Our Boys in Vietnam
Gospel Time G.T.D.E. 182 · Knoxville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Don and Earl
- Title
- Our Boys in Vietnam
- Release
- The Vietnam Guitar / Our Boys in Vietnam
- Label
- Gospel Time # G.T.D.E. 182
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Genre
- Country · Country Gospel
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
"The Vietnam Guitar" (Gospel Time # G.T.D.E. 182) - Knoxville, Tennessee. patriotic. criticised protesters / anti-war movement. religious. country music 1Sources1pefagan.com: Don earl↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
"Our Boys in Vietnam" 1Sources1pefagan.com: Don earl↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: What a friend we have in Jesus / I met him in a military hospital...a young boy in his late teens / You could tell he was an American from his speech / He face was covered with bandages, there he was severely wounded / Thousands of miles from home, a boy a few short weeks ago / Walked the happy trails near his home in Tennessee / He had an old guitar beside him on his cot, this is the story he told: / Sir, they tell me some American are critical of my fighting here in Vietnam / This to me hurts more than my wounds, I only meant to join the fighting for freedom / You see sir, my daddy died in Korea, this guitar it travelled with me... / See how it's made - it has six strings, keys, body, head, frets, and a bridge / When I touch the keys I think of the keys to heaven / And I believe in the lord Jesus Christ and I've repented of my sins... / Now that I'm blind my guitar acts as my bible... / If I don't make it sir you may have my guitar / Last request:...write and tell my mum, tell them all of them back home / When the communist bullets hit me, I was singing / What a friend we have in Jesus / Over there in South Vietnam our boys are fighting brave / Some mother there is praying for the lord our country to save / The boys over in Vietnam don't have there mothers there / But god's tender love is for them and he hears and answer's there prayers / If the nation would come back to Jesus, stay on their knees and prayer / Our lord would have mercy upon us, and save our nation…
Notes
Gospel Time G.T.D.E. 182, black and silver labels with a cross above the Gothic logo, "Don and Earl, P.O. Box 181, Knoxville, Tenn."; credited to Don and Earl, "Country Style Gospel". Side A "The Vietnam Guitar" (Red River Dave), BMI, 4:10; side B "Our Boys in Vietnam", BMI, 2:20. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Ladonuel Williams [aka Don], Earl Mays
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]