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". "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"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "My Brother Sleeps In Vietnam" (Wedge Records SR-1021, 1966, country; "Dim The Lights (And Draw The Curtain)" is likely the flip under the same catalogue number). No biographical documentation was located. [Source: Discogs]