Memories of a G.I. in Viet Nam
Sherwood G-1321 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Lance Hill
- Title
- Memories of a G.I. in Viet Nam
- Release
- Memories of a G.I. in Viet Nam / Kentucky, the Blue Grass State
- Label
- Sherwood # G-1321
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Kenneth Hull, Violet Ledford
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Memories of a G.I. in Vietnam (Hill, Lance) Song-poem. Country. Plight. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Memories of a G.I. in Vietnam" - Label: Sherwood Records # G-1321 - Songwriter: Kenneth Hull, Violet Ledford - Song-poem. Country. Plight - Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Patriotic soldier's perspective - Stars and stripes (flag symbol) - Free to worship god (religion)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: The blue hills, the green fields, the blue hills of home / This G.I. is dreaming of the green fields of old / I'm thinking today of the friends I will meet / In the yesterday valley down memory street / For my life is rigged from beginning to end / Well I know that I still live in the heart of my friends / The blue hills, the green fields, the blue hills of home / This G.I. is dreaming of the green fields of old / I'm thinking today of my poor USA / Where the stars and the stripes shall forever wave / Where I can still kneel at the foot of the cross and worship my god... / I'm thankful today for those blue hills of home / For memories of freedoms and the joys I have known / Now when the leaves scatter and fall to the ground / I'll gather these memories...this love I have known / This G.I. is dreaming of the sweet piece of home
Notes
Sherwood Records No. G-1321 (G-1321A), white and red label, P.O. Box 275, Nashville 2, Tennessee; "Memories of a G.I. in Viet Nam" (Kenneth Hull & Violet Ledford), 2:48, Liberty State Music, ASCAP. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]