Credited on the record as Jackie Raye with the Rhythm Kings.
Loving a Soldier
1971 · RK DB-31471 · USA
- Artist
- Jackie Raye
- Credited on the record as
- Jackie Raye with the Rhythm Kings
- Title
- Loving a Soldier
- Release
- Loving a Soldier / Take This Star
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- RK # DB-31471
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- J. Raye
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Loving a Soldier (Raye, Jackie) (DB-31471) Country. Impact of the war at home. From perspective of a soldier's sweetheart. "Loving a soldier is a hard game to play
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Loving a Soldier (Raye, Jackie) (DB-31471) Country. Impact of the war at home. From perspective of a soldier's sweetheart. Small patriotic sentiment - fighting for peace
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Loving a soldier is a hard game to play / In fact there's little of it that's gay / It's mostly heavy and not to hold / It's being young but feeling so old / Though loving a soldier is a ? / Is like being in love with some misty dream / You wait for a letter which may never come / And wait for the time when he'll be back home / For a mother it's torture of what it is to be / The art to wait patiently, for sweetheart / It's only ours, of your agony, of waiting / For love which may never be / Loving a soldier is a hard game to play / It's something he thrives on day after day / But love sent from home means so much to men / Fighting for peace in another man's land
Notes
RK, yellow label, Side One, vocal, 45 RPM, DB-31471-A, RI3198A, © 1971; "Loving a Soldier" (J. Raye), time 2:35; Jackie Raye with the Rhythm Kings. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]