MIA (Missing in Action in Southeast Asia)
1973 · Jaycees JC-100 · Walled Lake, Michigan
- Artist
- Me and Bob
- Title
- MIA (Missing in Action in Southeast Asia)
- Release
- MIA (Missing in Action in Southeast Asia) / Nature's Dream
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Jaycees # JC-100
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Walled Lake, Michigan, USA
- Songwriter
- Sandy Osborn
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
MIA (Missing in Action in Southeast Asia) Folk rock, P.O.W. / M.I.A. song. 1973. Michigan, USA. War is over, but the narrator is a prisoner. Please pray for me. Just a young man who went to war - girl still waiting for him. Wear a silver bracelet for the 1300 men unaccounted for.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: A battle much too long has ended so they say / The prisoner's have returned, you waited for that day / But what of my folks they still live in misery / For I'm missing in action, pray for me / I could be prisoner, will family ever know / I may have lost my life but there's no truth it's so / For there's no black or white, oh what my faith may be / For I'm missing in action, pray for me / Thirteen hundred men are unaccounted for / The folks back home need help so don't shut the door / Say you care, please send a prayer... / I'm just a young man who went off to war you see / I left my girl back home and she still waits for me / She keeps a candle burning with her love for me... / You wore a band of silver once in unity / You have to wear it till you hear my destiny / Let others know that you have heard no word from me
Notes
Orange label headed "The Walled Lake Area Jaycees" with the United States Jaycees member shield; JC-100-A, side 1; "MIA (Missing in Action in Southeast Asia)" (Sandy Osborn) by Me and Bob, 3:20, published by Old Orchard, ASCAP; arranged by George Fidler & Bob Cloutier; recorded at DXM; ℗ 1973 S. Osborn. [From the record sleeve and labels]