Medic
1968 · Plantation 2 · USA
- Artist
- Neil Ray
- Title
- Medic
- Release
- Big Fanny / The Medic
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Plantation # 2
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "The Medic" (Plantation Records # 2) by Neil Ray. singer/songwriter. About a soldier on leave (R&R) in Saigon. Tells of his friend, an army medic, killed in action in Haiphong. Impact of war: soldier's perspective. "A young GI soldier on leave in Saigon Was stopped by ? who said pardon young man There's mud on your cap and blood on your sleeve I think that I'll cancel your seven-day leave The soldier said ? now please don't treat me wrong For I've just returned from a place called Haiphong Where the hardships are many and the comfort are few And brave men are dying for me and for you I've come to Saigon just to spend a few days I don't have much money cause I don't draw much pay I won't bother your girls or drink up your wine Just write a few letters to some friends of mine Last week my best buddy was shot through the chest As I held him he told me with his last dying breath Please write to my mother and write to my girl And tell them I love them as I left this world He left those two in peace with tears in their eyes He stayed there three days and went back to his guise Cause he was a medic and his future was made The cry of the wounded would need his first aid"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Big Fanny" b/w "The Medic" (Plantation Records #2, 1968), a Shelby Singleton Productions release published by Shelby Singleton Music / Chu-Fin Music (BMI) and catalogued as country; "Big Fanny" is a parody of Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John". "Neil Ray" is noted elsewhere as a library / production-music pseudonym, but no documented link between that usage and this Plantation release was established, so the identification is left unanchored. [Source: Discogs]