My Brother Sleeps in Vietnam
Wedge 1021 · USA
- Artist
- The Roane Brothers
- Title
- My Brother Sleeps in Vietnam
- Release
- My Brother Sleeps in Vietnam / Dim the Lights
- Label
- Wedge # 1021
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- John McLean
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
"My Brother Sleeps in Vietnam" (Wedge Records # 1021). Unknown date. Released in Baltimore, Maryland. Country music. Plight of a soldier's family. A man in the US recalled memories of his brother in a family album. His brother died in Vietnam "white cross in Vietnam...my brother sleeps".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Today I found our family album...among the pages there recorded / Countless memories of you, among the first page of this letter / A photograph of you, of mum, and dad, and my kid brother... / I turned the pages of that album and each leaf old memories... / And there my brother's face before me, a soldier boy in Vietnam / On the last page of the album one small photograph... / This last entry to read silently at night / Tonight the stars shine down from heaven among his loved ones here at home / And all the same stars shine much brighter on his white cross in Vietnam / I'll always have the book of treasure and I'll hold it safely for my own / Between the covers there's a lifetime, my brother sleep in Vietnam
Notes
Wedge Records SR-1021-A, 45 R.P.M., "Reg. U.S.A."; "My Brother Sleeps in Vietnam" (John McLean), time 3:35; Big Wedge Music Pub. (BMI), Inc.; produced by Ralph Johnson. Dark label with log motifs either side of the hole. [From the record sleeve and labels]