Mama Hold My Hand
1969 · Rising Sons RS-715 · USA
- Artist
- Troy Seals
- Title
- Mama Hold My Hand
- Release
- Mama Hold My Hand / Ebony and Ivory
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Rising Sons # RS-715
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- T. Seals
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Kentucky born country singer Troy Seals released the deeply emotional blue-eyed soul song "Mama Hold My Hand" (Rising Sons # RS-715). A soldier is off to war, presumably drafted, "to fight for his land". He is wondering "where am I going? When will it end?" As he waits for an army man to call his name to take him off to war, he cries out "mama, hold my hand", and ask her to say goodbye to his father, because he would not want to "see his big boy cry".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Walking out baby in the morning / Walking away from my life, yes I am / Where am I going? When will it end? / Will I ever see my home or friends again? / Mama, mama hold my hand / Cause your boy is going away to fight for his land / Mama, someone, tell papa goodbye / Cause I know he wouldn't want to see his big boy cry / I'm standing here, in this cold evening rain / And I waiting for the man to call my name / And I wonder if I make it, maybe I'll fall by the way / I'm afraid, oh lord, tonight we pray / Mama, mama hold my hand
Notes
Rising Sons RS-715S, stereo, RS1B-15 S, white label marked "Disc Jockey Not for Sale"; "Mama Hold My Hand" (T. Seals), time 4:11, Combine Music Corp.-BMI; Troy Seals, "Produced by: Ray Pennington", "Arranged by Terry Burnside". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American songwriter and singer, born 16 November 1938 in Big Hill, Kentucky. [Source: Wikipedia]