Asia". The body of the song praised those who fought in Vietnam for the country, taking a patriotic, and pro-soldier position. It referenced the Wall in D.C., and people and veterans marching to remember those that died.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: When I was a young man I didn't understand the war in Vietnam / So I went and got an education, about the war in Vietnam / A lot of men died for what they believed in / They fought to keep their country free / They placed a marble wall in Washington D.C., for all the men who took the fall / Long time coming, long time.... / Long time coming home...long time coming... / Veterans marching in Washington D.C. / They march, old mother's sons, and all the men who never came home from the war in Vietnam / I went to pray just the other day / For the soldier of the unknown.... / For all the men who never came home from the war in Vietnam / Long time coming, long time coming / Long time coming home, long time coming
Notes
Hillbilly Heaven Records AGFA 468 (U-12511M), ©℗ 1984, black label with silver cowboy drawings; "Long Time Coming Home" (L. Green), 4:57, Earl Dixon Music BMI; produced by Earl & Mary Ruth Dixon, engineer Jim Robeson; distributed by Earl Dixon Music, 10001 Richmond Hwy., Lorton, VA. 22079. The picture sleeve (©1984) shows a black-and-white photograph of Larry Green singing at a microphone with a guitar, wearing a badge-covered hat and a shirt embroidered "Larry Rhythm/Vocals", with his autograph and the caption "Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist"; management, booking and fan club Earl Dixon Entertainment, Inc. The back lists: songs written by Larry Green; arrangements by Larry Green, Jeff Wise and Jim Roberson; band Heavy Country (Wally Burnette, bass guitar; Jeff Wise, steel guitar; Tom Rogers, harmonica; Danny Menzies, drums; Mike Parker, lead guitar; Joey Martin, rhythm guitar…