Revelation
1970 · Columbia 4-45265 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Bobby Braddock
- Title
- Revelation
- Release
- Revelation
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Columbia # 4-45265
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Bobby Braddock
- Genre
- Country · Country Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Revelation (Braddock, Bobby) Country-pop, novelty. Weird dream about finding Jesus. Reference to a 19 year old drunk in Vietnam. "Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier walked out of a barroom And he said “I must be seeing things, that bourbon hit me like a baseball bat” In Belfast Ireland a little lady dropped her shovel in her garden... In Washington DC a private secretary’s lips began to quiver And the President just put aside his papers and rose quickly to his feet I lay in a cheap motel in the arms of someone else’s woman When a loud explosion rocked the room and turned the morning into night I jumped out of bed and ran into the street with hardly any clothes on As the sky lit up my heart stood still and I could feel my face was turnin’ white All at once the clouds rolled back and there stood Jesus Christ in all his glory And I realized the saddest eyes I’d ever seen were lookin’ straight at me I guess I was awakened by the penetrating sounds of my own screamin’ And if I never go to hell, Lord, it’ll be because you scared it out of me"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born Lakeland, Florida, USA (5 August 1940). Currently Nashville, Tennessee, USA