Pvt. Abair, USMC
Coins APC-VA5 · USA
- Artist
- Pvt. Abair
- Title
- Pvt. Abair, USMC
- Release
- Pvt. Abair, USMC / A Voice in the Wind
- Label
- Coins # APC-VA5
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- H. J. Carter
- Genre
- Country · Country · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Lyrics
English: Listen to the sound of the men in the marching marines / March a hundred thousand million miles each day it seems / Go to bed and go to sleep and marching through my dreams / Listen to the sound of the men in the marching marines / Up at 5'oclock everyday before the rising sun... / Slop the deck, scrub the head, and then my work has just begun... / Here comes the man better known at the sergeant / Can't seem to please him makes no difference how hard I try / Yelling every breath in my ear now I don't know why / There ain't a meaner man in the whole world than the sergeant / One, two, three, left one, two, three four, I ain't gonna tell you / God please don't let them die in vain / I hear in the voice in the wind and it's calling me home / Far from the land across the sea / But I can't return until the battle is one / Until the people of this land is free / Men fight and die for a better place to live... / What more than their young lives to give / Trembling and bleeding and crying in pain / God please don't let them die in vain / As in past men have done I must kill / For the right of mankind to live in peace / And I must fight to the death... / For my courage and my strength will never cease.... Why
Notes
Coins APC-VA5, mono, black label with gold print; produced by Abajon Productions, Inc., direct distribution by The Rabbit, P.O. Box 381, Tallahassee, Florida; "Pvt. Abair, USMC" (H. J. Carter), 2:30 (PRP 27431), and "A Voice in the Wind" (H. J. Carter), 2:01 (PRP 27432), both Alpine Music, Inc., ASCAP. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]