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
Notes
Columbia 4-45265 radio-station promo, "Not for Resale – Radio Station Copy", issued with a white Mono Version label (JZSP 152848) and a turquoise Stereo Version label (JZSS 152849); "Revelation" (B. Braddock), 4:17 with a :05 intro, Tree Pub. Co., Inc. (BMI); produced by Billy Sherrill. Both in red Columbia Records company sleeves. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born Lakeland, Florida, USA (5 August 1940). Currently Nashville, Tennessee, USA